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Tuscan conductor Nicola Luisotti serves as Music Director of San Francisco Opera and – this season –
begins his tenure as Music Director of Teatro di San
Carlo in Naples, one of Italy’s oldest and most historic theaters.
In
the past decade, Maestro Luisotti has received
enormous critical acclaim for performances with many of the world’s most
respected opera companies and orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, San
Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera, Paris
Opera, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, and
nearly all the major opera houses in Germany. In his native Italy, Maestro Luisotti has worked with La Scala,
La Fenice, Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Carlo Felice in addition to leading the Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI.
As
Music Director of San Francisco Opera, Luisotti will
conduct great works of Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Wagner: Rigoletto,
Tosca, Così fan tutte and
his first Lohengrin during the 2012-13
Season. The Maestro returns to Milan and London for Verdi’s Nabucco,
in a new production shared by La Scala and Royal
Opera. Appointed Music Director of Teatro di San
Carlo in February of 2012, Luisotti will follow his
highly acclaimed February 2012 performances of Verdi’s rarely performed opera I Masnadieri with performances of the composer’s
monumental Requiem scheduled for early 2013.
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In
demand as an orchestral conductor as well as an operatic leader, Luisotti will also make appearances with four orchestras
this season including Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestre de Paris,
Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome and his own San Francisco Opera Orchestra in
programs anchored by great works such as Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3,
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, and Brahms’s Symphony
No. 3.
Maestro Luisotti made his La Scala debut in May of 2011, conducting Verdi’s Attila, in a new co-production
by Gabriele Lavia which was then performed by San Francisco Opera this past
June. Recent triumphs also included Puccini’s rarely performed La fanciulla del West which Luisotti led at both the Metropolitan Opera and San
Francisco Opera. At the Metropolitan Opera, Luisotti was honored to lead performances commemorating the birth of this important
Puccini work, the Met Opera’s first world premiere commission in 1910.
Following the official 100th Anniversary
performance, Luisotti was awarded the Premio Puccini Prize by the Fondazione Festival Pucciniano.
Luisotti made his San Francisco Opera debut in
2005 conducting La forza del destino and has since led performances of La bohème,
Il trovatore, Salome, Otello,
La fanciulla del West, Aida, Le nozze di Figaro, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Don Giovanni, Carmen and Attila with the company. In
addition to regular conducting with the Metropolitan Opera, Luisotti’s North American operatic work has included Seattle Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and
Canadian Opera Company. He has also led opera productions and orchestral
concerts in Japan’s Suntory Hall, where he served as Principal Conductor of the
Tokyo Symphony from April 2009 to 2012.
Equally
acclaimed as an orchestral leader, the Italian conductor has worked with
Frankfurt’s Alte Oper,
Atlanta Symphony, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Budapest Radio Orchestra, Hamburger
Philharmonic, Hessischer Rundfunk Orchestra, London Philharmonia, NHK Symphony,
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orquesta Nacional de España, Philadelphia
Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle,
Tokyo Symphony, and Zagreb Philharmonic. Luisotti also led special concerts in Beijing in conjunction with the 2008 Olympic Games.
Maestro Luisotti’s discography includes a complete recording
of Stiffelio (Dynamic), the critically
acclaimed Duets (Deutsche Grammophon) and he
is on the podium for the DVD recordings of the Met’s La bohème (EMI) and their centennial production of La fanciulla del West (Deutsche Grammophon).
Updated: August 2012 (Karen Ames)
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