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Pedro Ribeiro

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Portuguese stage director and designer. Holds degrees in Stage Direction and Acting from the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE-IPP, Porto). He has also completed the Opera Stage Directing Course from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Harp course at the Oporto Music Conservatory, and the Visual Arts Secondary Course in the specialized arts school of Soares dos Reis. 

He has an award-winning career as a director, set & costumes designer, and an extensive teaching career in subjects related to theatre, music, musicals, and opera, in Portugal, England, Italy, France, Austria, and Denmark. 

From 2004 to 2011 he worked with the international award-winning company Teatro de Marionetas do Porto as costume designer, graphic designer, and assistant director for João Paulo Seara Cardoso. It was with João Paulo that he worked on his first venture into the opera realm in “Encantos de Medeia” by António José da Silva and he owes him the incentive to pursue a career in the staging of multidisciplinary performances. Since then, he has been directing productions ranging from opera to theatre, from musicals to site-specific works among a myriad of Portuguese and international authors.

Since 2007, he has been the Artistic Director of Companhia de Teatro Os Quatro Ventos, a repertoire theatre company focused on "pushing" Portuguese dramaturgy into the 21st century and engaging younger audiences.

He joined the Royal Opera House young artists program in 2011 where he directed several shows receiving excellent reviews from the English press. The Times Newspaper appraises his production of Montsalvagte’s El Gato con Botas “From first note to last it’s a riot of puppetry. Ribeiro is careful to tell the story deftly and clearly. Children will be mesmerised but so will adults.”; the international magazine Bachtrack about his ROH directing début with Berlioz’s song cyle Les Nuits d’été: “Ribeiro succeeded in impressing upon his audience the beauty and pain of death, life and love”.

He assisted some of the world’s leading stage directors like Kasper Holten, Robert Carsen, Laurent Pelly, Danielle Abbado, John Copley, John Fuljames, Jonathan Kent and had the opportunity to work with Ambrogio Maestri, Angela Gheorghiu, Bryan Hymel, Charles Castronovo, Daniela Barcellona, Ermonela Jaho, Erwin Schrott, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Krassimira Stoyanova, Leo Nucci, Lisette Oropesa, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Michael Spyres, Patrizia Ciofi, Placido Domingo, Roberto Alagna, Simon Keenlyside, Piotr Beczala, Vittorio Grigolo, among many others. Currently he works for the ROH as a freelance stage director in new productions and revivals and as a coach with singers from the JPYAP. Between 2012 and 2017 he was an assessor for the Off West End Awards nominating shows and artists for the OFFIES. 

For the European Network of Opera Academies ENOA, he staged at Gulbenkian Foundation a lab for a new opera “Outra Margem” (Nuno da Rocha / Rita Fernandes); was the guest director for the residency “Landscape of new Music Theatre and opera - New Staging Languages”, LOD (Gent) / Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels) and participated in the 3D Mapping for Opera course at the Verona Opera Academy , Italy.

His recent directing credits, which often feature his designs, include: An Account Of The State Of That Place winning project of the TW Puppetry Festival; The Passion, J.S.Bach; Goldilocks & The Three Pigs for The Opera Story; the new musicals A Caminho, Andaluz; La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Docteur Miracle, and Elisir d'Amore for All'Opera Company; Figados de Tigre, António Marinheiro and Fear & Misery in the Fall of Democracy for CT4V; The Sound of Music & Phantom of the Opera Concert Staging for arenas; in 2020 and in 2021 he was the revival director for Richard Eyre’s production of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House. 

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