Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland conducting a festive concert in Wexford and Dublin

Francesco Cilluffo

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Saturday, December 20, 2025

Francesco Cilluffo

National Symphony Orchestra Ireland

Gala Concert

Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut
with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland
conducting a festive concert in Wexford and Dublin

Concert program

Music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giacomo Puccini,

Alfredo Catalani, Ottorino Respighi, Franz Lehár, Charles Gounod, and others

Wexford, National Opera House, December 20

Dublin, National Concert Hall, December 22

Francesco Cilluffo (conductor)

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Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland conducting a festive concert in Wexford and Dublin 15/12/2025 15.50.00
Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut with the Orchestre philharmonique de Marseille conducting Sibelius, Elgar and Catalani 03/12/2025 10.09.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts an Opera Gala with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Wexford and Dublin 16/10/2025 15.23.00
Principal guest conductor Francesco Cilluffo conducts Delius' The Magic Fountain at the Wexford Festival Opera 08/10/2025 16.22.00
Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut at the LAC conducting the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Emma Dante's double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana/La voix humaine, Agostina Smimmero stars as Mamma Lucia 10/09/2025 10.22.00
Julija Vasiljeva and Antonello Palombi star in Puccini's Turandot at the Staatstheater Mainz, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 20/08/2025 13.24.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts a new production of Puccini’s Tosca in Klosterneuburg 30/06/2025 12.07.00
Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut at the Staatstheater Mainz conducting a new production of Turandot. Antonello Palombi stars as Calaf 12/05/2025 11.43.00
Konstantine Kipiani and Loriana Castellano star in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 20/02/2025 16.01.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts Beethoven and Britten with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo 27/12/2024 10.41.00
Jennifer Rowley and Dongho Kim star in Puccini’s Tosca at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 05/12/2024 15.56.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts Mahler, Bartok and Rota with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto in Padua and Milan 28/10/2024 12.05.00
Principal Conductor Francesco Cilluffo conducts an Opera gala with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Wexford and Dublin 16/10/2024 10.29.00
Lavinia Bini and Matteo Mancini make their debut at the Wexford Festival Opera starring in Mascagni’s Le Maschere under the baton of Francesco Cilluffo 01/10/2024 13.17.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts Busoni, Martucci and Respighi with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini and Francesca Dego at the Festival Respighi in Bologna 20/09/2024 16.12.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci in a new production at Opera Holland Park in London 01/07/2024 16.22.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts Busoni and Respighi with Francesca Dego and LaToscanini at the Toscanini Festival in Parma 07/06/2024 10.11.00
Francesca Tiburzi makes her UK debut as Tosca in a new production at the Grange Festival. Francesco Cilluffo returns to the festival to conduct the Puccini masterpiece. 06/06/2024 10.31.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts Sibelius, Bruch and Sciortino with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Piacenza and Parma 20/02/2024 14.35.00
Deniz Uzun, Abramo Rosalen, Leon Kim and Dongho Kim star in a new production of Boito's Nerone for the season’s opening of the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 05/02/2024 18.03.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts a new production of Verdi's Falstaff at the Theater Kiel 05/12/2023 15.47.00
Leonardo Caimi and Devid Cecconi star in Marco Tutino's La Ciociara at the Wexford Festival Opera, Francesco Cilluffo conducting and Rosetta Cucchi directing 20/10/2023 18.05.00
Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut at the Puccini Festival conducting Madama Butterfly in a new production by Pier Luigi Pizzi Bruno Taddia stars as Sharpless 24/07/2023 10.21.00
Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut at the Volksoper in Vienna conducting Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Volksoper in Vienna 21/03/2023 16.23.00
Gezim Myshketa stars in the title role of Verdi’s Macbeth, new production at the Grange Festival , Francesco Cilluffo conducting and Maxine Braham directing 07/06/2022 15.06.00
Leon Kim stars in Catalani’s Edmea at the Wexford Festival Opera, Francesco Cilluffo conducting and Julia Burbach directing 18/10/2021 15.05.00
