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Maurizio Benini - conductor*
After his debut at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, he started a career at the highest
levels with many commitments in Bel Canto and Verdi's repertoire in such theaters
as the Paris Opera, the Staatsoper in Vienna, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
in London, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Metropolitan Opera,
the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the La Fenice in Venice
and in festivals such as the Glyndebourne Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the
Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy. Many are his recordings with the Opera
Rara label and with Deutsche Grammophon. The Italian Maestro was the Principal Conductor
at the Filarmonici del Teatro Comunale di Bologna between 1984 and 1991, at the
Wexford Festival from 1995 to 1997, at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile
until 2006; more recently he was principal guest conductor at the Teatro San Carlo
in Naples.
M° Benini has recently conducted the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Rossini's Le
Comte Ory, followed by Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Elisir
d'Amore; Stiffelio at the Opéra in Monte Carlo; Tosca at
the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London; Lucia di Lammermoor at
the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; L’Elisir d’Amore at the Metropolitan
in New York; Il Turco in Italia in Munich.
Plans include: productions at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona
(Maria Stuarda), at the Opéra de Montecarlo (Adriana Lecouvreur,
La Wally); at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Lucia di Lammermoor); at
the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest (Faust); at the Dutch National Opera
(Il Trovartore). In the following seasons he will return to London conducting Nabucco and
in New York involved in important productions.
Maurizio Benini was awarded by the most important critics of Spanish musical magazines
and newspapers as best conductor of the season (2012) thanks his interpretation
of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur staged at the Gran Teatre del Liceu
in Barcelona.
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