Maurizio Benini - conductor
After his debut at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, he started a career at the
highest levels with many commitments in Bel Canto and Verdi's repertoire in such
theaters as the Paris Opera, the Staatsoper in Vienna, the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden in London, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the
Metropolitan Opera, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Théâtre du Capitole in
Toulouse, the La Fenice in Venice and in festivals such as the Glyndebourne
Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy.
Many are his recordings with the Opera Rara label and with Deutsche Grammophon.
The Italian Maestro was the Principal Conductor at the Filarmonici del Teatro
Comunale di Bologna between 1984 and 1991, at the Wexford Festival from 1995 to
1997, at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile until 2006; more recently he
was principal guest conductor at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
M° Benini has recently conducted the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Rossini's Le
Comte Ory, followed by Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Elisir
d'Amore; Stiffelio at the Opéra in Monte Carlo; Tosca at the
Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London; Lucia di Lammermoor at the
Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; L’Elisir d’Amore at the Metropolitan in
New York; Il Turco in Italia in Munich.
Plans include: productions
at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Maria Stuarda), at the Opéra
de Montecarlo (Adriana Lecouvreur, La Wally); at the Théâtre du Capitole
in Toulouse (Lucia di Lammermoor); at
the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest (Faust);
at the Dutch National Opera (Il Trovartore). In the following seasons he
will return to London conducting Rigoletto and Nabucco and in New York involved in important
productions.
Maurizio Benini was awarded by the most important critics of Spanish musical
magazines and newspapers as best conductor of the season (2012) thanks his
interpretation of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur staged at the Gran Teatre
del Liceu in Barcelona.
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