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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.
M° Gelmetti 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 lately
returned to Trieste conducting La
Traviata and where in the past
seasons he conducted La Clemenza di Tito, Stabat Mater and more
recently Un Ballo in Maschera.
Among his future plans
it is worth metioning Manon Lescaut
at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in
Liège.
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