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Stefano Montanari - conductor
One of the most outstanding baroque violinists of his generation, Stefano
Montanari is now much in demand as a conductor with both modern and period
orchestras. Stefano Montanari was nominated for a Grammy Award for his recording
of Purcell’s O Solitude with Andreas Scholl for Decca. His recording of
Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas was published for the Italian music magazine
Amadeus. He wrote the “Baroque Violin method” published by Carisch.
In Venice, where he regularly appears both in opera and concert, he recently
conducted Cavalli’s Eritrea (first performance in modern times), L’Inganno
Felice and Don Giovanni. He also made his debut with the Opera in
Rome at the Terme di Caracalla conducting Il Barbiere di Siviglia, an
opera he also conducted at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. Always active as a
virtuoso violinist, Stefano Montanari had played the whole series of Bach’s Sonatas
and Partitas at the Opéra de Lyon and later at the Settimane Musicali in
Stresa Festival. After a successful concert with the Orchestra del Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino, he has been reinvited to conduct Dido & Aeneas at
the Opera in Florence, Bach’s B minor mass and series of symphonic
concerts. Stefano Montanari obtained a huge success conducting Il Viaggio a
Reims (new production by Damiano Michieletto) in Amsterdam. His most recent
engagements include: Caldara’s Dafne at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, Don
Giovanni at the Arena in Verona; Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera
Lombardia circuit; La Clemenza di Tito in Moscow with the State Chamber
Orchestra of Russia (Moscow Chamber Orchestra); an all Haydn concert series for
MiTo Festival and a series of concerts with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali
in Milan and at the Opera in Florence. Stefano Montanari regularly collaborates
and records with jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Gianluigi Trovesi.
After his successes in Così fan tutte and La Clemenza di Tito, M°
Montanari returns to Moscow at the Bolshoi Theatre conducting revivals of
Mozart’s masterpiece.
Future plans: Händel’s Rinaldo in Brussels, Paris and Karlsruhe; Agrippina in
Antwerp; Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L’Elisir d’Amore and series of
symphonic concerts at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Rossini’s Stabat Mater with
the Warsaw Philharmonic in Warsaw; Händel’s Gloria in excelsis Deo in
Zurich with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra; concerts in Turin with the Filarmonica
del Teatro Regio di Torino, in Milan with the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, in
Montreal with the Arion Baroque Orchestra, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at
the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe. He will return to the Opéra de Lyon involved
in several new projects, among which Die Entführung aus dem Serail,
Alceste, Don Giovanni (on tour in Oman) and a series of concerts.
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