Francesco Cilluffo
Francesco Cilluffo is Principal Guest Conductor at the Wexford Festival Opera. Among his most recent successes are Gloria by Cilèa for the opening of the season of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari; Verdi’s Requiem, Macbeth, Falstaff and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut at the Grange Festival, leading the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Mascagni’s Isabeau and Puccini’s Le Villi at Opera Holland Park, Halévy’s La Tempesta, Catalani’s Edmea, Mascagni’s Guglielmo Ratcliff, Alfano’s Risurrezione at the Wexford Festival Opera, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly and La Bohème at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La voix humaine (with Anna Caterina Antonacci) and Aida for OperaLombardia, symphonic concerts with LaToscanini in Parma (including the Italian premiere of Absolute Jest by John Adams), RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Dublin) and the Bremer Philharmoniker. Future engagements include: Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Volksoper in Vienna and Tosca at the Grange Festival.