Intro-it-it
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. 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); Nono's Prometeo in Venice
for the Biennale Asac; the diptych The Seven Deadly Sins by Weil /
Dido & Aeneas by Purcell for the Teatro Comunale in Bologna
and the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia; the
diptych Il Castello del Duca Barbablù by Bartók / La porta
divisoria by Carpi at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste; Anita
by Cappelli and the diptic Procedura
penale
by Chailly / La
smorfia
by Bettinelli in Spoleto.
Future projects
include: symphonic
concerts with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and the Krakow
Philharmonic.
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).
September 2024