Marco Arturo Marelli

Marco Arturo Marelli (born 21 August 1949) is a Swiss set designer and stage director who has worked at European opera houses for opera and ballet. He designed sets for ballets by John Neumeier, and for premieres of the operas Thomas Chatterton by Matthias Pintscher at the Semperoper in Dresden and Medea by Aribert Reimann at the Vienna State Opera (2010).

Career Born in Zürich on 21 August 1949, Marelli trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich to be a graphic designer. He assisted several set designers at the Wiener Volksoper and the Vienna State Opera, including Günther Schneider-Siemssen. August Everding engaged him in 1973 as an assistant of the Staatsoper Hamburg. Marelli created there sets for the ballet company of John Neumeier.

Marelli was awarded a Danish Reumert Prize in 2009. He was made an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera in 2010.

Work Marelli created stage sets, and from the early 1981s also directed the following operas: 2010: Aribert Reimann – Medea (premiere, Vienna / Frankfurt)