Marc Rosich is a Catalan librettist and director based in Barcelona. He is the artistic director of the “\u00d2pera de Butxaca i Nova Creaci\u00f3”, an ensemble dedicated to chamber opera. His plays and adaptations have been awarded in Barcelona in theaters such as the “Teatre Nacional de Catalunya” or in the” Teatre Lliure”, and in Madrid in theaters such as “Centro Dram\u00e1tico Nacional”.
In recent months he has consistently written and directed the musical theater: \u00c0ries de reservat, \u00bfQu\u00e9 fue de Andr\u00e9s Villarrosa?, A tots els que heu vingut, Renard (Barcelona Critics’ Awards Best Play for Children 2017 \/ Butaca Award Best Play for Children 2017) and A m\u00ed no me escribi\u00f3 Tennessee Williams. As a librettist, he participated in collaborative projects such as Office of postidentical living (Neuk\u00f6llner Opera). In the midst of his plays, he can also be found in productions such as LIMBO, La dona vinguda del futur (Butaca Award Best Play for Children 2014), Rive Gauche, Car Wash (Staatstheater Stuttgart \/ Teatre Romea), N&N, Party Line, Surabaya (Finalist Fundaci\u00f3 Romea Award for New Plays) and Copi and Oca\u00f1a in Purgatory.
In collaboration with Calixto Bieito, he directed B\u00fcchner’s Leonce and Lena (Residenz Theater, Munich), Shakespeare’s Forests (Barbican, London), Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real (Goodman Theatre, Chicago), Calder\u00f3n’s The Great Theater of the World (Theater Freiburg), Voices (Betty Nansen Treatret, Copenhagen), Don Carlos (Mannheim Schillertage), Tirant lo Blanc (HAU Hebbel am Ufer \/ Frankfurt \/ Teatre Romea, Barcelona Critics’ Award to Best Adaptation 2008), and Houellebecq’s Platform (Edinburgh Festival \/ Teatre Romea). His opera credits include The Song of the Women of the River (Carlus Padrissa, LA FURA DELS BAUS, Lucerne Theater, Switzerland \/ K\u00f6ln Theater), Bazaar Cassandra (Neuk\u00f6llner Oper), Java Suite (Theater Basel, Switzerland), Lord Byron (Staatstheater Darmstadt \/ Gran Teatre del Liceu), and La Cuzzoni (Staatstheater Darmstadt).
As a director he also staged Granado’s one-act zarzuelas Picarol & Gaziel (Palau de la M\u00fasica), Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor (Parking Shakespeare) B\u00fcchner’s Woyzeck (Parking Shakespeare), the contemporary opera 4Carmen (Festival de Peralada, Neuk\u00f6llner Oper), and Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas (Palau de la M\u00fasica).<\/p>\n\n\n\n