Mario Martone is a theater and film director, among the most beloved Italian artists by audiences and critics. His career began at a very young age, in the 180s, with the founding of the Falso Movimento group with which he produced shows that fused elements of theater, cinema, music and visual arts. He later founded the Teatri Uniti company with which he combined his stage activity with filmmaking, debuting with Morte di un matematico napoletano (Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1992. It was only the first in a prolific series of film successes that over the years saw Martone experiment with increasingly ambitious languages and formats. He directed the permanent theaters of Rome (where he created the India Theater) and Turin. His landing in opera dates back to 1999 with a successful production of Mozart's "Così fan tutte" at the San Carlo in Naples, subsequently revived twice under the direction of Claudio Abbado. Ultradecennial is the relationship with the Teatro alla Scala. Among the successes of La Scala's activity are "Cavalleria rusticana" and "Pagliacci" in 2011, Verdi's first opera "Oberto conte di San Bonifacio", Giordano's triptych of operas, "La cena delle beffe", "Fedora" and "Andrea Chénier", which opened the 2017/2018 season, Musorgsky's "Chovanščina", winner of the Abbiati prize for best opera performance in 2019, and the new production of "Rigoletto" in June 2022.