Andrea Molino - conductor

Andrea Molino has established a reputation as a conductor in great demand on the international scene. 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 works, Verdi’s ‘popular trilogy’ (Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La traviata), Macbeth and Un Ballo in Maschera, as well as Alban Berg’s Lulu and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District; and works by Mozart and Haydn, as well as Mahler and Richard Strauss; Rossini as well as Schoenberg, Webern and Stravinsky. Mr. Molino opened the 2014 Melbourne Spring Season and the 2015 Sydney Summer Season for Opera Australia respectively with Puccini's Tosca and La Bohème and the NYE Gala at the Sydney Opera House. For Opera Australia he had previously conducted Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (directed by La Fura dels Baus) and Macbeth and Rossini's Il Turco in Italia among others. In 2014 he conducted his own opera - there is no why here - at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; the piece was then performed in 2015 at deSingel in Antwerp for the OperaXXI Festival. Particularly interesting also his collaboration with La Fenice in Venice where in the past seasons he conducted: world première of Bruno Maderna’s Requiem for the concert season opening night 2010; Heiner Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities for Music Biennale opening night; world première of Mosca’s Signor Goldoni and Ambrosini’s Il killer di parole.

Mr. Molino recently conducted the world première Aghet with Dresden Simphoniker, a project in commemoration of the Armenian genocide in Berlin.

Mr. Molino conducted, among others, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Bochum Symphonic, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Dresden Symphonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival, as well as appearing at the 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, Opera National de Nancy, Staatstheater Darmstadt, RomaEuropa Festival, Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart, Zagreb Biennale and Hellerau Dresden.

Andrea Molino recorded for labels as Stradivarius (Milan), Naïve (Paris), ECM (Munich) and Dynamic (Genoa), and his performances and recordings have been programmed by the major international broadcasting companies.

Mr. Molino returns to Opera Australia where last January he conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Plans include: series of concerts with the Royal Schottish National Orchestra in Glasgow and for Opera Australia King Roger (Sydney and Melbourne).