Francesco Cilluffo - Conductor

Conductor and composer, he graduated from the Turin Conservatoire, the Guildhall School of Music and the King’s College in London. Among his most notable appearances as conductor: a new production of Tancredi for the Circuito Lirico Lombardo in Italy (Pavia, Cremona, Como and Brescia); Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra (in the framework his 3-year long collaboration with the orchestra); Cavalleria Rusticana in Sassari; a Verdi Gala at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow with the singers and the orchestra of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center; Cilea’s L’Arlesiana for the season’s opening of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi (filmed in DVD by Dynamic); concerts with the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana; a new production of Il Trovatore for the AsLiCo on tour in Northern Italy’s historical theaters; Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Mozart’s Requiem and Duruflé’s Requiem op. 9 with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the Festival della Valle d’Itria; concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago de Chile; The Servant by Tutino at the Teatro Rossini in Lugo; Le Nozze di Figaro at the Byblos Festival; a gala concert at the Scottish Opera in Glasgow.

Future engagements include: a new production of Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Campiello at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence; La Traviata at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.