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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: Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules at the Teatro
Massimo in Palermo; a cycle of concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de
Santiago (Chile); Mozart’s Requiem (Levin edition), Duruflé’s
Requiem op. 9 and Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with the
Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino (in the framework his 3-year long collaboration
with the orchestra); Verdi’s Il Trovatore for the AsLiCo; a concert
tour with the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari; concerts with the
ORT-Orchestra della Toscana and Cinzia Forte. He obtained a great success
conducting Cilea’s L’Arlesiana for the opening of the 2013-2014 season
of Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi (soon to be released in CD and DVD by Dynamic). He
then conducted: a Verdi Gala at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow with the
soloists and the orchestra of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre and at the
Teatro Regio in Parma; Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana at the Nuovo
Teatro Comunale in Sassari; a new production of Rossini’s Tancredi for
the Circuito Lirico Lombardo (Pavia, Cremona, Como and Brescia), featuring the
Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali; a new production of Rossini’s La Cambiale di
Matrimonio at the Teatro Regio in Parma and in Reggio Emilia; Il
Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; a new production
of Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Campiello for the season’s opening of the Opera in
Florence.
Future engagements include: Il
Campiello in Trieste; the world première of Marco Tutino’s opera Le
braci (based on Sándor Márai’s novel Embers) directed by Gabriele Lavia at
the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, and then at the Maggio
Musicale in Florence; a new production of Mascagni’s Gugliemo Ratcliff
at the Wexford Festival Opera; La Traviata at the Opéra Royal de
Wallonie in Liège.
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