The
charismatic Italian conductor Marco Armiliato, considered one of
today’s most respected opera conductors, is frequent guest in the
world’s most prestigious opera houses. His recording of Verismo arias with Renée Fleming won a Grammy Award in 2010.
Since his debut in 1995 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venezia conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia and at the Wiener Staatsoper with Andrea Chenier and
his collaboration with Luciano Pavarotti in concert performances,
Maestro Armiliato began a successful career that brought him in the
leading opera houses in the world, including Metropolitan in New York,
Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the
Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Opéra National de
Paris, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro Real de Madrid, Gran Teatre del
Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome,
Arena in Verona.
The
Italian Maestro also performs extensively in North America,
particularly with the Metropolitan Opera in New York where, since his
debut in 1998, he has conducted: Andrea Chénier, Anna Bolena, Il trovatore, La bohème, Stiffelio, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Sly, Aida, Ernani, Turandot, Rigoletto, Cyrano de Bergerac, Francesca di Rimini, La fille du régiment, La rondine, La sonnambula and Lucia di Lammermoor.
Among the engagements in the past seasons in european theatres: Tosca, Rigoletto, La Traviata,Turandot and La Bohème (Bavarian State Opera); Aida, Madama Butterfly and Tosca (Arena di Verona); La Traviata, Andrea Chénier and Tosca (Vienna State Opera); La Fille du Régiment, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Otello (Paris Opéra); La Fanciulla del West and La Traviata (Zurich Opernhaus); La rondine (ROH
Covent Garden). Marco Armiliato conducted the Orchestra of the
Teatro alla Scala for the Expo 2015 opening concert in Piazza Duomo in
Milan.
His recent engagements include: La Bohème, Il Trovatore, Manon Lescaut, Aida, Cyrano de Bergerac (Metropolitan Opera in New York); La bohème, Roméo et Juliette, Simon Boccanegra, Manon Lescaut, La Traviata, new production of Il Trovatore, new production of I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Vienna State Opera); Lucia di Lammermoor (Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona); Manon Lescaut (Amsterdam Opera); Otello and La Fanciulla del West (Zürich Opernhaus); Otello (Peralada Festival); Werther (New National Theater, Tokyo); La Traviata, Andrea Chénier (Bayerische Staatsoper); Madama Butterfly (Chicago); Aida, Tosca and Madama Butterfly (Arena di Verona); La Fille du Régiment (Paris Opera)
M° Armiliato conducted a new production of La Traviata and Simon Boccanegra at Opernhaus in Zurich; new production of Faust at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Elisir d’Amore, Don Pasquale, Nabucco and La Bohème at the Wiener Staatsoper; Lucia di Lammermoor at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Manon Lescaut (concert version), Lucrezia Borgia, Tosca and a Gala concert at the Salzburger Festspiele; Tosca in Munich and London; Mozart's Requiem, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, a series of Gala Concert, at the Arena in Verona; La Rondine in Florence; a symphonic concert in Ravello; Norma in Madrid; Il Trovatore in Piazza del Plebiscito and a series of lyric concerts at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Turandot in New York; gala concerts at La Scala in Milan, Bolshoj Theatre in Moscow.
Highlights from the recent seasons: Otello, Manon and La Fanciulla del West in Zurich; La Traviata, Andrea Chénier, Tosca and a gala concert in Munich; Madama Butterfly at the Teatro Real in Madrid; Rigoletto in Chicago; La Traviata, L’Elisir d’amore, Simon Boccanegra, Manon Lescaut, Don Pasquale, Turandot, Aida, Il Trovatore (new production), La Fanciulla del West, Otello, Samson et Dalila, Rigoletto, Tosca, Andrea Chénier and the Gala in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna; La Bohème, Manon Lescaut, Aida, La Fanciulla del West and Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac at the Metropolitan in New York; Il Trovatore in Chicago; La Traviata at La Scala in Milan; Adrana Lecouvreur at the Festivall in Salzburg.
Plans for
the currentt seasons include Tosca, L'Elisir d'amore and Rigoletto in Vienna; Turandot, Fedora and La Traviata in New York; Ernani at the Opera in Rome; La Traviata, Aida, Carmen and Turandot at the Arena in Verona; Fedora at La Scala in Milan; Tosca in Berlin and a series of Gala Concerts in Barcelona, New York, Sevilla.
February 2022