Viareggio native, Maestro Valerio Galli, was born
in the cradle where some of the greatest versimo operas were ever
written. Therefore, it is no surprise that his career launched in 2007,
at the age of 27, with Tosca
for the 53rd Puccini Festival. This production, directed by Mario
Corradi, was published in DVD on the Dynamic label, and won him the
Gold Mask 2007 Prize for Young Emerging Conductors. In 2013, he
was awarded the 42° edition of the prestigious Premio Puccini for
future outstanding artistry in the repertoire.
Valerio Galli is principal guest conductor at the Opera in Toulon.
Amongst his past engagements: Madama Butterfly at the Opéra de Toulon, a symphonic concert at Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Tosca and La Rondine at Teatro del Maggio in Firenze, Tosca
at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Turandot at San Diego Civic Theatre, Tosca at Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze in Napoli. He conducts Carmen at Michigan
Opera Theatre in Detroit, La Bohème at Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, Pagliacci at Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, La Bohème and Turandot at Teatro Regio in
Parma, Don Carlo and Adriana Leouvreur at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Tosca for the
Bellini Theatre in Catania. Plans include: Recent engagements include some of the
less-frtquented operatic repertoire such as Fedora at the Teatro Carlo
Felice in Genoa and Adriana Lecouvreur in Skopje with Daniela Dessi,
the diptych Zanetto and Cavalleria Rusticana in Livorno, La Rondine for
Fresno Grand Opera and Le Villi in Managua, as well as Madama Butterfly
at Teatro Municipale in Piacenza, in Modena, Lucca, Livorno, Rovigo, the
inauguration of the Theater of Zhuhai Huafa (China) with Turandot, a
Verdi recital with Daniela Dessi in Parma with the Philharmonic 'A.
Toscanini ', Tosca for the inauguration of the 61st Festival Puccini, La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa, Tosca at the Teatro
Coccia in Novara, Madama Butterfly (Brescia version 1904) at the Teatro
Carlo Felice in Genoa; Cavlleria Rusticana, L'Amico Fritz and Fauré's Requiem in Cagliari; La Fanciulla del West in Pavia, Como, Cremona and Brescia; Zanetto at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Rossini's Stabat Mater in Trieste; Gianni Schicchi in Empoli; Madama Butterfly in Stuttgart; L'Heure Espagnole and La Bohème in Toulon. Plans include: Attila in Seoul; Tosca in Palermo, Toulon, San Diego, Stuttgart; Pagliacci in Trieste; Carmen in Toulon; Faust in Detroit.
He had a sensational success with critics and
audiences in his debut at the Michigan Opera Theater in Detroit with Turandot and La Bohème at the 60th Puccini
Festival, with protagonists Daniela Dessi and Fabio Armiliato, directed
by Maestro Ettore Scola, was broadcast on RAI and pubblicated in DVD
with the 4K system.
Maestro Galli’s future engagements include: La Bohème in San Diego; a series of lyric concert in Brescia, Como, Pavia; Tosca in Tokyo; L'Heure Espagnole, La Bohème, La Forza del Destino and other important production in Toulon.
Past engagemnts include also: Il Trovatore, Norma, Un ballo in Maschera, Suor Angelica, L'Elisir d'amore and Pagliacci with such artists as Dimitra
Theodossiou, Albeto Cupido, Piero Giuliacci, Carlo Guelfi and
Elisabetta Fiorillo; Donizetti's Il campanello and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice with Rolando Panerai and Juan
Pons; Maurizio Scaparro’s staging of Turandot designed by Ezio Frigerio
and Madama Butterly for the Puccini Festival; Giancarlo Cobelli’s
production of Rigoletto at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, alternating with
M° Bruno Bartoletti; Carmen at Teatro Coccia in Novara after his La Traviata won him public and critical acclaim; Turandot at Teatro Verdi
in Pisa with Giovanna Casolla; La Traviata at Teatro Sociale in Mantua; Tosca at Teatro Sociale in Trento, Teatro Verdi in Pisa and Teatro
Sociale in Rovigo, for the opening of the Daegu International Opera
Festival 2008 in South Korea with Francesca Patanè as protagonist and
in Nicaragua’s Rubén Darío National Theatre. Include also concerts for
the XXII° Kecskeméti Tavaszi Festival in Hungary, the International
House of Music in Moscow, Teatro Goldoni in Livorno entirely devoted to
the verismo repertoire, Teatro Pavarotti in Modena, Teatro Carlo Felice
in Genoa, the New Year’s Day Concerts at Teatro del Giglio in
Lucca and Teatro Verdi in Pisa, symphonic concerts with Orchestra della
Toscana ORT, the I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in Milano, the
SanMarino Symphony Orchestra and inaugurated the 57th Santander
Festival with soloists Eva Mei and Giacomo Prestia. Valerio Galli
received his diploma in piano with the highest grades and honors under
the guidance of Fabrizio Papi and Nadia Puccinelli and obtained a
Composition Diploma in 2008 under Pietro Rigacci also with the highest
grades. He took master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda, Bruno Canino,
Piero Rattalino, Franco Scala and enjoyed a brief career as a concert
pianist, giving concerts in Budapest, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles,
Santa Barbara, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Paris, Tokyo, London,
Peking, Abu Dhabi and Tripoli. In 2003, he began to study conducting
with Piero Bellugi, Aldo Faldi, Donato Renzetti and Carlo Moreno
Volpini. In 2005, he worked as assistant to the conductor David Kram at
Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. His opera conducting
debut preceded in 2004, with Madama Butterfly at Teatro Mancinelli in
Orvieto, follwed by the children’s operas of Britten’s The Little sweep
and Zangelmi’s The Emperor's new clothes.
February 2022