Maurizio Benini is a regular guest of many of the world's most
prestigious opera houses: the Metropolitan Opera in New
York, Opéra de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, the 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.
After studying Composition and Orchestral Conducting, Maestro
Benini made his conducting debut at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with
Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino. His
debut at the Teatro alla Scala was in 1992 with La Donna del
Lago, where he has since led Don Carlo, I
Pagliacci, Don Pasquale, Rigoletto and La
Sonnambula. At the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, he led
performances of La Scala di Seta, L’Occasione fa
il Ladro and Le Siège de Corinthe;
Attila, Luisa Miller, Faust and La
Traviata at Covent Garden; Rossini's Zelmira
at the Edinburgh Festival; and Don Carlo in
Barcelona.
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 and Principal Guest Conductor at the
Teatro San Carlo in Naples (2011). Mr Benini had 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 at the
Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London; Lucia di
Lammermoor at the Théâtre du Capitole
in Toulouse. Maurizio Benini was awarded by the most important critics
of Spanish musical magazines and newspapers as best conductor of the
season (2012) thanks his interpretation of Cilea’s Adriana
Lecouvreur staged at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in
Barcelona. More recently he conducted Il Turco in
Italia in Munich, Faust and Rigoletto
in London, Maria Stuarda in Barcelona, L'Elisir
d'amore at the Metropolitan Opera, a new production of Il
Trovatore in Amsterdam, Leoncavallo's Zazà
corcert and recording for Opera Rara in London, La
Wally in Monte Carlo.
He collaborates with the label Opera Rara, while his most
recent recording is Rossini’s La
Cenerentola with Deutsche Grammophon.
Most recently he conducted in New York Lucia di
Lammermoor, Don Pasquale, Roberto
Devereux, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Puritani, Semiramide; in
Amsterdam Il Trovatore; in London
Leoncavallo’s Zazà, Nabucco,
La Traviata and Les Vespres Sicilianne; I
Capuleti e I Montecchi at the Opernhaus in Zurich; Anna Bolena in
Sevilla and Valencia; Lucia di Lammermoor in
Toulouse; Adriana Lecouvreur, Luisa MIller and Falstaff in
Montecarlo; Il Trovatore at the Opéra de Paris; Il Barbiere di Siviglia
in Amsterdam; Luisa Miller and Falstaff in Monte Carlo; Rigoletto in Buenos Aires; La Sonnambula in Zurich; Il Trovatore and Il Pirata in Madrid; Nabucco in Amsterdam; Rossini's Otello in Liege; Anna Bolena in Paris
Plans include:Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux in Valencia; La Sonnambula and a series of Gala Concert in Madrid; Norma and Don Pasquale at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Rigoletto and Tosca in Tokyo; I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Liège; Petite Messe Solennelle in Cagliari.
November 2022