Paolo Arrivabeni usually collaborates with Staatsoper unter den Linden
and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opernhaus Leipzig, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich,
Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Hamburg, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in
Dusseldorf, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zurich, Grand Theatre de Geneve,
Opéra de Lausanne, Opéra Bastille and Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris,
Théatre du Capitole in Toulouse, Opéra de Montecarlo, Teatro Nacional de
Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Teatro de La Maestranza in Seville, Opera in Oviedo,
Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Massimo in
Palermo, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino, Rossini Opera Festival, Sferisterio Opera Festival in
Macerata, Festival Verdi in Parma, New National Theatre in Tokyo,
Metropolitan Opera in New York.
From 2008 to 2017 he was music director of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in
Liège, where he conducted several productions such as Nabucco, Macbeth,
La Traviata, Lucrezia Borgia, Falstaff, Rigoletto,
Boris Godunov, La Bohème, Il Barbiere di Siviglia,
Otello, Salome, Il Trovatore, La Forza del
Destino, I Due Foscari, Der Fliegende Hollander, Les
pecheures de perles, Tosca, Fidelio.
Engagements of the past seasons include Le Comte Ory in Geneve; Luisa
Miller in Berlin (DOB); La Favorite in Paris; La
Traviata, Don Carlo, Tosca, Simon Boccanegra,
La Bohème and Macbeth in Dresden; Lucrezia Borgia
and Il Turco in Italia in Munich; La Bohème and Il
Trovatore in Macerata; Macbeth in Copenhagen; Roberto
Devereux in Florence; La Straniera and Maria Stuarda
in Vienna (TAW); Don Giovanni in Montecarlo; Macbeth, Maria
Stuarda and Nabucco in Berlin (Staatasoper); Un Ballo in
Maschera in Palermo; La Bohème in Caracalla; Puccini's Messa
di Gloria with the Orchestra National de France; Demetrio and
Polibio in Pesaro and Rossini's Stabat Mater at the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
At the Marseille Opera, he conducted numerous productions including La
Straniera, I due Foscari, Moise et Pharaon, Simon
Boccanegra, Boris Godunov, La Favorite, Lohengrin,
Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Macbeth, Nabucco, Attila,
Un Ballo in Maschera and Madama Butterfly.
Most recently he conducted La Bohème, La Forza del Destino
and Boris Godunov in Geneve; I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Nabucco,
Otello, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Tosca
and L'Arlesiana at the Deutsche Oper; La Bohème at the New
National Theatre in Tokyo; La Rondine and La Forza del Destino
in Toulouse; L'Italiana in Algeri in Madrid and San Sebastian;
Verdi's Requiem, Nabucco, Tosca, La Bohème,
Luisa Miller, Rigoletto, Norma and Il Trovatore
in Hamburg; Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in Genoa; Macbeth
in Cagliari; I due Foscari at the Verdi Festival in Parma; Maria
Stuarda and Tosca in Rome and La Traviata in
Caracalla; Un Ballo in Maschera in Munich; La Bohème, Nabucco
and Madama Butterfly in Dresden; Madama Butterfly and Cavalleria
Rusticana in Duesseldorf; La Forza del Destino in Oslo; Simon
Boccanegra in Zurich; and Maria Stuarda in Copenhagen.
Plans include Aida, Nabucco and Simon Boccanegra
at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Aida at the Metz Métropole; Tosca
at the Norske Oper in Oslo and Ernani at the Teatro Filarmonico in
Verona.
May 2025