Mario Pontiggia

Born in Las Flores (Buenos Aires), he is an architect and régisseur. He was Production Director of the Monte Carlo Opera, Artistic Director of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Opera and currently directs the Alfredo Kraus International Foundation. He has directed L'incoronazione di Poppea, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, Giulio Cesare, La grotta di Trofonio, El rapto en el serallo, La flauta mágica, L'Italiana in Algeri, Norma, Puritani, Macbeth, I Due Foscari, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Un Ballo in maschera, Simon Boccanegra, Otello, Tristán e Isola, Carmen, Hoffman Tales, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Boris Godunov, Ariadna en Naxos and La voz humana, among other productions. He has done so in Argentina (Buenos Aires and La Plata), in Italy (Cagliari, Florence, Genoa, Messina, Modena, Naples, Palermo, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Rovigo, Sassari, Taormina, Trapani, Treviso, Turin, Venice, Verona), Portugal (Lisbon, Villa Real), Spain (Cordoba, Madrid, Oviedo, Santander, Santiago, Seville, Tenerife), Greece (Athens), France (Nice, Sanxay, Toulouse), Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich) and Japan (Hamamatsu, Nagoya, Osaka, Shibuya, Tokyo). He opened the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco (2000) and the new MMF / Opera di Firenze (2014). At the Teatro Colón he also directed La serva padrona, Dido and Aeneas (Golden Hall), Escorial, La clemenza di Tito, Boris Godunov and Elektra (ACE Award 2007).