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 regularly appears on the podium of the world’s most important opera houses and festivals. M° Gelmetti was Principal Conductor at the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra for ten years and Music Director at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome from 2000 to 2009; he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director at the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo.

Mr. Gelmetti also regularly works 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 the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, thus receiving the Rossini d’Oro Prize for his Guillaume Tell. Mr. 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 past engagements, it is worth mentioning: Falstaff, Francesca da Rimini, Mefistofele, L’Amica and Das Rheingold at the Opéra in Monte Carlo; Guillaume Tell in Zurich; La Forza del Destino in Parma, where he also conducted Un Ballo in Maschera 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. Mr. Gelmetti conducted La Traviata, Don Giovanni 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.

Mr. Gelmetti recently obtained a great success conducting Guillaume Tell in Monte Carlo and in Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), Rossini’s Stabat Mater again in Monte Carlo then on tour in Bratislava and Budapest, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste where he will return to conduct Die Fledermaus. Other projects include: Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Magna Grecia in Rome and Taranto and a series of concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Sodre in Montevideo.