Stage Director

Marcos Darbyshire was born in Córdoba, Argentina, where he trained as a pianist, specializing in chamber music and lied accompaniment. In 2008, he moved to Germany, completed an internship at the Frankfurt Opera, and became a student at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg, where he studied opera stage direction. From 2012 to 2016, he worked as an assistant stage director at Opera Vlaanderen (Belgium), collaborating with renowned directors such as Peter Konwitschny, David Alden, David Hermann, Robert Carsen, Tatjana Gürbaca, Calixto Bieito, Mariame Clément, Kornel Mundruczó, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, among others, while also overseeing numerous revivals. His freelance work as an assistant director and revival director has taken him to houses like the Staatstheater Nürnberg, La Fenice (Venice), Teatro Real (Madrid), Palau Reina Sofia (Valencia), B

Bayerische Staatsoper, the Salzburg Festival, and the Liceu Barcelona.

Marcos Darbyshire has directed three Donizetti operas, including L’elisir d’Amore for a livestream on OperaVision in 2021. In the 2021/22 season, he staged Nabucco (Staatstheater Mainz) and María de Buenos Aires (Theater St. Gallen).

In the 2023/24 season, he directed Denis & Katya at the Kammeroper of the Theater an der Wien, as well as a Rossini double bill, La Scala di Seta/Il Signor Bruschino, for Opera Zuid (The Netherlands). In the 2024/25 season, following the audience-acclaimed Austrian premiere of G. F. Haas’ opera Liebesgesang, he will present an open-air production of Puccini’s Tosca at the Theater St. Gallen.