He has forged his outstanding 22-year career both on the main stages of Europe and at smaller theatres in his native country Italy, during which time he has been stage director, stage designer, costume and lighting designer, singer, dancer, actor, scriptwriter and teacher. He has worked together with artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Zubin Mehta, Mirella Freni, Luca Ronconi, Andrei Tarkovsky or Zhang Yimou. He has worked as stage director for the main Italian theatres as La Scala in Milan, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Regio in Turin, San Carlo in Naples, Carlo Felice in Genoa, La Fenice in Venice, in addition to the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro. Outside Italy, he has worked at the opera houses of Philadelphia (USA), Montpellier and Avignon (France), as well as the Bunka Kaikan Theatre in Tokyo and Seoul Arts Center. In Spain, his productions have been staged at the Opera House in A Coruña, Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao and Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. He has a longlasting collaboration with Teatro alla Scala, where he inaugurated multiple seasons with productions of Attila (2018), Tosca (2019), A rivedere le stelle (2020) and Macbeth (2022). Besides his operatic engagements, he was the general manager-artistic director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía from 2015 to 2017 and is currently Artistic Director of the Teatro Nazionale di Genova. He was Head of the Arte Scenica School of the Teatro Stabile in Turin and taught stage direction and stage design at the IUAV University of Venice. Between 2013 and 2017 he was also artistic director of the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo, Palau de les Arts young artists program. In October 2024 he was awarded a Honoris Causa degree by the Department of Humanities – University of Turin. Thanks to his close collaboration with D-Wok, Davide directed the film The Opera! Arias for an Eclipse with Paolo Gep Cucco, screened for the first time in October 2024, during the 19th edition of the Rome Film Festival. A completely new operation in Italian cinema, as it combines opera, cinematographic language and the latest innovations in technology.