Francesco Ommassini – conductor

Francesco Ommassini is the music director of the Orchestra Regionale del Veneto Filarmonia Veneta. 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 in Treviso, Ferrara and Ravenna; Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and a series of concerts at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. More recently he conducted Don Giovanni and L’Italiana in Algeri in Treviso and Ferrara; La Scala di Seta for the OperaLombardia circuit on tour in Italy.

Plans include: Paisiello’s Zenobia in Palmira at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; La Pietra del Paragone at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari and series of concerts in Verona with the Accademia Filarmonica and at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania.