Alessandro Zuppardo

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Alessandro Zuppardo (* 1959 in Tunis ) is an Italian pianist and choir director. From the 2011/2012 season to 2017 he was choir director at the Leipzig Opera .

Live and act

Zuppardo studied piano and composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome . He started composing at 17 and performed one of his first pieces himself. He worked as a pianist or choirmaster in various opera houses such as the Nice Opera , the Opéra de Monaco , the Arena di Verona , the Macerata Opera Festival , the Teatro La Fenice and in the 2010/2011 season at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi (Trieste) . Zuppardo previously worked at the Frankfurt Opera from 2003 to 2008 and before that at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

After working with the Leipzig Opera he was choir director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt , at the Royal Opera and currently at the Opéra du Rhin .

With the choir of the Leipzig Opera he has rehearsed concerts in the Gewandhaus , as well as in the KKL - Lucerne, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Albert Hall , under the direction of Riccardo Chailly , Herbert Blomstedt , Alan Gilbert and Andris Nelsons u. a.

He has accompanied singers such as Teresa Berganza , Renato Bruson and Cecilia Bartoli at opera houses in Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and Taiwan. Zuppardo also led master classes in Mexico, Portugal, Japan and Taiwan.

Most recently, the first CD of poems by Francis Poulenc by Guillaume Apollinaire was released in 2010 in collaboration with the singer Holger Falk , then until 2013 with two further CDs (poems by Paul Éluard, Louise de Vilmorin - Various Poets) he has the project, the complete recording of songs for male voice, finished.

In cooperation with the University of Leipzig - Institute for Romance Studies, he has given a series of workshops and lectures on unison since 2013 ( Risorgimento intermediale - Verdi, Verga, Visconti , 2013), Traviata (2014), Pagliacci (2015), Turandot (2016 ), Music and nerve stimulation - a reflection on the leitmotif (2016), Madama Butterfly (2017), Boire et manger sur le plateau: un moment de vérité (2017), Codificazioni dell'Eros ne "La Calisto" di Francesco Cavalli (2017) . In October 2017 he gave a lecture on Madama Butterfly and La Rondine for the Italian Cultural Institute in London.

From June 2016 he is a member of the scientific committee of the CiCi (Centro Interdisciplinare di Cultura italiana) and KKW ( KunstKraftWerk ) in Leipzig.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://italiani-a-lipsia.de/it/eventiit/118-conversazione-alessandro-zuppardo.html
  2. ^ Paula Schleicher: Interview with Alessandro Zuppardo; in: Leipziger Volkszeitung from June 6, 2011, p. 9
  3. ↑ a b biography on the Leipzig Opera website , accessed on March 5, 2018
  4. ↑ Biography on the Darmstadt State Theater website , accessed on December 8, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Zuppardo, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pianist and choirmaster
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis