Andrea Molino - conductor

Andrea Molino once more conducts the Australian Opera Ballet Orchestra, with the Australian Opera Chorus and Opera Australia's Childrens' Chorus. After the successful première of Puccini's Tosca in November he returns to the Sydney Opera House to conduct La Bohème. The first evening of the series will be for the last night of the year: La Bohème is the New Year's Eve event at the Sydney Opera House.

Andrea Molino, conductor and composer, was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich. As a conductor, he opened the 2013 season of Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House with Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera with the direction of La Fura dels Baus; he later conducted the same production at the Melbourne Arts Center. In Sydney in 2011 he had already conducted Verdi's Macbeth and Floyd's Of Mice and Men and, in 2014, Rossini's Il Turco in Italia. 

Future plans with Opera Australia include Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mr Molino will also conduct Tosca in Melbourne; Il Turco in Italia in Brisbane and a symphonic concert in Dresden.

In 2009, as Artistic Director of the World Venice Forum, he curated the Festival The Garden of Forking Paths. At the Basilica dei Frari he conducted the Orchestra della Fenice in his multimedia concert Of Flowers and Flames, for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. His Three Mile Island, on the nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, was first performed in 2012 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe and received the Music Theatre Now Award. His last opera, - there is no why here -, was premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in April 2014; further performances will follow in 2015 in Antwerp and Rotterdam for de Singel, Vlaamse Opera and Operadagen Rotterdam.

His recordings are published in CD and DVD by Stradivarius, Milan, ECM, Munich, and Naïve, Paris. His compositions are published by RAI Trade, Nuova Stradivarius and Ricordi.