Maurizio Benini - conductor
After his
debut at Teatro Comunale in Bologna 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; his most
recent recording is Rossini’s La Cenerentola 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. He has recently conducted the
Metropolitan Opera premiere of Rossini's Le Comte Ory and Il Barbiere
di Siviglia; he will return to New York with Maria Stuarda and
Lucia di Lammermoor in the following seasons.
Other future engagements
include productions at the Royal Opera House in London (Tosca, Faust,
Rigoletto, Nabucco), the Opéra de Montecarlo (Stiffelio), at the
Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Don Carlo), at the Opéra National de
Paris (Lucia di Lammermoor). He will conduct also Anna Bolena at
the Opera National de Bordeaux and Il Turco in Italia at the Bayerische
Staatsoper in Munich.
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