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; Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Battaglia
di Legnano at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Il Barbiere di
Siviglia at the Opéra de Lille.
His recent and 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, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento; and Orchestre Philharmonique
de Monte-Carlo.
He will also conduct Britten's War Requiem at the Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino; and Mozart's Requiem at the Chorégies d'Orange festival.
April 2025