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 of 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.
M° Benini has recently
conducted the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Rossini's Le Comte Ory,
followed by Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Elisir d'Amore; Stiffelio at
the Opéra in Monte Carlo; Tosca and Rigoletto at the Royal Opera
House Covent Garden in London; Lucia di Lammermoor at the Théâtre du
Capitole in Toulouse and at the Metropolitan in New York, where he then
conducted L’Elisir d’Amore; Il Turco in Italia in Munich; Norma at
the Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla.
Plans include: productions at the Opéra
de Montecarlo (Adriana Lecouvreur, La Wally); at the Metropolitan Opera
in New York (Don Pasquale, Roberto Devereux and other important
productions); at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Lucia di Lammermoor); at
the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Opéra de Paris (Il Trovatore); at
the Opernhaus in Zurich (I Capuleti e I Montecchi). In the following
seasons he will return to the Royal Opera House in London conducting Nabucco, La Traviata. He will
conduct and record Leoncavallo’s Zazà for
Opera Rara in London.
Maurizio Benini has been
awarded “best conductor of the season” (2012) by the most important critics of
Spanish musical magazines and newspapers thanks to his interpretation of
Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur staged at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in
Barcelona.
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