Fabio Luisi

Fabio Luisi (2009)

Fabio Luisi (born January 17, 1959 in Genoa ) is an Italian conductor . He is considered one of the leading interpreters of Italian operas and the late romantic repertoire and has won several international record awards for his recordings. He has been General Music Director (GMD) at the Zurich Opera House since 2012 and Chief Conductor of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2017 . He is also the designated music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for the 2020/21 season.

He was artistic director of the Grazer Symphoniker (1990–1996), chief conductor of the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich (1994–2000), chief conductor of the MDR Sinfonieorchester (1996–2007), music director of the Orchester de la Suisse Romande (1997–2002), chief conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker (2005–2013) and chief conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (2007–2010), where he was also general director of the Semperoper . In 2010/11 he represented the sick music director James Levine as first guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; from 2011 to 2017 he was Principal Conductor there .

As artistic or musical director he is a. the Pacific Music Festival in Japan (2004, 2008 and 2010–2012), the Festival della Valle d'Itria (since 2015) and the Opera di Firenze / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (since 2018).

Life

Origin and studies

Fabio Luisi was born in Genoa in 1959 as the son of a Tuscan locomotive driver. Luisi began piano training at the age of four . Because of a serious asthma illness , his parents were looking for a distraction and the decision fell on music. In his hometown Luisi attended the humanistic high school "Cristoforo Colombo" and graduated from high school in 1978, just a few weeks before he passed his piano diploma with 9.6 out of 10 as a private student of Memi Schiavina at the Conservatory "Niccolò Paganini" in Genoa.

Graz University of Music (before the renovation in 2008)

He then enrolled in Greek and Latin at the University of Genoa , but did not take any exams and continued to turn to music. In the same summer he met the Italian pianist Aldo Ciccolini in Orange in the south of France , who invited him to Paris for a master class and further piano studies . With him, Luisi particularly deepened the French repertoire of Claude Debussy and César Franck . At the same time he continued his piano studies in Italy with Antonio Bacchelli . In 1979 he took part in a master class for piano with Adam Harasiewicz at Grafenegg Castle in Lower Austria.

Two meetings were in Fabio Luisi mature desire to direct: the soprano Leyla Gencer , with whom he as an accompanist worked for opera and song, and with Rodolfo Celletti , of him as a coach to take place in the summer Festival della Valle d'Itria to Martina Franca invited. After two years as a contract teacher for music theory and chamber music at the “Giacomo Puccini” Conservatory in La Spezia in northern Italy, Luisi moved to Austria to begin his music director studies . The former chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , Milan Horvat , whom he had met in Genoa, and the operetta director of the Graz Opera , Walter Goldschmidt , became his most important teachers at the Graz University of Music . In 1983 he received his Kapellmeister diploma with distinction and shortly thereafter became Milan Horvat's assistant.

Professional background

Beginning in Graz and Vienna

After his assistantship, he began his first engagement as a répétiteur with conducting duties at the Graz Opera. He made his debut in 1984 as a conductor in Martina Franca ( Requiem by Domenico Cimarosa ), in the same year at the Graz Opera with the Opera buffa Viva la Mamma by Gaetano Donizetti and at the Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa in Genoa with Il turco in Italia by Gioachino Rossini . In the following years Luisi conducted other operas, operettas and ballets at the Graz Opera.

Luisi separated from the Graz Opera in 1987 and began an international conducting activity, which brought him as a guest to renowned opera houses and symphony orchestras. a. Staatstheater Stuttgart (1987), Nationaltheater Mannheim (1987), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (1988), Deutsche Oper Berlin (1988), Opéra national de Bordeaux (1988), Münchner Rundfunkorchester (1989) and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (1989). He turned down the offered successor to GMD Gabriele Ferro at the Stuttgart Opera because he was also conducting other contract negotiations. In 1989 he made his debut through the mediation of Wolfgang Sawallisch at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and at the Vienna State Opera . Since then, Luisi has been a permanent guest at these opera houses, with numerous conductors of repertoire performances, revivals and new productions. In 1990, under his artistic direction, which he held until 1996, the Graz Symphony Orchestra was re-established.

In 1995 Luisi became chief conductor of the Lower Austrian Tonkünstlerorchester in Vienna. With this orchestra he went on a tour to Japan in 1998 and conducted over 250 concerts by the end of his mandate in 2000, most of them in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein .

