Francesco Ommassini – conductor

Francesco Ommassini was appointed musical director of the Orchestra Regionale del Veneto Filarmonia Veneta. He did his debut in 2009 with two new production of Traviata and Barbiere di Siviglia with the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta. Afterwards the successful performance of the Coronation Mass by Mozart at Teatro Fraschini in Pavia and a concert with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra led to the invitation to conduct during the next season. Mr Ommassini opened the 2011 edition of the Verona Contemporanea Festival at the Teatro Filarmonico with the Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona. In September he conducted the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano; more recently he conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Novara, Rigoletto and La Sonnambula at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso.

Plans include: La Sonnambula in Ravenna and Ferrara; Il Turco in Italia in Treviso and Ferrara; and a series of concerts at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.