Giuseppe
Finzi holds degrees in Piano (Conservatorio Piccinni in Bari), in
Orchestra
Conducting and Chamber Vocal Music (Conservatorio Verdi in Milan) and a
Master
in Conducting (Accademia Chigiana in Siena). After a long experience in the music staff of the Teatro
alla Scala,
where he worked alongside Riccardo Muti and the most important names of
the
international scene, Giuseppe Finzi started his career of conductor
making his
debut in 2003 with Tosca, which was followed by productions
of La Traviata, L'Elisir d'amore, Madama
Butterfly, Rigoletto, Carmen and Così fan
tutte (the
latter at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan with the soloists and the
orchestra of
the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala).
In 2008 he made his debut at
the San Francisco
Opera, conducting La Bohème, and began an important
collaboration with this opera house, becoming Resident Conductor from
2011 to
2015. During the seasons at the San Francisco Opera he conducted,
amongst the
other: Aida, Turandot, Entführung aus dem
Serail, Faust, La
Fanciulla del West, Carmen, Tosca, Rigoletto, La Traviata,
Madama
Butterfly as well as series of symphonic concerts. In the
latter
seasons he conducted new productions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia,
La
Bohéme and Don Pasquale with great success
both of
critics and public.
In 2012 Carmen at
the
Deutsche Oper Berlin marked his German debut and the beginning of an
international career followed by The Nutcracker and L’Elisir
d’Amore at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; new productions
of Idomeneo at
the Theater Lübeck; Rigoletto at the Teatro Massimo in
Palermo; Madama
Butterfly at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; the return to
the
Deutsche Oper Berlin with Carmen, that he also conducted in
Menorca; Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Fille
du
Régiment at the Liceu in Barcelona; Il Barbiere
di
Siviglia at the La Maestranza in Sevilla; Turandot at
the
Bregenz Festival; Nabucco at the Opéra de Monte
Carlo; Les Pêcheurs de perles, Pagliacci and Il
Tabarro at the Korean National Opera.
Most
recently he conducted the European premiere of La Ciociara
by
Marco Tutino at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; a new production of
Rossini's La Cenerentola in Ancona; Les
pêcheurs de
perles at the Nice Opéra; Cavalleria Rusticana &Pagliacci and
Die Lustige Witwe in Genoa; Turandot in
Darmstadt
and in Prague; Madama Butterfly in Madrid, San
Sebastian,
Essen and Cosenza; La Bohème on tour in Oman with the Opera
de Montecarlo; Rigoletto in
Tenerife; Die Lustige Witwe and Ernani
at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Turandot in
Steinbruch; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Turin; Lucia
di
Lammermoor, La Bohème and Simon
Boccanegra in Essen; La
Forza del
destino (concert version) in La Coruna; Il
Trovatore
in Menorca; Il Turco in Italia in Liège and Tosca
at the Oper Köln.
Plans include: Madama Butterfly in Malaga; La
Bohème at the Oper Köln and L’Elisir
d’amore on tour in Japan with the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
August 2024