Giulio chazalettes biography definition

Italian opera director and former actor

Giulio Chazalettes (born 1930) is an Italian opera director and former actor.

Biography

He was born in Verona^[1] (according to another source in Torino^[2]).

He was taught in music by his mother, a German pianist. After having settled in Milan, he was accepted by the Piccolo Teatro's acting school.

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Soon he also joined the company, and appeared in Sacrilegio massimo by Stefano Landi, and replaced Giorgio De Lullo in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Later he went to Dresden to work as an actor and assistant director. Returning to Italy, he finished his musical education at the Florence conservatory.

Chazalettes then started his career as an opera director.

Biography examples

In 1976, he debuted at La Scala with Massenet's Werther (conducted by Georges Prêtre). His debut at the Vienna State Opera came in 1980 with Verdi's Attila (conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli). Chazalettes also worked for the Chicago Lyric Opera and