Paolo Carignani - conductor

With a vast repertory spans from Donizetti to Puccini, Rossini to Strauss and Verdi, Paolo Carignani has collaborated with 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 National 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. Paolo Carignani has just gained great success conducting Guillaume Tell in Amsterdam and La Traviata in Vienna.

His future plans for 2013 include: Nabucco at the Wiener Staatsoper; Il Trovatore, Falstaff, Otello at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Otello in Zurich; Rigoletto in Strasbourg; Giovanna d’Arco at the Salzburg Festival. In the next seasons he will also conduct: Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Andrea Chénier and La Fanciulla del West at the Wiener Staatsoper; Tosca at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Le Villi with the Orchestre National de France in Paris; L’Amico Fritz in Strasbourg; La Traviata, Nabucco, Il Trovatore, Norma, Macbeth at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Carmen in Toronto; Les Vepres Siciliennes in Copenaghen; Pagliacci at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; a series of symphonic concerts with the Orchestra Regionale Toscana in Florence. Paolo Carignani will be engaged in important productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. On the concert side Mr Carignani will be engaged in series of concerts in Florence, and in Tokio with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra.