Marco Angius has conducted orchestras such as the Tokyo Philharmonic,
Ensemble Intercontemporain, London Sinfonietta, Orchestre de Chambre de
Lausanne, Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, Orchestre de
Lorraine, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Muziekgebouw/Bimhuis in
Amsterdam, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra del Teatro
La Fenice, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Teatro
Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Orchestra
dell'Arena di Verona, LaToscanini di Parma, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano,
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento,
ORT-Orchestra della Toscana, I Pomeriggi Musicali.
Constantly present at major European contemporary music festivals, in
2016 he opened the Teatro La Fenice Season with Aquagranda by
Filippo Perocco (2017 Abbiati Prize) and the following year the Venice
Music Biennale with Stockhausen's Inori. He conducted Janáček's Káťa
Kabanová at the Teatro Regio di Torino under the direction of Robert
Carsen and Luigi Nono's Prometeo in the new critical edition at
the Teatro Regio di Parma, Dusapin's Medeamaterial at the
Comunale di Bologna (Premio Abbiati 2018), Hindemith's Sancta Susanna
and Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana at the Teatro Lirico di
Cagliari. At the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, he conducted Alessandro
Solbiati's Il suono giallo (Abbiati Prize 2016), Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob
Lenz, Bruno Maderna's Don Perlimplin and Sciarrino's Luci
mie traditrici under the direction of Jürgen Flimm. In 2018, he
opened the Maggio Fiorentino season at the Florence Opera House with
Puccini's Le Villi. With the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della
RAI di Torino, he has conducted in most of the editions of RAI Nuova
Musica from 2007 to the present, also performing with the orchestra on an
important tour in Russia in 2015.
His most recent productions include Pelléas et Mélisande at the
Teatro Regio di Parma with LaToscanini; Sciarrino's Aspern at the
Teatro La Fenice; Janáček's La volpe astuta, Luca Mosca's L'Italia
del destino and Silvia Colasanti's La metamorfosi at the
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Hosokawa's Hanjo with the Orchestra
Haydn di Bolzano e Trento; Malipiero's Ecuba at the Teatro
Olimpico di Vicenza; Mahler's Symphony no. 6 by Mahler with the
Arena di Verona Orchestra at the Auditorium in Milan as part of the Mahler
Festival; Nono’s Prometeo in Venice for the Biennale Asac; the
double bill The Seven Deadly Sins by Weill / Dido and Aeneas
by Purcell at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Valli in Reggio
Emilia; the double bill Bluebeard’s Castle by Bartók / La
porta divisoria by Carpi at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Cappelli's
Anita and the double bill Procedura penale by Chailly / La
smorfia by Bettinelli in Spoleto; Carmina Burana with the
Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Dallapiccola’s Il
prigioniero (concert version) at the Teatro Verdi in Padua;
Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona;
and My name is Floria by Guastella at the Teatro Valli in Reggio
Emilia.
Formerly principal conductor of the Ensemble Bernasconi of the Accademia
Teatro alla Scala since 2011, since 2015 he has been the musical and
artistic director of the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, with which he
has conducted the complete Symphonies of Beethoven and Schubert and
recorded numerous discs with music ranging from Bach (Die Kunst der
Fuge) to Brahms, Bruckner, Wagner up to contemporary composers such
as Donatoni (Abyss), Sciarrino (Altri volti e nuovi for
Decca, Musiche per il "Paradiso" di Dante), Castiglioni (Quodlibet),
Dallapiccola (An Mathilde), Henze (Reinventions), Manzoni (Parole
da Beckett - Abbiati Prize 2023).
His extensive discography of over thirty albums includes works by
Sciarrino (Luci mie traditrici, Cantare con silenzio, Le stagioni
artificiali, Studi per l'intonazione del mare), Nono (Risonanze
erranti and Prometeo), Schoenberg (Pierrot lunaire),
Battistelli (L'imbalsamatore), Adámek (with the Ensemble
Intercontemporain for Wergo). In 2007 he was awarded the Amadeus Prize for
Mixtim by Ivan Fedele, a composer whose complete works for violin
and orchestra he recorded with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della
RAI, while in 2023 he received the Abbiati Prize for the album Parole
da Beckett, with music by Giacomo Manzoni.
Three books have been published: Riverberazioni (Il Poligrafo,
2022), Come avvicinare il silenzio (Il Poligrafo, 2020), Del
suono estremo (Aracne, 2014).
May 2025