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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.
Future plans: Luisa Miller, La
Bohème, Aida, Il Trovatore, Falstaff in Munich; Edgar at the Salzburg
Festival; La Traviata in Bilbao; Nabucco, Andrea Chénier and Tosca
in Vienna; Tosca in Barcelona; Rigoletto in Strasbourg;
Guillaume Tell in Amsterdam; Otello, Le Convenienze e
Inconvenienze Teatrali and I pazzi per progetto in Zurich.
He will be engaged in an important production at the Metropolitan in New York. He will conduct also
symphonic concerts in Dallas, Tokyo and Amsterdam.
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