Diego Ceretta is the
Principal Conductor of the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana (Florence).
Born in 1996, Diego Ceretta
graduated in violin at the age of 18 with top marks from the Milan
Conservatoire. He studied composition and graduated in conducting at the
age of 21 with top marks and honors under Daniele Agiman, also from the
Milan Conservatoire. He attended the conducting courses held by Gilberto
Serembe at the Italian Conducting Academy and participated as a full
student in the conducting masterclasses held by Luciano Acocella and
Daniele Gatti at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.
He made his debut in December
2016 with the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra. He then made his debut at
the Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2020 he was the only Italian finalist
at the “Guido Cantelli” Conducting Competition in Novara.
Assistant to Daniele Gatti at
the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome for the world premiere of Giorgio
Battistelli’s opera Julius Caesar, Diego Ceretta subsequently
started an intense symphonic activity, which led him to conduct concerts
with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as part of the 85th
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival, the Orchestre National de
Montpellier (with Alexandre Tharaud), the Filarmonica Toscanini in
Parma, the Orchestra del Teatro Regio in Turin, the Orchestra dell'Arena
di Verona, the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, the Orchestra
Sinfonica Siciliana, the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, the
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana,
the Krakow Philharmonic and the Orchestra Sinfonica Rossini of Pesaro.
He has also collaborated with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra for a
performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Fabio Luisi.
After
a series of successful concerts with the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana, he
was appointed their Principal Conductor in 2023.
He
also made his debut at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina
Franca with a symphonic concert with the Orchestra of the Teatro
Petruzzelli in Bari; at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with an
opera-symphonic concert; and at the Wexford Festival Opera with
Donizetti's Zoraida di Granata.
Diego
Ceretta also regularly conducts the operatic repertoire: La
Sonnambula at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Il Matrimonio
Segreto in Ancona; a new production of Macbeth (directed
by Pierluigi Pizzi) for the Rete Lirica delle Marche; Paisiello's Don
Chisciotte with the Orchestra of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples at
the Louvre Museum in Paris; L'Elisir d'amore at the Teatro
Comunale in Bologna; and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro
Regio in Parma.
His
upcoming engagements include: concerts with the ORT-Orchestra della
Toscana in Italy and on tour (for the opening of the Turku Music
Festival), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre National
de Montpellier, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano (also for the MiTO
Festival, with a world premiere of a new cantata by Fabio Vacchi),
Orchestra dell'Opera di Roma, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna,
Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e
Trento.
He
will also conduct La Battaglia di Legnano for the Verdi Festival
in Parma; Britten's War Requiem at the Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra de Lille; and Attila
in concert form at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
August 2024