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 (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 Monte Carlo (Stiffelio), at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Don Carlo, Lucia di Lammermoor). He will conduct also Il Turco in Italia at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.