Marco Arturo Marelli was born in Zurich and completed his artistic education in his hometown. Several engagements followed as assistant in Vienna, Salzburg and with the State Opera in Hamburg, where he then made his debut as stage director. Following engagements and productions include the Hamburgische Staatsoper (Falstaff, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Der fliegende Holländer, Radamisto and Rosenkavalier), the Vienna State Opera (Schweigsame Frau, Gianni Schicchi, La Sonnambula, Zauberflöte, Cardillac, Falstaff, Capriccio, Medea, La Fanciulla del West), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Pélléas et Mélisande and Ägyptische Helena), the Semperoper Dresden (Tristan und Isolde, Capriccio, Ariadne auf Naxos), Royal Opera House Stockholm (Turandot and Zauberflöte), the Opéra National de Paris, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London as well as the opera companies of Tokyo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne, Graz, Strasbourg and Bonn. In addition to the baroque repertoire and the Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Richard Strauss and Puccini operas, Marco Arturo Marelli has also directed an interesting amount of modern and contemporary works such as Ligeti's Le grand macabre (Zurich), Henze's Prinz von Homburg (Cologne), Hindemith's Cardillac and Schoenberg’s Jakobsleiter (Vienna State Opera) and the world premieres of Aribert Reimann’s Medea (Vienna), Matthias Pintscher's Thomas Chatterton (Dresden) as well as Hans-Jürgen von Bose's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (Hamburg). Marco Arturo Marelli has been especially acclaimed for his directing rediscovery of formerly forgotten operas such as Amadis by J.Chr. Bach (Hamburg), Semele and Radamisto by G.F. Händel (Ludwigsburg Festival), Des Teufels Lustschloss by Franz Schubert (Zurich/Vienna Festival) and Le vin herbé by Frank Martin (Zurich). He has been working with such renowned conductors as Sir Roger Norrington, Christoph von Dohnànyi, Philippe Jordan, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Albrecht, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Lothar Zagrosek, Gerd Albrecht, Franz Welser-Möst, Fabio Luisi and Michael Boder.