Paolo Carignani - conductor

Paolo Carignani graduated in Composition, Organ and Piano at the Verdi Music Conservatory in Milan and studied Orchestral Conducting with Alceo Galliera. His vast repertory spans from Donizetti to Puccini, Rossini to Strauss and Verdi, and has brought him to conduct at the world's most prestigious theatres, such as the Wiener Staatsoper, Berliner Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House-Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille in Paris, Zurich Opernhaus, Concertgebouw and Royal Opera House in Amsterdam, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and opera houses in Brussels, Antwerp and Oslo as well as Italy's major opera houses. He was Generalmusikdirektor of the Oper Frankfurt from 1998/99 to 2008/09 and the Musical Director of the Museumsorchester in Frankfurt. The Italian Maestro also enjoys a prolific symphonic concerts activity, collaborating with, among others: Munchner Philharmoniker, Gothenburg Symphony, Detroit and Oregon Symphony Orchestras, Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra, Germany's radio symphony orchestras of NDR and WDR, Austria's ORF, Italy's RAI and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra.

After his success he gained conducting Tosca at the Opéra de Paris, Paolo Carignani will conduct Guillaume Tell at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam; Traviata and Nabucco at the Wiener Staatsoper; Nabucco at the New National Theater in Tokio; Il Trovatore, Falstaff, Otello at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Otello in Zurich; Rigoletto in Strasbourg; concerts in Dallas, in Tokio at the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and in Amsterdam with the Nederlandse Philarmonisch Orkest. In the next seasons he will also conduct: Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Andrea Chénier and La Fanciulla del West at the Wiener Staatsoper; Tosca at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Le Villi with the Orchestre National de France in Paris; L’Amico Fritz in Strasbourg; Nabucco, Il trovatore, Norma at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Carmen in Toronto. Paolo Carignani will be engaged in important productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.