Corrado Rovaris - conductor

Music Director of the Philadelphia Opera Company
Principal Guest Conductor of I Virtuosi Italiani
Music Director at the Artosphere Festival Orchestra.

After his debut with Galuppi’s Il filosofo di campagna for the AsLiCo circuit in Italy, he initially devoted himself to the baroque repertoire, getting later close to composers such as Mozart, Haydn, Paisiello, Rossini, Donizetti, Bizet, Verdi, Puccini. Corrado Rovaris has conducted at the Santa Fe Opera Festival, the Japan Opera Foundation, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca and the Festival Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi. Mr. Rovaris also collaborated with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestra del Maggio Fiorentino in Florence, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. M° Rovaris instigated and conducted the Spanish premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-act masterpiece Ainadamar; the production by Mexican director Luis de Tavira was presented at the Alhambra Palace for the Granada Festival and was then revived at the Santander Festival. Mr. Rovaris recently conducted Powder her face by Adès and Nabucco in Philadelphia; the first modern performance of Spontini’s cantata Gott segne den König at the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi; Mozart’s La Betulia Liberata in Wroclaw; Don Pasquale in Santa Fe; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opera Company in Philadelphia; Roberto Devereux in Toronto; La Traviata at the Opéra de Lausanne and in Philadelphia where he also conducted world’s première of Schynder’s Charlie Parker's Yardbird and Don Carlo; symphonic concerts at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and in Oviedo.

With the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai he recorded Nino Rota’s cello concertos and the recording of Pizzetti’s cello concerto will be soon released for Sony Classical.

Future plans include:  L’Elisir d’amore, Turandot, Tancredi as well as Higdon’s Cold mountain and a series of symphonic concerts at the Philadelphia Opera Company; Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy and in Santa Fé; Garcia’s Don Quichotte in Oviedo; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Monte Carlo; and a series of concerts at the Artosphere Festival and in Milan at the Teatro dal Verme with the Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra.