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Francesco Cilluffo - conductor
Conductor and composer, he graduated from the Turin Conservatoire, the Guildhall
School of Music and the King’s College in London. Among his most notable appearances
as conductor: Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules at the Teatro Massimo
in Palermo; a cycle of concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago (Chile);
Mozart’s Requiem (Levin edition), Duruflé’s Requiem op. 9 and
Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with the Orchestra Filarmonica di
Torino (in the framework his 3-year long collaboration with the orchestra); Verdi’s Il
Trovatore for the AsLiCo.; concert tour with the Orchestra del Teatro
Lirico in Cagliari and the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana. He obtained a great success
conducting Cilea’s L’Arlesiana for the opening of the 2013-2014
season of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi (just released in CD and DVD by Dynamic
worldwide). He then conducted: a Verdi Gala at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
in Moscow and at the Verdi Festival in Parma; Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana at
the Nuovo Teatro Comunale in Sassari; a new production of Rossini’s Tancredi for
the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (Pavia, Cremona, Como and Brescia), featuring the Orchestra
I Pomeriggi Musicali; a new production of Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio at
the Teatro Regio in Parma and in Reggio Emilia; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at
the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; a new production of Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Campiello for
the season’s opening of the Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and at
the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; L’Elisir d’amore for the opening night
of the season at the Teatro Regio in Parma and at the Teatro Comunale in Modena.
Future engagements include: the world première of Marco Tutino’s opera Le
braci (based on Sándor Márai’s novel Embers) at the Festival
della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, and then at the Maggio Musicale in Florence;
a new production of Nabucco at the Opernhaus in Kiel; a new production
of Mascagni’s Gugliemo Ratcliff at the Wexford Festival Opera; La
Traviata at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège and in Charleroi.
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