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 conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo in several
concerts and tours and the Ecomusic Big Band at Carnegie Hall in New York.
At the Milan Conservatoire, he conducted Federico Ghedini’s opera Billy
Budd. In 2019, he made his debut in the Milano Classica Concert
Season and at the MiTo Festival. He also conducted the premiere of Alberto
Cara’s opera La notte di Natale in Savona and Modena. In 2020 he
made his debut with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and 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 was then engaged in Cagliari for concerts with the Orchestra del
Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, in Pesaro with the Orchestra Sinfonica G.
Rossini and in Bolzano for a CD recording with the Orchestra Haydn (music
by Rossini, Respighi and Mendelssohn). He also collaborated with the
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra for the performance of Mahler’s Symphony
No. 2 with Fabio Luisi. He then conducted La Sonnambula at
the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; a series of concerts with the Haydn
Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento as part of the Sacred Music Festival;
concerts with the Krakow Philharmonic in Krakow and at the Rossini
Festival in Bad Wildbad; Il Matrimonio Segreto in Ancona; a new
production of Macbeth (directed by Pierluigi Pizzi) for the Rete
Lirica delle Marche; a series of symphonic concerts with the ORT-Orchestra
della Toscana, the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Orchestra del
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in the main symphonic program of the Festival
del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra of the Teatro Petruzzelli in
Bari at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca. He recently
conducted a gala concert at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro;
Donizetti’s Zoraida di Granata at the Wexford Festival Opera;
Paisiello’s Don Chisciotte with the Orchestra of the Teatro San
Carlo di Napoli at the Louvre Museum in Paris; L’Elisir d’amore at
Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
His upcoming engagements include: several concerts and productions
with the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana, both in Italy and abroad; the debut
at the Teatro Regio di Parma with Il Barbiere di Siviglia and at
the Verdi Festival il Parma with a new production of La battaglia di
Legnano. Future symphonic engagements include: debuts in the seasons
of LaToscanini in Parma, Teatro Regio in Turin, Orchestra dell’Arena di
Verona at Teatro Filarmonico, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale in Bologna,
Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and Orchestre national de Montpellier
Languedoc-Roussillon.
December 2023