BIOGRAPHY

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Hispano-Brazilian stage director and set designer Allex Aguilera studied Opera Singing at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, but also International Business. Since 1993, he has worked as stage manager and assistant stage director at Grand Théâtre de Genève and Opéra national de Paris. In 1995, he moved to Barcelona, where he studied and obtained a degree in Film Directing. 

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In 2005, he is invited to join the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, in Valencia, as Production Coordinator and Head of Stage Direction, as well as creating and organizing the Stage Management team. Since then, he has worked with several artists including Chen Kaige, Werner Herzog, Lorin Maazel. Plácido Domingo, La Fura dels Baus, Zubin Mehta and Valery Gergiev, among others. Regularly, Allex works with the Centre Placido Domingo in productions with young singers.

 

Aguilera has signed opera productions such as Verdi’s Otello in Rome and Tbilisi; Puccini’s Turandot (as associate director) at Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Palau de les Arts and Festival de Ópera La Coruña; Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Liège; Donizetti’s La Favorite (French version) at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Villa-Lobos’ Yerma at the Festival Amazonas de Ópera in Manaus, Brazil; Bizet’s Carmen at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo; diverse productions of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at Palau de les Arts (conducted by Zubin Mehta), ABAO Bilbao Opera and Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla; Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci at the Monte-Carlo Opera; Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (staging, scenography and light designer) at the Festival Internacional de Ópera Alejandro Granda in Lima; Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste; and Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer at the Palau de la Música de Valencia, among others.
 
Allex Aguilera debuted as set designer in 2014, at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, signing sets and staging of Carmen, conducted by Isaac Karabtchevsky.

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As associate director, he collaborated with La Fura dels Baus, staging the operas Les Troyens by Berlioz, conducted by Valery Gergiev, and directing revivals of Die Walküre and Siegfried by Wagner, at the Teatro de la Maestranza.

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Allex Aguilera’s 2023/24 season started with a new production of Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro de la Maestranza. Following, he signed lights and staging of Strauss’ Salome, at the Palau de la Música de València. In Georgia, he staged Verdi’s Otello, at the Tiblisi State Opera, conducted by Fabrizio Maria Carminati and Zaza Azmaiparashvili. He debuted at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, with Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi, staging and sets. At the end of the season, another important house debut with Verdi’s Otello, at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, conducted by Daniel Oren. 

 

In the 2024/25 season, he will stage a revival of La Maestranza’s Tristan und Isolde at the ABAO Bilbao. At the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, he will give Donizetti’s La Favorita. In Portugal, Aguilera stages the opera Felizmente há Luar by Alexandre Delgado, in Lisbon and several cities.    
 
His next commitments include a new production of Otello by G. Verdi, at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, and a revival of Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Cervantes de Málaga.