Paolo Carignani graduated in Composition, Organ and Piano at the Verdi Music Conservatory in Milan and studied Orchestral Conducting with Alceo Galliera. His vast repertory spans from Donizetti to Puccini, Rossini to Strauss and Verdi, and has brought him to conduct at the world's most prestigious theatres, such as the Wiener Staatsoper, Berliner Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House-Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille in Paris, Zurich Opernhaus, Concertgebouw and Royal Opera House in Amsterdam, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and opera houses in Brussels, Antwerp and Oslo as well as Italy's major opera houses. He was Generalmusikdirektor of the Oper Frankfurt from 1998/99 to 2008/09 and the Musical Director of the Museumsorchester in Frankfurt. The Italian Maestro also enjoys a prolific symphonic concerts activity, collaborating with, among others: Munchner Philharmoniker, Gothenburg Symphony, Detroit and Oregon Symphony Orchestras, Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra, Germany's radio symphony orchestras of NDR and WDR, Austria's ORF, Italy's RAI and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Future plans: Tosca at the Opéra de Paris, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and at the Wiener Staatsoper; La Bohème, Aida, Il Trovatore, Falstaff, Otello, La Traviata, Nabucco, Norma at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Edgar at the Salzburg Festival; La Traviata in Bilbao; Nabucco and Andrea Chénier at the Wiener Staatsoper; Rigoletto at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg; Guillaume Tell at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam; Otello at the Opernhaus in Zurich. He will be engaged in important productions at the Metropolitan in New York. He will conduct also symphonic concerts in Dallas, Tokyo and Amsterdam.