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. 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 has just been published for the Italian music magazine Amadeus. He recently wrote a Baroque Violin method, published by Carisch. He is regularly present in the seasons of Teatro La Fenice both in opera and in concert. He just made his theatre debut at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow conducting Così Fan Tutte,  he then conducted Cavalli’s Eritrea (first performances in modern times) and L’Inganno Felice in Venice, Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Terme in Caracalla, all of them with great success of critics and public. Stefano Montanari has just played Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas at the Opéra de Lyon.

Future plans: 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 (company debut); Il Barbiere di Siviglia 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.

Stefano Montanari will return to Venice conducting a series of concerts.