Alessandro Cadario is an Italian conductor known for his refined, charismatic, and eclectic musical style, and is widely appreciated for his attention to the performance practices of different styles.

Over the course of his career, he conducted renowned orchestras such as Mariinsky Orchestra, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Zagreb Philharmonic, Tatarstan National Symphony, Kraków Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, del Teatro Regio di Torino, del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, del Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, della Fondazione Arena di Verona. From 2016 to 2024, he has been Principal Guest Conductor of I Pomeriggi Musicali, one of the Italian oldest orchestras, based in Milan.

He gained public recognition in 2015 by conducting at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and for the highly acclaimed interpretation of Rossini’s Stabat Mater at Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari (“With Cadario, Rossini is Great” La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno).

The year 2015 also marked his debut at La Scala in Milan, conducting the Sinfónica Juvenil de Caracas, followed in 2016 by a debut in China with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong for Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor K.427.

In 2017, he was chosen to conduct the Christmas concert from the Aula of the Italian Senate, broadcast live by RAI. The following season, he made his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and at the Teatro Regio di Torino with Verdi’s Quattro pezzi sacri, establishing himself as a sensitive conductor of the symphonic-choral repertoire.

In 2019 he leaded Norma by Bellini at the Croatian National Theatre of Rijeka, La Cenerentola by Rossini and The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky at Teatro Massimo of Palermo. He also conducted Cimarosa’s Missa pro defunctis during the season of the Fondazione Arena di Verona.

The 2020-21 season marked his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival with Il Viaggio a Reims and a return to the Teatro Carlo Felice with Donizetti’s Elisir d’amore and a new production of Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti in a double bill with Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona.

In the 2021-22 season, he was invited to the Royal Opera House in Muscat and the Festival della Valle d’Itria, conducting the world premiere of Opera Italiana by Campogrande. He also returned to the Teatro Regio di Torino and the Teatro Massimo di Palermo for the world premiere of Tutino’s opera L’eredità dei giusti, for the Requiem for the victims of the mafia, and conducted Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

In the 2022-23 season he returned at Teatro Filarmonico conducting the Orchestra of Arena di Verona, he made his debut at Rome Opera Theatre in the frame of Caracalla Festival conducting Prokofiev’s Cinderella and he returned at Teatro Massimo di Palermo.

In 2024 he returned in the season of Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Carlo Felice, Krakow Philarmonic Orchestra for the Handel’s Messiah and at the 88th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival for the world premiere of Jeanne Dark by Vacchi. He also conducted at Rossini Opera Festival, at MITO SettembreMusica Festival, he returned to Teatro Petruzzelli, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Royal Opera House in Muscat and debuted at Teatro Bellini di Catania and at Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège. In the last season he debuted with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, with Orchestra of Accademia del Teatro alla Scala and returned to Teatro dell’Opera di Roma for Strauss’s Die Fledermaus.

In the current season, he debuted with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, conducted a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Caracalla Festival, La Traviata at the Teatro Coccia in Novara, and Puccini’s Le Villi at the Fondazione Arena di Verona, receiving great critical acclaim. His upcoming engagements include the debuts at the Opéra de Marseille with The Barber of Seville, in the symphonic season of the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, and in the circuit of Emilia Romagna Theatres with a new production of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri.

He graduated in Orchestra Conducting at Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan and at Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, where he received two First Class Honors, with Distinction. He also completed diplomas in Violin, in Choral Conducting and in Composition.

He is passionate about astrophysics and quantum physics.

November 2025