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Francesco Ommassini - conductor
Francesco Ommassini is the music director of the Orchestra Regionale del Veneto
Filarmonia Veneta. He made his debut in 2009 with new productions of Traviata and Barbiere
di Siviglia with the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta. Afterwards, the successful
performance of Mozart’s Coronation Mass at Teatro Fraschini in Pavia and
a concert with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra he has been reinvited to conduct
in the following seasons of the orchestra. M° Ommassini opened the 2011 edition
of the Verona Contemporanea Festival at the Teatro Filarmonico with the Orchestra
dell’Arena di Verona and made his debut with the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali
di Milano; he then conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Novara, Rigoletto and La
Sonnambula at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso, at the Comunale in Ferrara
and at the Alighieri in Ravenna, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the
Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and a series of concerts at the Teatro Filarmonico in
Verona. He just conducted Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Treviso.
Plans include: revivals of Don Giovanni in Ferrara; L’Italiana
in Algeri in Treviso and Ferrara; Paisiello’s Zenobia in Palmira at
the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; La Sonnambula at the Teatro Filarmonico in
Verona.
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Alessandro Carletti - light designer
Born in Rome, he studied photography and painting through which he very soon discovered
his passion for lighting design. In the late 90s he started working at the Rossini
Opera Festival where he consolidated his experience in opera productions. In 2008
he started his collaboration with Damiano Michieletto working together for Jackie’O in
Lugo, Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples, La Scala di Seta and Sigismondo at the
Rossini Opera Festival. Furthermore, in 2011 they continued their collaboration
in Valencia on Elisir d’amore, at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Greek Passion and Così fan tutte at the New National
Theatre Tokyo. He worked regularly with directors such as Daniele Abbado, Francesco
Micheli, Henning Brockhaus, Pippo Delbono, Franco Ripa di Meana, Yannis Kokkos and
others. Recent works include: Il Trittico, Le Nozze di Figaro (Theater
an der Wien), Don Carlos (Wiener Staatsoper),Cavalleria Rusticana (Teatro
San Carlo, Naples), Nabucco and Guillaume Tell (Royal
Opera House Covent Garden in London), Un Ballo in Maschera (Teatro
La Scala, Comunale in Bologna) and many others, while his next projects include L’Elisir
d’amore in Brussels, Nabucco (Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona).
Alessandro Carletti has just received the Knight of Illumination award forGuillaume
Tell staged at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.
Plans
include: Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro La Fenice in
Venice; La Scala di Seta in Cremona and in Liège; Cavalleria
Rusticana and Pagliacci at the ROH in London and in
Sidney and Melbourne; Rossini’s Otello in Vienna (Theater an der
Wien); Dreigroschenoper at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan; Puccini’s
Il Trittico at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Cendrillon at the
Komische Oper Berlin; Samson et Dalila at the Opera de Paris; Falstaff at
the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Il Trovatore at the Staatsoper
in Wien; Il Viaggio a Reims at the Royal Opera Copenhagen.
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