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. He has recently
conducted the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Rossini's Le Comte Ory, followed by
Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Elisir d'Amore; in the following seasons he will
return to New York conducting important productions.
Future plans include: productions at the Royal Opera House in London (Tosca,
Faust, Rigoletto, Nabucco), at the Opéra National de Paris (Lucia di
Lammermoor), at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Maria Stuarda), at the
Opéra de Montecarlo (Stiffelio), at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Don
Carlo, 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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