The critically acclaimed conductor Francesco Angelico was born in Caltagirone, Sicily, in 1977. Since 2017 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, including his interpretation of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and the Schumann-Brahms cycle, has been highly valued by audiences and critics.

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

Future engagements include: Norma at the Opera National de Bordeaux, Thomas Larcher's Das Jagdgewehr at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, a new production of Der Freischütz at the Göteborg Opera and Simon Boccanegra (concert version) in Kassel. He recently made his debut with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra conducting Beethoven's Ninth symphony on a Japan tour and returned to the Latvian National Opera in Riga for a revival of Elisir d'amore.

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. During this time he worked as Bernasconi's assistant in the Swiss Radio's "900 Passato e presente" concert series for contemporary music. His committment to contemporary music continues to play a special role in his repertoire.

December 2024