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; Il Trovatore at the Dutsch
National Opera in Amsterdam, new production directed by La Fura dels Baus.
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 and Les Vêpres siciliennes.
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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