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Gianluigi Gelmetti - conductor
Conductor and composer, Gianluigi Gelmetti, is one of today’s most prestigious
conductors. Since his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Italian conductor,
pupil of Sergiu Celibidache, Franco Ferrara and Hans Swarowski, regularly
appears on the podium of the world’s most important opera houses and festivals.
M° Gelmetti was Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
for ten years and Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome from 2000 to
2009; he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony
Orchestra. He is currently music and artistic director of the Orchestre
Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. He also regularly works at the Monte Carlo Opera
and the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden as well as in the most important
theaters in the world.
In Italy he performed many works by Rossini at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro,
thus receiving the Rossini d’Oro Prize for his Guillaume Tell. M°
Gelmetti was honored with the title of “Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et
lettres” in France and appointed “Cavaliere di Gran Croce” by the President of
the Italian Republic.
Among his recent engagements, it is worth mentioning: Falstaff, Francesca da
Rimini, Amica, Mefistofele, L’Amica and Das Rheingold at the Opéra in
Monte Carlo; Guillaume Tell at the Opernhaus Zurich; La Forza del
Destino in Parma, where he also conducted Un Ballo in Maschera for
the season’s opening night at the Verdi Festival; Les Vêpres Siciliennes in
Naples; Turandot in Tokyo; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Toulouse; La
Fanciulla del West in Liège; numerous symphonic concerts in Berlin and
Copenhagen. M° Gelmetti recently conducted La Traviata in Trieste, where
in the past seasons he conducted La Clemenza di Tito, Rossini’s Stabat
Mater and more recently Un Ballo in Maschera.
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