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
of 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 and at the Metropolitan in New York, where he
then conducted L’Elisir d’Amore; Il Turco in Italia in
Munich; Norma at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla.
Plans include: productions at the Opéra de Montecarlo (Adriana
Lecouvreur, La Wally); at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Don Pasquale,
Roberto Devereux and other important productions); at the Théâtre
du Capitole in Toulouse (Lucia di Lammermoor); at the Dutch
National Opera in Amsterdam and at the Teatro Real in Madrid (Il Trovatore);
at the Opernhaus in Zurich (I Capuleti e I Montecchi). In the following seasons
he will return to the Royal Opera House in London conducting Nabucco, La Traviata.
He will conduct and record Leoncavallo’s Zazà for Opera Rara in London.
Maurizio Benini has been awarded “best conductor of the season” (2012) by the most
important critics of Spanish musical magazines and newspapers thanks to his interpretation
of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur staged at the Gran Teatre del Liceu
in Barcelona.
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