Conducted in Leipzig and Geneva

Together with fellow conductors Marcello Viotti and Manfred Honeck , Fabio Luisi took over from Daniel Nazareth in 1996 and thus became the artistic director of the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig. That “triumvirate” existed until 1999, after which Luisi became the orchestra's sole chief conductor. In 2005 he premiered Jean-Luc Darbellay's Requiem with the radio choir and orchestra . In addition to tours abroad and concerts in the broadcasting area, the focus of his work was the management of radio productions. There were recordings and a. of works by Mahler , Verdi , Berlioz , Franck and Bizet . Luisi let his contract expire in 2007 despite the offered extension until 2009.

In 1997 he succeeded Armin Jordan as music director of the Orchester de la Suisse Romande in Geneva (until 2002). With the orchestra he recorded several CDs a. a. a complete recording of the symphonic works by Arthur Honegger and two complete opera recordings for Philips. Foreign tours took him to Japan (1999) and Austria. In Switzerland he premiered Jean-Luc Darbellay's Oyama in 2000 . In 1997 he made his debut at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. In February 2000 Fabio Luisi made his debut in the United States with a concert with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and a few months later at the Lyric Opera in Chicago.

At the beginning of 2000, at the request of the artistic director Udo Zimmermann (2001–2003) , Luisi was appointed general music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin to succeed the outgoing GMD Christian Thielemann . In the next few months, however, there were public disputes with the state of Berlin, whose Senate ultimately refused to approve the contract due to Luisi's supposedly excessive salary demands. After Fabio Luisi, according to his own statements, was exposed to the “not very theater-competent Senator for Culture and some West Berlin politicians”, he resigned his office at the end of 2000 on the advice of Zimmermann. Behind the scenes, the overwhelming majority of the orchestra members and the parliamentary group leaders of the two people's parties, Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky (CDU) and Klaus Wowereit (Governing Mayor, SPD), spoke out in favor of the old GMD, Christian Thielemann from Berlin.

In 2004, 2008 and 2010–2012 he was artistic director and chief conductor of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo / Japan.

Engagements in Dresden and Vienna

Semperoper Dresden (2007)

In 2002 Luisi made her debut in a new production by the director Günter Krämer with the opera Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss at the Salzburg Festival . He was invited again in 2003 and 2006. At that time a constant collaboration with the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden began . His next tasks brought him to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and to the Semperoper in Dresden for new productions of Verdi and Puccini (2004). Luisi made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2005 with Verdi's Don Carlos . In 2005 he conducted two new productions by Verdi and Humperdinck at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich . He conducted his first Ring des Nibelungen in 2006 at the Semperoper.

In January 2004 Luisi was nominated as GMD of the Saxon State Opera Dresden and at the same time as chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden . His predecessor Bernard Haitink criticized the opaque voting behavior of the orchestra musicians and pleaded for a repetition of the voting, which the orchestra board and director Gerd Uecker rejected. Luisi took up his new position properly with the 2007/08 season. Luisi initiated together with the Klangnetz Dresden setting up an annually changing C apell-Compositeurs . From 2007 to 2009 Luisi conducted world premieres by the Capell composers Isabel Mundry (Balances) , Bernhard Lang (Monadologie II: A New Don Quichotte) and Rebecca Saunders (traces) . He has toured abroad with the orchestra a. a. to Asia and the USA.

In 2009, together with actress Nadja Uhl , he became President of the Foundation of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig .

In February 2010, Luisi prematurely terminated his engagement in Dresden with an extraordinary termination because, according to his statements, the management of the orchestra had not coordinated discussions with him about a New Year's Eve concert on ZDF . He insisted on his rights as general music director and saw insurmountable obstacles in further cooperation between the orchestra and the conductor. In this context, Luisi criticized the influence of the media on the programming and the associated reluctance of the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art . Its director, Sabine von Schorlemer , however demanded that Luisi fulfill the contract and threatened legal consequences. In the same month Luisi announced to the daily newspaper Die Presse “I am disavowed.” Christian Thielemann , who moved from the Munich Philharmonic to Dresden in the 2012/13 season, was chosen as his successor after Luisi had renounced a contract extension.