Fabrizio Beggi and Leon Kim star in Aida for OperaLombardia, in the renowned production by Franco Zeffirelli conducted by Francesco Cilluffo 06/11/2019 11.41.00
Jenish Ysmanov stars as Rodolfo in La Bohème in Tirana, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 21/12/2015 15.31.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts a symphonic concert with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma 10/12/2015 16.01.00
Angela Nisi and Davide Giusti star in Tutino’s Le Braci at the Opera di Firenze, Francesco Cilluffo conducting. Gregory Bonfatti saved the premiere singing from the pit. 04/11/2015 17.43.00
Angelo Villari, Mariangela Sicilia, Annunziata Vestri, Gianluca Buratto star in Mascagni’s Guglielmo Ratcliff in Wexford, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 20/10/2015 16.14.00
Dario Solari, Gevorg Hakobyan, Alessandra Gioia, Cristina Melis star in new production of Nabucco in Kiel, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 07/08/2015 18.24.00
Angela Nisi, Davide Giusti and Francesco Cilluffo open the Martina Franca Festival starring in the world première of Marco Tutino’s Le Braci 13/07/2015 16.32.00
Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut with the New Israeli Opera and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra conducting L’Elisir d’amore at the Jerusalem Opera Festival 19/06/2015 16.54.00
Daniela Mazzucato, Max René Cosotti and Clemente Antonio Daliotti perform in Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Campiello at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 08/04/2015 17.49.00
Nicola Alaimo saves the day jumping in L’Elisir d’Amore at the Teatro Comunale in Modena, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 17/03/2015 15.21.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts L’Elisir d’Amore in Modena and Parma 12/03/2015 12.43.00
Anna Corvino stars Verdian Gala at the Festival Verdi in Parma, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 16/10/2014 15.22.00
Alessandra Marianelli, Clemente Antonio Daliotti and Luca Dall’Amico star in Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Campiello conducted by Francesco Cilluffo for the season’s opening night at the Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (new production by Leo Muscato). 18/09/2014 18.12.00
Kenneth Tarver and Matteo Macchioni star in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Genoa, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 13/06/2014 11.58.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts La Cambiale di matrimonio at the Teatro Regio in Parma, then on tour in Reggio Emilia 18/02/2014 11.55.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts a new production of Tancredi for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo in Italy. Making her debut in the title role, Raffaella Lupinacci. 21/11/2013 11.58.00
Rudy Park is Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana in Sassari, Francesco Cilluffo conducting 23/10/2013 11.33.00
Badri Maisuradze sings in a Verdi Gala at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, with his colleagues and pupils from the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. Francesco Cilluffo conducts the recently founded orchestra of the Opera Centre. 03/10/2013 17.57.00
Stage Door’s artists star in Cilea’s L’Arlesiana for the season’s opening night at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi. Francesco Cilluffo conducts Cilea’s rare masterpiece; in the cast, Annunziata Vestri, Mariangela Sicilia, Stefano Antonucci and Valeriu Caradja. 24/09/2013 17.39.00
Cinzia Forte and Francesco Cilluffo in concert with the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana for the opening of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival and at the Santa Fiora in Musica Festival. 16/07/2013 15.50.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts Duruflé’s Requiem with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino. Rosa Bove and Giulio Mastrototaro in the cast. 29/11/2012 11.49.00
Francesco Cilluffo conducts the world premiere of his song cycle ‘The Land to Life Again’ at the Festival Incontri in Terra di Siena 26/07/2012 16.53.00

Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland conducting a festive concert in Wexford and Dublin

15/12/2025 15.50.00

Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut with the Orchestre philharmonique de Marseille conducting Sibelius, Elgar and Catalani

03/12/2025 10.09.00

Francesco Cilluffo conducts an Opera Gala with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Wexford and Dublin

16/10/2025 15.23.00

Principal guest conductor Francesco Cilluffo conducts Delius' The Magic Fountain at the Wexford Festival Opera

08/10/2025 16.22.00

Francesco Cilluffo makes his debut at the LAC conducting the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Emma Dante's double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana/La voix humaine, Agostina Smimmero stars as Mamma Lucia

10/09/2025 10.22.00

Julija Vasiljeva and Antonello Palombi star in Puccini's Turandot at the Staatstheater Mainz, Francesco Cilluffo conducting

20/08/2025 13.24.00