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Gianluigi Gelmetti - conductor
Music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
Conductor and composer, Gianluigi Gelmetti, is one of today’s most prestigious
conductors. Since his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Italian conductor
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 at the Royal Opera House -
Covent Garden as well as in the most important theaters in the world.
In Italy he performed many works by Rossini at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro,
thus receiving 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 appointed “Cavaliere di Gran Croce” in Italy.
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 season’s opening night at the Verdi Festival; Les Vêpres Siciliennes in
Naples; Turandot in Tokyo; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Toulouse; La
Fanciulla del West in Liège; numerous symphonic concerts in Berlin and
Copenhagen. M° Gelmetti recently conducted La Traviata and
Mozart’s Requiem in Trieste, where in the past seasons he conducted La
Clemenza di Tito, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Un Ballo in Maschera.
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