In 2005, Luisi was unanimously appointed chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as the successor to Vladimir Fedoseyev and immediately directed the lake stage production at the Bregenz Festival with Verdi's troubadour from 2005 to 2006 . On December 10, 2005, he conducted the world premiere of Bernhard Lang's DW 14 for saxophone, jazz trio and orchestral loops in the Wiener Konzerthaus , which was recorded by ORF . On the eve of October 26, 2006, he conducted the first concert for the national holiday , again in 2009. In addition to his extensive concert work with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, he conducted a. a. Productions of Mozart's La finta semplice and The Magic Flute in the Theater an der Wien . In 2008, the concert performance of Bellini's I Capuleti ei Montecchi with Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča followed in the Wiener Konzerthaus, in November 2011 an extensive US tour with concerts a. a. in New York and Chicago. The chief conducting for the Wiener Symphoniker ended in summer 2013.

Excursion to New York and positions in Zurich and Copenhagen

Luisi became Principal Guest Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2010 . For two concerts in 2011 he was criticized in some media because he had to cancel upcoming engagements with the Wiener Symphoniker and the San Francisco Symphony. For the 2012/13 season he was hired as Principal Conductor of the Met. He was to stand in for the sick James Levine until 2013 . The Met management meanwhile acted publicly as a potential successor to Levine. During this time, he taught in a master class at the Juilliard School in New York . Since 2018 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Montclair Orchestra in New Jersey.

In autumn 2012 Luisi was also appointed general music director and successor to Daniele Gatti at the Zurich Opera House for five years . He wants to campaign for a larger repertoire of the opera house orchestra. He is increasingly aiming for guest performances by the orchestra. For better marketing he had it renamed the Philharmonia Zurich . During his tenure, the Zurich Opera received the International Opera Award in the Opera Company category ; in 2018 Luisi was nominated in the Conductor category. In 2013 he was interviewed at La Scala in Milan . Although the majority of the orchestra members were in favor of him, the decision was ultimately made on Riccardo Chailly .

In protest against the request of the Genoese cultural commissioner, u. a. Involving the not undisputed juror Zakhar Bron as "ambassador", Luisi resigned from his position as chairman of the Premio Paganini violin competition in 2018 .

Luisi also has duties as music director in Italy: Festival della Valle d'Itria (since 2015), Accademia del Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti” (since 2016) and Opera di Firenze and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (since 2018; succeeding Zubin Mehta ). At the Festival della Valle d'Itria 2016 he was responsible for the world premiere of the rediscovered Dante opera Francesca da Rimini (1830/31) by Saverio Mercadante . In 2017 he conducted the Venice New Year's Concert at the Teatro La Fenice . Since the 2017/18 season he has been chief conductor of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen as the successor to Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , in addition to his work in Zurich . In June 2018 he was appointed music director-designate for the 2019/20 season with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Texas, where he will hold the Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship . From 2020/21 he will officially follow Jaap van Zweden .

In July 2019, Luisi announced his resignation as music director of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in a letter to Mayor Dario Nardella and managing director Cristiano Chiarot .

Family and work as a perfume manufacturer

Fabio Luisi is married to the photographer and violinist Barbara Luisi (* 1964). You have three children. In addition to Italian, Luisi speaks French, German and English. His brother Dario Luisi (* 1965) is a violinist, he has taught in Vienna, Milan, Venice and Graz. Since 2010 he has been the head of the “Early Music” department at the Johann Joseph Fux Conservatory in Graz .

In April 2011, Fabio Luisi founded FL Parfums LLC , based in New York City, and sells his own collection of natural fragrances.

meaning

The 179th Metropolitan Opera performance of Giuseppe Verdi Don Carlo (2005)

Fabio Luisi belongs to the younger generation of Italian conductors including Riccardo Chailly , Daniele Gatti and Antonio Pappano . The longtime director of the Vienna State Opera, Ioan Holender , stated in his laudation on the occasion of the award of the Austrian Cross of Honor: “Today Fabio Luisi is a leading conductor both in the concert field and in the wide world of opera, and one of the most important and best conductors in our house [...] He is one of those people who are called old-fashioned today, who have learned their trade from scratch. To those people who reached the summit by long, arduous ascent [...] ”. For Walter Dobner (music critic) Luisi is known "for his passion, style and musical competence". So far he has been "internationally successful with consistent, high-quality work". His experience shows him “as one of the leading conductors of his generation”. In his conversation with great conductors, Rupert Schöttle stated that the reserved Luisi “rose to the ranks of the world's most important conductors in a relatively short time”.

