Luca Micheletti

Luca Micheletti was “born to art” and the fourth-generation heir to the Micheletti-Zampieri theatre legacy that has its roots in the Carri di Tespi wandering theatre of the mid XIX century.

Micheletti started his acting training at a very early age with I Guitti Theatre Company, for which he has eventually become principal director.

After graduating cum laude in Literature and Theatre Studies (Università degli Studi di Milano e Università IUAV di Venezia) he obtained a PhD in Italianistics at Università “La Sapienza” di Roma with a research on the Renaissance forbidden theatre. Meanwhile, his acting and directing activity never stopped and rewarded him with some of the highest prizes in the field.

At the age of 25, he is awarded the Premio Ubu for his performance in Brecht’s Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (also Italian Critics Prize 2011) for which he worked both as dramaturge and actor side by side with Umberto Orsini, and received a nomination to the Premio Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano. Four years later, he receives the Premio Internazionale Luigi Pirandello for his achievements in the theatrical field.

Praised as one of the most original, eclectic and visionary theatrical minds of his generation and while fruitfully pursuing his staging and acting activities for the major Italian Theatres (ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Teatro di Roma, CTB Centro Teatrale Bresciano, Teatro Franco Parenti di Milano, Teatro Stabile di Napoli and Napoli Teatro Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto), besides working with Orsini (writing the dramaturgy and directing Le memorie di Ivan Karamazovbased on Dostoevsky), Micheletti approached the methodologies of other great Maestros. He worked with Luca Ronconi at the Biennale di Venezia Teatro and with Marco Bellocchio as main character for his film Pagliacci (2013). Micheletti’s filmography also boasts another acting success in Italian Gangstersby Renato De Maria. Both the last cited films appeared at the Venice International Film Festival.

Luca Micheletti is also an acclaimed baritone. After having studied music in his childhood, his encounter with Maestro Mario Malagnini, marks the beginning of his career as professional opera singer. Unanimous approval welcomed his performances of the cornerstones of the operatic repertoire by Verdi, Donizetti, Mozart and Bizet, under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Muti, among others.

Parallel to his work on stage and on set, Micheletti has constantly pursued a prolific editorial activity based on translations, theatre adaptations, dramaturgies, as well as his own original works. Among others, his studies include works about B. Vian (GAM 2008), B.-M. Koltès (Editoria&Spettacolo 2009 e Diabasis 2013), B. Brecht (Ponte Sisto 2011), T. Accetto (Bulzoni 2011), C.-F. Ramuz (GAM 2012), F. Kafka (Sedizioni 2014), K. Mann (Sedizioni 2015), Molière (Falsopiano 2018), H. Ibsen (Cue Press 2019). His first novel Tutta la felicitàand his dramatic anthology Scenari di Belfortwere released by Sedizioni (2015, 2017).