Gianluigi Gelmetti - conductor
Conductor and composer, Gianluigi Gelmetti, is one of today’s most prestigious
conductors. Since his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Italian conductor,
pupil of Sergiu Celibidache, Franco Ferrara and Hans Swarowski, regularly
appears on the podium of the world’s most important opera houses and festivals.
He was Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra for ten
years and Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome from 2000 to 2009, he
was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
He also regularly works at the Monte Carlo Opera and the Royal Opera
house-Covent Garden such as the most important theaters in the world.
In Italy he has performed many works of Rossini at Rossini Opera Festival in
Pesaro achieving the Rossini d’Oro Prize for his Guillaume Tell. M°
Gelmetti was honored with the title of "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et
Lettres” in France and as "Cavaliere di Gran Croce" by President of the Italian
Republic.
Among his recent engagements it is worth mentioning:
Falstaff, Francesca da Rimini, Amica, Mefistofele, L’Amica and Das
Rheingold at the Opéra
in Monte Carlo; Guillaume
Tell at the Opernhaus
Zurich; La
Forza del Destino in
Parma where he also conducted Un Ballo in Maschera for the opening
night season at the Verdi Festival Les Vêpres Siciliennes in Naples; Turandot in Tokyo;
Il
Barbiere di Siviglia in
Toulouse; La
Fanciulla del West in
Liège; and numerous symphonic concerts in Berlin and Copenhagen. M°
Gelmetti returns to Trieste, where in the past seasons he conducted La
Clemenza di Tito, Stabat Mater and more recently
Un Ballo in Maschera.
In the next future M° Gelmetti will conduct I Due Foscari at the
Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.
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