Corrado Rovaris - conductor
Music Director of the Philadelphia Opera Company Principal Guest Conductor of I
Virtuosi Italiani Music Director at the Artosphere Festival Orchestra.
After his debut with Galuppi’s Il filosofo di campagna for the AsLiCo circuit in
Italy, he initially devoted himself to the baroque repertoire, getting later
close to composers such as Mozart, Haydn, Paisiello, Rossini, Donizetti, Bizet,
Verdi, Puccini. Corrado Rovaris has conducted at the Santa Fe Opera Festival,
the Japan Opera Foundation, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Festival della Valle
d’Itria in Martina Franca and the Festival Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi. Mr.
Rovaris also collaborated with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the
Orchestra del Maggio Fiorentino in Florence, the Orchestre de Chambre de
Lausanne, the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Orchestra
Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. Mr. Rovaris participated in two significant
developments in the past season. M° Rovaris instigated and conducted the Spanish
premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s one-act masterpiece Ainadamar; the
production by Mexican director Luis de Tavira was presented at the Alhambra
Palace for the Granada Festival and was then revived at the Santander Festival.
Mr. Rovaris recently conducted Powder her face by Adès and Nabucco in
Philadelphia; the first modern performance of Spontini’s cantata Gott segne
den König at the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi; Mozart’s La Betulia
Liberata in Wroclaw; Don Pasquale in Santa Fe; Il Barbiere di
Siviglia at the Opera Company in Philadelphia; Roberto Devereux in
Toronto; symphonic concerts at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.
With the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai he recorded Nino Rota’s cello
concertos and the recording of Pizzetti’s cello concerto will be soon released
for Sony Classical.
Future plans include: Don Carlo, L’Elisir d’amore, Turandot,
Tancredi as well as Schynder’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird and
Higdon’s Cold mountain at the Philadelphia Opera Company; a baroque
concert with I Virtuosi Italiani at the Festival Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi;
La Traviata in Théâtre Municipal de Lausanne; Lucia di Lammermoor at
the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy; Garcia’s Don Quichotte at the
Opera de Oviedo; symphonic concerts with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, the
Orchesta Sinfònica del Pricipado de Asturias and at the Artosphere Festival.
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