Since his debut in 1995 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venezia conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia and subsequnetly at the Wiener Staatsoper with Andrea Chénier and through his collaboration with the Three Tenors, Maestro Armiliato‘s outstanding career has taken him to the leading opera houses in the world, including the Metropolitan in New York, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, the Opéra National de Paris, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro Real de Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro alla Scala and the Salzburg Festival. In 2022 he was nominated as the Musical Director for the Arena di Verona Festival.

Mo. Armiliato has a long connection with the opera houses in North America and especially with the Metropolitan Opera in New York where, since his debut in 1998, he has conducted nearly 500 performances in different titles such as Andrea Chénier, Anna Bolena, Il trovatore, La Bohème, Stiffelio, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Sly, Aida, Ernani, Turandot, Rigoletto, Cyrano de Bergerac, Francesca da Rimini, La fille du régiment, La Rondine, La Sonnambula and Lucia di Lammermoor.

His long and prolific association with the Wiener Staatsoper, where, to date, he had conducted over 300 performances, has earned him the title of Ehrenmitglied der Wiener Staatsoper in 2019.

Past productions include Tosca, Rigoletto, La Traviata,Turandot and La Bohème at the Bayerische Staatsoper; La Traviata, Andrea Chénier and Tosca at the Wiener Staatsoper; La Fille du Régiment, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Otello at the Opéra National de Paris; La Fanciulla del West and La Traviata at the Opernhaus in Zurich; La Rondine and Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Fedora and Andrea Chénier at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, with whom he also conducted the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala for the Expo 2015 opening concert in Piazza Duomo in Milan. His long association with the Salzburg Festival saw him conducting such different works as Manon Lescaut, Lucrezia Borgia, Tosca, Adriana Lecouvreur and I Capuleti ed i Montecchi.

Marco Armiliato has many recording to his name with some of the major singers of our time, such as Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmannand Rolando Villazon and Marina Rebeka. His recordings Verismo Arias with Renée Fleming won a Grammy Award in 2010 and Romantic Arias with Jonas Kaufmann the Diapason d’or in 2009.

Among his recent and future engagements: La Traviata, Fedora, La Boheme, Turandot, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Tosca at the Metropolitan in New York; Andrea Chénier and Tosca in Monte Carlo; Macbeth in Naples; La Boheme, Turandot, Don Pasquale, Simon Boccanegra, Il Trovatore, Carmen, Barbiere di Siviglia, Nabucco, Madama Butterfly and Adriana Lecouvreur in Vienna; La Rondine, Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut in Zurich; Turandot in Paris; Aida and Manon Lescaut in Munchen; his debut at the Semperoper in Dresden with  Tosca; Adriana Lecouvreur in Bilbao and Gioconda and La Rondine in Madrid.

March 2024