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 Hollnder), the Wiener Staatsoper (Schweigsame Frau, Gianni Schicchi, La Sonnambula, Zauberflte, Cardillac, Falstaff), the Dresdner Semperoper (Tristan und Isolde, Capriccio, Ariadne auf Naxos), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Pellas et Melisande) the Opra de Paris, the Thtre du Chatelet, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London as well as the opera companies of Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne, Stasbourg and Bonn.  

In addition to the baroque repertoire and the Mozart, Verdi 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 (State Opera Vienna), Schoenbergs Jakobsleiter (Staatsoper Wien) and the world premieres of Matthias Pintscher's Thomas Chatterton (Dresden) as well as Hans-Jrgen von Bose's Die Leiden des jungen Werhers (Hamburg).  

Marco Arturo Marelli has been especcially acclaimed for his directing rediscovery of formerly forgotten operas such as Amadis by J.Chr. Bach (Hamburg), Semele by G.F.Hndel (Ludwigsburg Festival), Des Teufels Lustschloss by Franz Schubert (Zurich/Vienna Festival) and Le vin herb by Frank Martin (Zurich).  

He has been working with such renowned conductors as Sir Roger Norrington, Christoph von Dohnnyi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Albrecht, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Lothar Zagrosek,Gerd Albrecht and Franz Welser-Möst.

Mister Marelli's future projects will include new productions in Helsinki (Der Rosenkavalier), Tokyo (Fidelio) and Vienna (Freischtz, Capriccio).