From the moment they were performed, Gioachino Rossini’s overtures have enjoyed the status of colourful, elegant orchestral showpieces. With their sweet cantilene, their rich harmonies, their brilliant orchestration, and their powerful and exciting rhythmic drive, these overtures encapsulate all that was modern, exhilarating and electrifying in Rossini’s music, yet…

Michele Mariotti is returning to the Paris Opéra to conduct the first new production of the 2018-2019 season. From September 28 to October 20 he will be interpreting Giacomo Meyerbeer’s grand-opéra Les Huguenots at the Opéra Bastille, with the stage direction of Andreas Kriegenburg. Lead interpreters are Lisette Oropesa…

After its success in 2016 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, “La donna del lago” by Gioachino Rossini returns on stage at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, in the production with the conduction by Michele Mariotti and with the direction by Damiano Michieletto, from May 5 to 15….

On April 17th Michele Mariotti faces for the first time the score of Giuseppe Verdi I Lombardi alla prima crociata at the Teatro Regio of Turin. On stage Giuseppe Gipali as Arivinio, Alex Esposito as Pagano, Lavinia Bini as Viclinda and Francesco Meli as Oronte. The Teatro Regio new production…

Michele Mariotti will lead the Teatro Comunale of Bologna’s Orchestra and Choir on Stabat Mater by Antonín Dvořák in the Basilica of San Petronio, the main church of the city in Piazza Maggiore, on March 28th at 20.30. The concert features the voices of the soprano Charlotte-Anne Shipley, of mezzosoprano…

Next March the 25th Michele Mariotti returns in Berlin for a simphony concert on the Deutschen Oper Orchestra’s podium. The program features Glinka’s Ouverture from Ruslan and Lyudmila, soloist Martin Wagemann; Šostakovič’s Piano Concert No 1 op. 35, soloist Denis Kozhuking; Čajkovskij’s Symphony No 4 op. 36. > Deutsche Oper…

On February 24th Michele Mariotti will conduct the first performance at the Teatro alla Scala in the French version of Orphée et Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck. On stage Juan Diego Flórez as Orphée, Christiane Karg as Euridice, Fatma Said – coming from the Academy of Teatro alla Scala…

Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor (D.759) “Unfinished” Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98   Orchestra Haydn Michele Mariotti, conductor   February 6, 2018 Auditorium, Bolzano February 7, 2018 Auditorium, Trento   >Orchestra Haydn

Michele Mariotti opens the 2018 Concert Season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna on February 1st with a Beethoven-Mahler program. Beginning at 8:30 PM, the concert features Beethoven’s Elegischer Gesang Op. 118, Beethoven’s Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt Op. 112 and Mahler’s Symphony no. 4. With Christiane Karg as soloist…

Michele Mariotti will be opening the 2018 Season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna conducting La Bohème on January 19th. The new production – by stage director Graham Vick – will be on stage until January 28th, with a cast including Mariangela Sicilia and Alessandra Marianelli as Mimì, Francesco…