Luisi names conductors like Hermann Abendroth , Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt , Joseph Keilberth , Eugene Ormandy and Wolfgang Sawallisch as his role models because they were very hardworking and reserved in their ways. The former chief dramaturge of the Deutsche Oper, Karl Dietrich Graewe, called Luisi an "incorruptible trustee in his field". Peter Korfmacher , the culture editor in charge of the Leipziger Volkszeitung , sees Luisi as an unpretentious conductor. The Austrian conductor Otmar Suitner compared Fabio Luisi's conducting style with that of Leonard Bernstein , because both have a preference for energetic and precise tempos. The music critic Egon Bezold attested him elegance and dramaturgical tools. Through Luisi's flexible up and down in the musical representation, he leaves the vocal soloists freedom of expression during opera performances. The director of the Semperoper Ulrike Hessler described Luisi's management style as democratic. According to Hessler, he also has an experienced eye for young talented singers.

Fabio Luisi has an extensive repertoire. He is one of the leading interpreters of Italian operas and is particularly known as a proven Verdi expert. The music critic Georg-Friedrich Kühn interprets his interpretations as "supple, soft, with gliding tempos". Luisi feels equally committed to the late romantic repertoire of composers such as Gustav Mahler , Anton Bruckner and Richard Strauss . He has received several awards for his recordings. He also contributed to the rediscovery of the Austrian composer Franz Schmidt . In the field of contemporary music he brought works by u. a. Jean-Luc Darbellay and Bernhard Lang at the world premiere. Basically, however, he is critical of new music. He reported to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger : “Most of the new things are nothing. […] World premieres are often enough an alibi for an orchestra that says: Look, we're interested in new music. [...] Much more important are re-performances of contemporary music. "

Awards

State medals and decorations

• For the year 2000 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art through the contribution of the Art Affairs Section to the Federal Chancellery .
• Luisi received the Italian Order of Merit in June 2006 on the proposal of the Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri , d. H. the Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana .
• In August 2007 he was honored with the Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (già Stella della solidarietà italiana).

Academic honors

• Luisi was awarded an honorary professorship for conducting in December 2001 at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig .

Cultural awards

• The "Anton Bruckner Association of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra" awarded him the Anton Bruckner Ring in 2007 .
• After a successful season at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Filarmonica della Scala ( Teatro alla Scala ), Luisi was awarded the Premio della critica musicale “Franco Abbiati” of the Associazione Nazionale Critici Musicali in the category direttore in 2012.
• In 2014, his hometown Genoa awarded him the "Grifo d'Oro".

Record prices

• The Luxembourg music magazine Pizzicato honored the MDR recording “ Beethoven : Messe C-Dur ” with the Supersonic Award in the category Record of the Month January 2006.
• For the recording of "Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung " at the Met, he received the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording together with music director James Levine .
• In 2013 he was awarded the special prize of the International Mahler Record Prize “Dobbiaco Composing House” for his 2011 live recording from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw ( Gustav Mahler : Das Lied von der Erde ).
• For the live recording (2015) of the Zurich production “ Berg : Wozzeck ” he received the 2017 International Classical Music Award in the Video Performance category .

For the Strauss recording “ Eine Alpensinfonie op.64 / Vier letzte Lieder ” he received the ECHO-Klassik in 2008 together with the soprano Anja Harteros and the Staatskapelle Dresden in the category Surround Recording of the Year . One year later, the same orchestra received an award for “ Anton Bruckner , Symphony 9 ” in the category Orchestra of the Year . On April 18, 2018, however, he announced in a press release that he would distance himself from this award after the controversial awarding of the award to the rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang at the 2018 Echo Awards . He was u. a. quoted with: "It is shocking to see that a culture award knows no ethical standards, tolerates racism and ignorant content and even distinguishes it, if only the sales figures are correct".

Discography (selection)

CDs

• Arias by Chapi, Massenet, Offenbach, Rossini, Villa-Lobos, Montsalvatge, Strauss; Elīna Garanča , Sächsischer Staatsoperchor & Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2006; published by DGG 2007.
• Ludwig van Beethoven , Mass in C major ; Christiane Oelze , Claudia Mahnke , Christian Elsner , Franz-Josef Selig , MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig, MDR Sinfonieorchester, 2005; published by Querstand 2005.
• Vincenzo Bellini , Beatrice di Tenda ; Lucia Aliberti , Paolo Gavenelli, Camillo Capasso, Martin Thompson, John David de Haan, choir and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1991; published by Berlin Classics 2003.
• Vincenzo Bellini, I Capuleti ei Montecchi ; Elina Garanča , Anna Netrebko , Joseph Calleja , Robert Gleadow, Wiener Singakademie , Wiener Symphoniker, 2008; published by DGG 2009.
• Vincenzo Bellini, I puritani ; Edita Gruberova , Justin Lavender, Ettore Kim, Francesco Ellero d'Artegna, Katja Lytting, Dankwart Siegele, Carlo Duano, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, 1993; published by Nightingale Classics 1994.
• Hector Berlioz , Symphonie fantastique ; Philharmonia Zurich, 2013; published by Philharmonia Records 2014.
• Johannes Brahms , violin concerto , Robert Schumann , 4th symphony ; Arabella Steinbacher, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, 2007; published by Orfeo 2011.
• Anton Bruckner , 7th Symphony ; Lower Austrian Tonkünstlerorchester, 1998 (live); published by ORF Radio Niederösterreich in 1998.
• Anton Bruckner, 8th Symphony (Bruckner) , original version; Philharmonia Zurich, 2015; published by Philharmonia Records 2016.
• Anton Bruckner, 9th Symphony ; Saxon State Orchestra Dresden, 2007; published by Sony Classic 2008.
• Frédéric Chopin , Piano Concerto No. 2 , ballads no. 1 / 2 / 3 /4; Lise de la Salle, Staatskapelle Dresden, 2009; published by Naive 2010.
• Jean-Luc Darbellay , Oyama, Requiem; Julie Kaufmann , Iris Vermillion, Christoph Genz , MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig, MDR Sinfonieorchester, 2009; published by Claves 2010.
• Gaetano Donizetti , The Favorite ; Paolo Coni, Adelisa Tabiadon, Giuseppe Morino, Alessandra Ruffini, Michele Ferruggia, Alessandro Verducci, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, 1989; published by Nuova Era 2008.
• Arthur Honegger , Symphonies Nos. 1–5; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, 1999; published by Cascavelle Espace 2 2001.
• Gustav Mahler , 1st symphony ; Vienna Symphony Orchestra; published by Wiener Symphoniker (own label) 2012.
• Gustav Mahler, 2nd symphony ; Fionnula McCarthy, Jard van Nes, Wiener Singverein , NTO Tonkünstlerorchester, 1997 (live); published by ORF Radio Niederösterreich 1997.
• Gustav Mahler, 2nd symphony; Christiane Oelze , Mihoko Fujimura, MDR Symphony Orchestra, 2005; published by Querstand 2006.
• Gustav Mahler, 4th Symphony ; Sandra Trattnigg , MDR Symphony Orchestra, 1997; published by Querstand 2005.
• Gustav Mahler, 5th Symphony ; MDR Symphony Orchestra, 1997; published by Querstand 2005.
• Gustav Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde (chamber music version), songs of a traveling companion (chamber music version); Doris Soffel , Wolfgang Müller-Lorenz, Roman Trekel, MDR Symphony Orchestra, 1999; published by Querstand 2005.
• Frank Martin , The Way of Love and Death of the Cornet , Okka von der Damerau , Philharmonia Zurich, 2016; published by Philharmonia Records
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Idomeneo (adapted by Richard Strauss); Robert Gambill , Britta Stallmeister, Camilla Nylund , Iris Vermillion , Christoph Pohl, Jacques-Greg Belobo, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2006; published by Orfeo 2007.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto KV 488, Frédéric Chopin Variations op. 2, Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor. Margarita Höhenrieder , Vienna Symphony Orchestra; published by Solo Musica 2014.
• Sergej Rachmaninow , piano concertos, Paganini Variations; Lise de la Salle , Philharmonia Zurich, 2013–2015; published by Philharmonia Records 2015.
• Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow , Scheherazade , Philharmonia Zurich, 2016; published by Philharmonia Records
• Gioachino Rossini , Guillaume Tell ; Nancy Gustafson, Dawn Kotoski, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Thomas Hampson , Walter Fink, Egils Silins, choir and orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, 1998 (live); published by Orfeo 2005.
• Nino Rota , Musiques de films de Federico Fellini ; Amacord, Roma, La Strada, Otto e mezzo, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, 2001; published by RSR Elvia Espace 2 2001;
• Franz Schmidt , Symphonies Nos. 1–4; MDR Symphony Orchestra, 2004; published by Querstand 2005.
• Franz Schmidt, Concertante Variations on a Theme by Beethoven for piano (left hand) and orchestra, Concerto in E flat major for piano (left hand) and orchestra; Carlo Grante, MDR Symphony Orchestra, 2005/06; published by Querstand 2007.
• Franz Schmidt, The Book with Seven Seals ; Herbert Lippert, Jan-Hendrik Rootering , Annette Dasch, Natele Nicoli, Johannes Chum, Günther Groissböck, Michael Schönheit, MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig, MDR Sinfonieorchester, 2004; published by Querstand 2005.
• Robert Schumann, . Symphony # 1 / 2 / 3 /4, concert for 4 Horns & orchestra op. 86; Wiener Symphoniker, 2006-08; published by Orfeo 2010.
• Richard Strauss , Don Juan , From Italy, Don Quixote ; Jan Vogler, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2008; published by Sony Classical 2009.
• Richard Strauss, Don Quixote , Romance for cello and orchestra, Sonata in F minor for cello and piano; Jan Vogler , Louis Lortie, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2003/2008; published by Sony Classical 2009.
• Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben , Metamorphosen ; Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2006; published by Sony Classical 2007.
• Richard Strauss, Four Last Songs , An Alpine Symphony ; Anja Harteros , Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2006; published by Sony Classical 2007.
• Giuseppe Verdi , Alzira ; Marirona Mescheriakova, Ramón Vargas , Paolo Gavanelli, Torsten Kerl , Jana Iliev, Jovo Reljin, Wolfgang Barta, Slobodan Stankovic, Choeur du Grand Théâtre de Genève, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; published by Philips 2001.
• Giuseppe Verdi, Aroldo ; Neil Shicoff , Carol Vaness, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; published by Philips 2001.
• Giuseppe Verdi, Jerusalem ; Marina Mescheriakova , Marcello Giordani, Roberto Scandiuzzi, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; published by Philips 2000.
• Giuseppe Verdi, Preludes and Overtures, Philharmonia Zurich, 2017; published by Philharmonia Records 2017.
• Richard Wagner , preludes and interludes; Philharmonia Zurich, 2014; published by Philharmonia Records 2015.
• Riccardo Zandonai , Francesca da Rimini ; Elena Filipova, Frederic Kalt, Philippe Rouillon, Kenneth Riegel , Sofia Chamber Choir, Vienna Volksoper Choir, Vienna Symphony Orchestra; published by Koch Schwann - ORF 1997.

