Sebastiano
Rolli studied Chamber Music and Composition at the Conservatory in
Parma and Milan and Musical drama with Marcello Conati. He started his
career as a conductor at a very young age, distinguishing as one of the
most exciting performers of his generation.
In the past seasons he conducted: Macbeth
at the Slovak National Opera in Bratislava; Maria Stuarda
at the Teatro Sociale in Rovigo, Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo and
Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Il
Trovatore, Maria di Rudenz and Torquato Tasso again in Bergamo; Falstaff
at the Teatro Verdi in Busseto for the Festival Verdi; I
Puritani at the Slovak National Opera in Bratislava; Gianni
Schicchi and Suor Angelica in Tirana; Anna
Bolena
in Tenerife; Die
Lustige Witwe at
the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; La Cenerentola and Pierino e il lupo
at the Filarmonico in Verona; Lucia di Lammermoor at
the Regio in Parma and in Savona and La Sonnambula in
Catania.
Most
recently he conducted: Donizetti's
Rosmonda d'Inghilterra in Bergamo and in Florence; Bellini's
La straniera in Catania; L'Italiana in Algeri with
the Opera of Florence in Oman; Norma in Tenerife; La
Traviata and
La Sonnambula in Florence, Parma, Busseto and
Bolzano;
Roberto Devereux and Un
ballo in maschera in Parma; Nabucco for the
Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv;Il
Trovatore for the Rete Lirica delle Marche, in Tirana and in
Fidenza for Festival the Verdi; Pagliacci in Sassari; Il
Barbiere di Siviglia and Don Pasquale in Fribourg; Il Maestro di Cappella on tour in
Italy with the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana; Donizetti's Il
giovedì grasso in Ancona; Macbeth at the Opera in Dijon; I
Lombardi alla prima crociata and I Due Foscari at the
Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Rigoletto in Treviso, Rovigo; Il
Barbiere di Siviglia in Nancy; L'Elisir d'amore in
Magdeburg.
On the concert side, he conducted a Faure's
Requiem,
Verdi's Quattro
pezzi sacri
at
the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; recital at the Concert Hall in
Dublin and a tour in Mexico and Perù along with Juan Diego Florez; Verdi's
Requiem in Madesana with the Teatro Regio of Parma; concerts
at the Arena di
Verona Orchestra and at the Olympia Theater in Athens and with the
Università Statale Milano Orchestra, where he is principal conductor.
Among
his numerous publications, two critical studies on "Giuseppe Verdi.
The
masters of melodramma "Giuseppe Di Stefano. His characters" - Azzali
Publishers. He is regularly invited by musical institutions and
conservatoires to keep masters in- depth interpretation of Verdi or
choral music. He was professor of interpretation of the score and
vocal
diction for singers in the courses "Mythos" of the "Fondazione Arturo
Toscanini" and "Fondazione Teatro Alla Scala" in Milan.
January 2024