The critically acclaimed conductor, Francesco Angelico was born in Caltagirone, Sicily in 1977. Since 20217 he has held the position of General Music Director of the Staatstheater Kassel. From August 2024, he will take over the title of Chief Conductor of the Staatsorchester Kassel. His conducting has been highly valued by audiences and critics, including his interpretation of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung and the Schumann-Brahms cycle.

Francesco Angelico regularly conducts at leading opera houses around the world, including Tokyo Opera City, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Stuttgart Opera, Graz Opera, Opera du Capitole Toulouse.

Future engagements include a new production of Der Freischütz at the Göteborg Opera and a Madama Butterfly in Ancona. In the 2024/25 season he will return to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich to conduct Thomas Larcher’s Das Jagdgewehr and to the Latvian National Opera in Riga with a revival of Elisir d’Amore by Gaetano Donizetti. In December 2024 he will make his debut with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Japan.

In the 2023/2024 concert season Francesco Angelico conducted the Orchestra del Teatro comunale di Bologna, Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Robert Schumann Philharmonie, the Federal Youth Orchestra on tour through Germany and Slovenia.

Francesco Angelico was chief conductor of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck from 2013 to 2017 and of the Tyrolean State Theater from 2015 to 2017. He received the Austrian Music Theater Prize in 2016 for his production of Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. In 2011 he won the German Conductors’ Prize.

After completing his cello studies at the Conservatory in Modena in 2001, he began his conducting studies with Giorgio Bernasconi at the Lugano University of Music in 2003, which he completed in 2006. During this time he worked as Bernasconi’s assistant in the Swiss Radio’s “900 Passato e presente” concert series for contemporary music. The cultivation of contemporary music continues to play a special role in his repertoire.

December 2024