ANTONINO FOGLIANI

Antonino Fogliani graduated as a pianist before studying conducting with Vittorio Parisi at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He specialised in Siena at the Accademia Chigiana with Franco Donatoni and Ennio Morricone, and served as assistant to the conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti. He made his début at the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival of 2001 with Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, followed by further engagements in Pesaro and in other well-known opera houses, including the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Rome Teatro dell’Opera, Naples Teatro San Carlo and the Paris Opéra Comique, as well as at the Bergamo Donizetti Festival. At La Scala, Milan, he conducted, among other works, Ugo re d’Italia and a new production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. In the 2011/12 season he conducted Aida at the Houston Grand Opera and the Parma Teatro Regio, Lucia di Lammermoor at the Nationale Reisopera, Enschede and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, L’amico Fritz at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, and La traviata at the Opéra de Montréal. He made his début in 2004 at ROSSINI IN WILDBAD, where his recordings for Naxos include Rossini’s Ciro in Babilonia, Mosè in Egitto, Otello, L’occasione fa il ladro, Vaccaj’s La sposa di Messina and Mercadante’s Don Chisciotte. In 2011 he was named musical director of the festival.

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Role: Conductor
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