Stefano Montanari - conductor*
One of the
most outstanding baroque violinists of his generation, Stefano Montanari is now
much in demand as a conductor both with modern and period orchestras. M°
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 has just been published for the Italian music magazine Amadeus.
He recently wrote a Baroque Violin method, published by Carisch. Stefano
Montanari had recently returned to Verona after the big success of last year’s Dido and
Aeneas, which re-opened the Teatro Ristori, and a successful ballet
production based on baroque music around Casanova.
Future
plans: Cavalli’s
L’Eritrea, Don Giovanni, L’Inganno Felice and series of
concerts at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; several new projects at the Opéra de
Lyon, where he is regularly reinvited; a new production of Il Viaggio a Reims at
the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam (debut); Il Barbiere di Siviglia at
the Caracalla Bath in Rome and at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Dido and
Aeneas at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, where he will also
conduct Bach’s Mass in B Minor and a series of baroque concerts; Orfeo
ed Euridice at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Agrippina in Antwerp;
concerts in Milan with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali and in Montréal with
the Arion Baroque Orchestra. He will also play in several concerts with his own
ensemble L’Estravagante in Italy and Europe.
*Opera House debut
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