After studying Composition and Orchestral Conducting, Maestro Benini made
his conducting debut at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with Rossini’s Il
Signor Bruschino.
In 1992 he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala with La Donna del
Lago and Don Carlo and at the Rossini Opera Festival in
Pesaro with La Scala di Seta.
The Italian Maestro was 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 and
Principal Guest Conductor at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples (2011).
Maurizio Benini is a regular guest of many of the world's most
prestigious opera houses such as Metropolitan Opera in New York, Opéra de
Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in London, Gran
Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Dutch National Opera
in Amsterdam, Opernhaus in Zürich, Opéra de Montecarlo, Théâtre du
Capitole de Toulouse and Teatro La Fenice in Venice, just to name only a
few. He frequently participates in prominent international festivals such
as the Glyndebourne Festival, Rossini Opera Festival, Festival of
Edinburgh.
He regularly collaborates with the label Opera Rara, while his most
recent recording is Rossini’s La Cenerentola with Deutsche
Grammophon.
Most recently he conducted Manon, Lucia di Lammermoor, Don
Pasquale, Roberto Devereux, Il Barbiere di Siviglia,
I Puritani, Semiramide and Norma in New York;
Leoncavallo's Zazà, Nabucco, La Traviata, Les
Vêpres siciliennes and Faust in London; I Capuleti e
Montecchi and La Sonnambula in Zürich; Anna Bolena
in Sevilla; Lucia di Lammermoor in Toulouse; Anna Bolena in
Paris; Adriana Lecouvreur, Luisa Miller and Falstaff
in Monte Carlo; Il Trovatore and Il Barbiere di Siviglia
in Amsterdam; Rigoletto in Buenos Aires; Il Trovatore, Il
Pirata, La Sonnambula in Madrid; Rossini's I Capuleti e
i Montecchi and Otello in Liège; Rossini's Petite messe
solennelle and Il Giudizio Universale in Cagliari; Roberto
Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena and Il
Trovatore in Valencia; and Rigoletto, Tosca and La
Sonnambula in Tokyo.
Among the engagements for the 2025-26 season are: I Puritani and
a symphonic concert at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; Lucrezia
Borgia at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville; Rigoletto
at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; and Norma in
Dublin, Wexford and Cork.
August 2025