Stefano Poda (born in Trento, 1973), is an Italian theatre and opera stage director, set designer, costume designer, choreographer, lighting designer.

In his quest for aesthetic and conceptual unity, Stefano Poda always designs direction, choreography, sets, costumes, and lightning: this is such a personal seal, immediately recognisable, founded on a visionary, multi-level imprint, balanced between ancient images and contemporary art. His ultimate aim is to erase the barriers between different genres and disciplines, in order to create an original, single, all-embracing experience: not simply entertaining, rather an integral emotion, as only a total work of art can provide. His way of doing theatre is not a mere story-telling, but a complex, plastic art, able to blend together sculpture, painting, architecture, music and dramaturgy.

• La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (1994)
• Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1995, with multiple revivals in Spain and Latin America)
• Così fan tutte by Mozart (1995 in Santander; 2010 in Mahon with Barbara Frittoli)
• Nabucco by Verdi (in 1995 for the Teatro Saõ Carlo in Lisbon, broadcast by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal)
• Die Zauberflöte by Mozart (1996, with multiple revivals in Spain and Latin America)
• Anna Bolena by Gaetano Donizetti (1997, in Palma de Mallorca, then in Barcelona (1998) and in Oviedo, 2000)
• Falstaff by Verdi (1998, recorded by Televisión Española, then a new production in 2009, for Jerez de la Frontera and Opéra Royal de Wallonie)
• Aida by Verdi in multiple productions (1998, 2001, 2005)
• Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini (1998 and 2002)
• La serva padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1998)
• Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns (1999 with Dolora Zajick)
• Maria Stuarda by Donizetti (1999, then 2012 in Graz, revival in 2013 in Bilbao)
• Macbeth by Verdi (2001)
• La forza del destino by Verdi (2003)
• Il trovatore by Verdi (2004)
• Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (2000)
• The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti (2000)
• Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito (2001)
• Faust by Charles Gounod (2003 and 2008)
• Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart (2007)
• Médée by Luigi Cherubini (2008)
• Carmen by Georges Bizet (2008)
• Thaïs by Jules Massenet (2008, in Teatro Regio di Torino)
• Il concilio de’ pianeti by Tomaso Albinoni (2009, for the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua)
• Hin und zurück by Paul Hindemith and L’Heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel for the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona (2010)
• Rigoletto by Verdi in the Teatro Verdi of Padua 2010
• La forza del destino by Verdi as opening title in 2011, Teatro Regio di Parma
• Il trittico by Puccini, 2011 in the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires
• Leggenda by Alessandro Solbiati, worldwide premiere for the Teatro Regio di Torino, 2012
• Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti in the Teatro Verdi of Padua, 2011
• Tosca by Puccini for the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt (2012)
• Il trovatore by Verdi in the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, 2012
• Nabucco by Verdi for the Teatro Verdi of Trieste (2012).
• Attila by Verdi for the St. Galler Festspiele 2013.
• Don Carlos by Verdi for the Theater Erfurt, 2013
• Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner as opening of the 77th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, under the baton of M° Zubin Mehta
• Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano for the Korea National Opera, 2015
• Faust by Charles Gounod, for the Teatro Regio di Torino, 2015 – also in 2017 in Tel Aviv and 2019 in Liège.
• Otello by Verdi, for the Hungarian State Opera, 2015
• Ariodante by Georg Friedrich Händel in the Opéra de Lausanne, 2016
• Der Titan, a choreography on Mahler's symphony No. 1 for the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, 2016
• L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti for the Opéra national du Rhin of Strasbourg, 2016
• Fosca by Antônio Carlos Gomes, Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, 2016
• Il trovatore by Verdi for the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, 2016
• Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky for the Korea National Opera, 2017
• Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti for the Opéra de Lausanne, 2017
• Turandot by Puccini for the Teatro Regio di Torino, 2018
• Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod for the NCPA in Peking, 2018
• Ariane et Barbe-bleue by Paul Dukas for the Théâtre du Capitole of Toulouse, 2019
• Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck, in the Roman Theatre of Plovdiv, 2019
• Les contes d’Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach for the Opéra de Lausanne, 2019
• Tosca by Giacomo Puccini für the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in München, 2019
• Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi as opening title in the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, 2020
• Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, new production for the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, 2021