Daniele Salvo is an Italian director and actor.
He graduated the National School of Luca Ronconi in Turin in 1994 and perfected at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon and at the Teatro di Roma.
He worked for about 17 years with Luca Ronconi as his main collaborator director and as an actor in important roles.
In the last fifteen years he directed many shows in Italy and abroad with great protagonists of the scene (Giorgio Albertazzi, Ugo Pagliai, Umberto Orsini, Elisabetta Pozzi, Zingaretti, Piera degli Esposti, Monica Guerritore, Gigi Proietti and many others) including “Ajax” and “Oedipus at Colonus” at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse (then tour in Athens, at the theater „to Skolion” directed by Irene Papas) “Oedipus Rex “(at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse), “The Libation Bearers –The Eumenides” of Aeschylus (staged last year for the Centenary of the Foundation Inda, at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse, then tour to Cyprus for the International Festival of Ancient Drama), “King Lear”, “Othello”, “The Tempest” (also at the Teatro Romano Verona), “Julius Caesar” at the Globe Theatre in Rome, “Eugene Onegin” Pushkin at the Teatro Stabile di Torino, “Mozart and Salieri” at Teatro Goldoni Venice, “Prague Spring” to the Prague National Theatre, “The Rope-walker” by Jean Genet at the International Festival of Naples, and many other shows .
He has also directed two operas, one at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste and the other at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
He was associated director in addition to Luca Ronconi, even for Jacques Lassalle (Goethe’s Iphigenia at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza), Jean Pierre Vincent (former director of the Comedie Francaise in Paris), Andrei Konchalovskij and Marco Tullio Giordana.
He studies different vocal techniques since over 17 years and he teaches acting and directing in different institutions in Italy.
At the Greek Theatre in Syracuse he directed „The Libation Bearers-The Eumenides” by Aeschylus for the Centenary of the Foundation INDA (National Institute of Ancient Drama). The cast included more than 100 actors (including Piera degli Esposti, Ugo Pagliai, Paola Gassman, Elisabetta Pozzi, Francesco Scianna). The show has had unprecedented success at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse (7,000 spectators every day for a record collection), at the Ancient Theatre of Pompeii and in Cyprus at the International Festival of Ancient Drama.
„Oedipus the King”, set up in Syracuse, holds the record of collection of one hundred years of the Foundation (EUR 1.7 million).
„DIONYSUS” , his latest project, starting from the text of „The Bacchae” by Euripides, is a international coproduction, a performance made from two versions from the collaboration of two theatres: Vascello Theatre from Rome, Italy, and The State Theatre from Constanta, Romania.
Many foreign visitors who have visited the Greek Theatre of Syracuse have complained about the impossibility of enjoying these performances
worldwide. This is the reason why Daniele Salvo has produced a version of the Bacchae of Euripides accessible to everyone, no matter his language or culture.
It is a performance that arrives in the heart of the myth, through a contemporary show, exciting and incredibly actual.