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 and Rigoletto 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 Opéra de Montecarlo (Adriana Lecouvreur, La Wally); at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York and 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); at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla (Norma and
symphonic concert). In the following seasons he will return to the ROH in London
conducting Nabucco, La Traviata and Zazà 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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