Genoa born Marco Armiliato, is one of today’s most sought after opera
conductors and is a frequent guest in the world’s most prestigious opera
houses.
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.
He was nominated as the Musical Director for the Arena di Verona Festival
(2022-2023).
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 La Sonnambula, Anna Bolena, La
fille du régiment, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Trovatore,
Stiffelio, Aida, Ernani, Rigoletto, La
Traviata, Nabucco, Macbeth, Sly, Francesca
da Rimini, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca,
Turandot, La Fanciulla del West, La Rondine, Manon
Lescaut, Andrea Chénier, Fedora, Carmen, Cyrano
de Bergerac and Les contes d'Hoffmann.
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.
His long association with the Salzburg Festival saw him conducting such
different works such as Lucrezia Borgia, I Capuleti ed i
Montecchi, Manon Lescaut, Tosca and Adriana
Lecouvreur.
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.
Recent engagements include: La Traviata, Fedora, La
Bohème, Turandot, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Tosca
at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Andrea Chénier, Tosca,
and La Bohème in Monte Carlo; Macbeth in Naples; La
Bohème, Turandot, Don Pasquale, Simon Boccanegra,
Il Trovatore, Carmen, and Tosca in Vienna; Don
Pasquale in concert form in Prague; Madama Butterfly and Manon
Lescaut in Zurich; Turandot in Paris; Aida and Manon
Lescaut in Munich; his debut at the Semperoper in Dresden with Tosca;
La Gioconda in Madrid; and a symphonic concert at the Teatro di San
Carlo in Naples.
Notable engagements for the 2025/2026 season include: Andrea Chénier
in concert form in Salzburg; Tosca and Werther at the
Opernhaus Zurich; Rigoletto at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Adriana
Lecouvreur at the Opera in Bilbao; I Puritani, Madama
Butterfly, and La Traviata at the MET in New York; Nabucco
and Madama Butterfly at the Wiener Staatsoper; and Tosca
at the Bayerische Staatsoper.
August 2025