Paolo Arrivabeni - conductor

Music Director at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège

Regularly invited by the major theaters and opera festivals Paolo Arrivabeni is an expert of Italian Opera particularly interested also in great Russian and German composers; in the past seasons he had indeed conducted operas by Mahler, Strauss and Musorgskij. M° Arrivabeni recently conducted La Favorite at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Traviata in Dresden, La Forza del Destino in Liège, Il Trovatore at the Sferisterio Opera Festival and a Wagnerian gala in Liège.

Future plans: Il Turco in Italia and revivals of Lucrezia Borgia at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Macbeth in Copenhagen and in Berlin (Deutsche Oper) where he also will conduct Maria Stuarda and Nabucco; La Straniera, I Due Foscari, Moïse et Pharaon in Marseille; La Bohème at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; La Straniera at the Theater an der Wien; Don Giovanni in Monte- Carlo; La Forza del Destino at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; La Rondine in Toulouse; and Roberto Devereux at the Teatro Comunale in Florence. In Liège M° Arrivabeni will conduct Fidelio, Aida, La Cenerentola, Tosca, Les Pécheurs de Perles, Ernani, Die Zauberflöte, Nabucco and Turandot.