Andrea Molino - conductor

Andrea Molino has established a reputation as a conductor in great demand on the international scene.

Conductor and composer, he is equally at ease in 20th and 21st century music (with numerous world premieres) and in the traditional operatic and symphonic repertoire: he has conducted, among other, Verdi's „popular trilogy“ (Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, andLa Traviata), Macbeth and A Masked Ball as well as Alban Berg's Lulu and Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, Mozart and Haydn as well as Mahler and Richard Strauss, Rossini as well as Schönberg, Webern and Stravinskij. He opened Opera Australia‘s 2013 season with Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (directed by La Fura dels Baus) at the Sydney Opera House where he had made his debut in 2011 with Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men and Verdi's Macbeth; the production was subsequently presented in Melbourne. Recently he returned to Sydney with the Australian Premiere of Rossini's Il Turco in Italia.

He opened the 2010 concert season of Teatro La Fenice in Venice with the world premiere of Maderna’s Requiem; in La Fenice in 2005 he had opened the Music Biennale with Heiner Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities and conducted the world premiere productions of Mosca’s Signor Goldoni and Ambrosini's Il Killer di Parole. He conducted among others the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Dresdner Sinfoniker (including the Palestine Tour, 2013), the BBC SSO Glasgow, the OSL Nancy, The Queensland Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival, Vienna Konzerthaus, Sydney Festival, Berliner Festspiele in the Philharmonie in Berlin, Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Opéra national de Nancy, Staatstheater Darmstadt, RomaEuropa Festival, Schauspielhaus Zurich (with Goebbels' Industry and Idleness), Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Zagreb Biennale, Hellerau Dresden.

His recording are published in CD and DVD by Stradivarius (Milan), Naïve (Paris), ECM (Munich) and Dynamic (Genoa). His performances and recordings have been programmed by the major international broadcasting companies.

Plans include: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Carmen and King Roger in Sydney; revivals of King Roger in Melbourne, where he also will conduct La Bohème; a series of concert in Glasgow with the Royal Scottisch National Orchestra.