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Stefano Montanari - conductor
One of the most outstanding baroque violinists of his generation, Stefano
Montanari is now much in demand as a conductor with both modern and period
orchestras. Stefano Montanari was nominated for a Grammy Award for his recording
of Purcell’s O Solitude with Andreas Scholl for Decca. His recording of
Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas was published for the Italian music magazine
Amadeus. He recently wrote a Baroque Violin method, published by Carisch. He
recently made his theatre debut at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow conducting Così
Fan Tutte. In Venice, where he regularly appears both in opera and concert,
he recently conducted Cavalli’s Eritrea (first performance in modern
times), L’Inganno Felice and Don Giovanni. He also made his debut
with the Opera in Rome conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Baths of
Caracalla. Always active as a virtuoso violinist, Stefano Montanari has just
played the whole series of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas at the Opéra de
Lyon. After a successful concert with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino, he has been reinvited to conduct Dido & Aeneas at the Opera
in Florence, Bach’s B minor mass and other symphonic concerts; he
also recently returned to I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan conducting a symphonic
concert. Stefano Montanari obtained a huge success leading Il Viaggio a Reims (new
production by Damiano Michieletto) in Amsterdam.
Future plans: Elektra,
Carmen and a series of concerts at the Teatro
Regio in Turin; Don Giovanni at
the Arena in Verona; Agrippina in Antwerp; Le Nozze di Figaro for
the As.Li.Co circuit (Como, Cremona, Brescia, Pavia, Bergamo); concerts in
Palermo with the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo, in Florence with the Orchestra
del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Milan with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali
and at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe.
M° Montanari will play all the sonatas and partitas for solo violin by Bach at
the Stresa Festival. He will also play in several concerts with his own ensemble
L’Estravagante in Italy and Europe, with the Arion Baroque Orchestra in Montréal
and will return to the Opéra de Lyon involved in several new projects, among
which Die Entführung aus dem Serail and a baroque concert.
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