Maurizio Benini - conductor
After his
debut at Teatro Comunale in Bologna, he started a career at the highest levels
with many commitments in Bel Canto and Verdi's repertoire in such theaters as
the Paris Opera, the Staatsoper in Vienna, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
in London, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Metropolitan
Opera, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the La
Fenice in Venice and in festivals such as the Glyndebourne Festival, the
Edinburgh Festival, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy. Many are his
recordings with the Opera Rara label and with Deutsche Grammophon.
The Italian Maestro was the Principal Conductor at the Filarmonici del Teatro
Comunale di Bologna between 1984 and 1991, at the Wexford Festival from 1995 to
1997, at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile until 2006; more recently he
was principal guest conductor at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He has recently
conducted the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Rossini's Le Comte Ory,
followed by Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Elisir d'Amore; in the
following seasons he will return to New York conducting important productions.
Future plans include: productions at the Royal Opera House in London (Faust,
Rigoletto, Nabucco), at the Opéra National de Paris (Lucia di
Lammermoor), at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Maria Stuarda),
at the Opéra de Montecarlo (Stiffelio), at the Théâtre du Capitole in
Toulouse (Don Carlo, Lucia di Lammermoor). He will conduct also
Il Turco in Italia at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.
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