Daniele Rustioni
Daniele Rustioni (born 1983 in Milan ) is an Italian conductor .
life and work
Rustioni studied at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Gilberto Serembe was one of his teachers. From 2008 to 2009 he was Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, assisted the local music director Antonio Pappano afterwards and later took on performances as a conductor in Covent Garden.
He made his concert debut in 2007 at the Teatro Regio di Torino , where he conducted an opera for the first time in 2008 - Puccini's La Bohème . These debuts were made possible by his mentor Gianandrea Noseda . Since then he has developed a broad operatic repertoire, which ranges from bel canto to Giuseppe Verdi to verismo , but almost exclusively contains works by Italian composers. Rustioni conducts the comic operas L'occasione fa il ladro , Il signor Bruschino , Il turco in Italia , L'italiana in Algeri and Il viaggio a Reims by Gioachino Rossini , L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti and the tragic works Anna Bolena and Roberto Devereux , by Vincenzo Bellini Norma . The conducted by him Verdi operas ranging from early works such as Nabucco , I masnadieri , Luisa Miller and Stiffelio , about the realistic Trias, Rigoletto , Trovatore Il and La traviata , and the median work, Simone Boccanegra , Un ballo in maschera and Aida to on Falstaff's late work . From the verismo field, Puccini's Madama Butterfly and his Trittico , Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallos Pagliacci are among his repertoire. Occasionally he also conducts Mozart ( Le nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte ), from the French repertoire only La Juive by Jacques Fromental Halévy so far .
Rustioni was able to complete a remarkable career within a short time:
- In addition to his engagements in Covent Garden, where he has conducted operas by Verdi, Rossini and Donizettis, from 2011 he took on engagements at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff and the Opera North in Leeds.
- In Italy he conducted at the Teatro alla Scala in his hometown of Milan, at the Roman Opera , at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona and in the Arena di Verona , at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, in the Opera of Florence and on Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, where he was musical director from 2012 to 2014, in Reggio nell'Emilia and Trevisio.
- In October 2011 he was invited to the Lithuanian National Theater in Vilnius, in September 2013 to the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg. In 2011 he made his US debut at the Glimmerglass Festival with Cherubinis Médée , and in March 2013 he directed a series of Norma performances at the Washington National Opera . In the 2013/14 season he made his debut at the Nikikai Opera in Japan. He was a guest at the Budapest Festival with the Neapolitan Opera .
- In the German-speaking area he conducted at the Munich Opera Festival , at the Württemberg State Opera in Stuttgart, at the State Opera Unter den Linden , at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Zurich Opera House .
- In France he has so far been signed by the Opéra National de Paris and the Opera de Lyon . In August 2016 he conducted two performances of La traviata with the Chorégies d'Orange .
- He made his debut in April 2017 at the Metropolitan Opera New York, in April 2019 at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
In the concert hall, Handel's Messiah , Rossini's Stabat mater and Verdi's Messa da Requiem are among Rustioni's standard repertoire. He has conducted the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana , the BBC Philharmonic , the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic .
Rustioni became chief conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana in 2014 . At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, he also took on the role of chief conductor of the Opéra National de Lyon for five years. In September 2019 he also became chief conductor of the Ulster Orchestra .
Discography
- Arias - Erwin Schrott (bass baritone), with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Daniele Rustioni, Sony Classical 2012 (CD)
- Verdi: Il trovatore , RAI 5 recording by the Teatro alla Scala, directed by Daniele Rustioni (DVD)
Competitions and awards
- 2008: Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition, 2nd place
- 2013: International Opera Award as Best Newcomer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography (English)
- ↑ Orchestra della Toscana: Daniele Rustioni ( Memento from July 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 25, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Dervan: Ulster Orchestra's new principal conductor: 'Opera was in my DNA'. In: The Irish Times . September 24, 2019 .
Other sources
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden , short biography of the conductor
- State Opera in the Schiller Theater Berlin , short biography of the conductor
Web links
- Daniele Rustioni , official website
- Daniele Rustioni at Operabase (engagements and dates)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rustioni, Daniele |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian conductor |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan , Italy |