DVDs

• Ludwig van Beethoven , Piano Concerto No. 1 , Gustav Mahler, 1st Symphony , Harald Genzmer , Presto from the Suite for Piano in C major; Margarita Höhenrieder , Staatskapelle Dresden; published by Medici 2009.
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Missa solemnis ; Camilla Nylund , Birgit Remmert , Christian Elsner , René Pape , Dresden State Opera Choir, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2005 (live); published by Euroarts, ZDF, ARTE 2006.
• Vincenzo Bellini , I Capuleti e I Montecchi , Joyce DiDonato , Olga Kulchynska , Philharmonia Zürich, 2015; published by Philharmonia Records 2016.
• Alban Berg , Wozzeck ; Christian Gerhaher , Gun-Brit Barkmin , Brandon Jovanovich , Philharmonia Zürich, 2015; published by Philharmonia Records .
• Franz Lehár , The Land of Smiles , Julia Kleiter , Piotr Beczala , Philharmonia Zurich, 2017; will be released in 2018 by Philharmonia Records.
• Saverio Mercadante , Francesca da Rimini; Leonor Bonilla, Aya Wakizono, Merto Süngü, Antonio Di Matteo, Larisa Martinez, Ivan Ayon Rivas, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Coro della Filarmonica di Stato "Transilvania" di Cluj-Napoca, Cornel Groza, 2016 (live / world premiere); published by Dynamic 2017.
• Richard Strauss , Der Rosenkavalier ; Anne Schwanewilms , Kurt Rydl , Anke Vondung , Hans-Joachim Ketelsen , Maki Mori, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2007; published by Medici 2008.
• Giuseppe Verdi , Messa da Requiem ; Krassimira Stoyanova , Veronica Simeoni, Francesco Meli , Georg Zeppenfeld , Chor der Oper Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich, 2016; published by Philharmonia Records 2017.
• Giuseppe Verdi, Nabucco ; Leo Nucci , Peter Dvorský , Giacomo Prestia, Maria Guleghina, choir & orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, 2001; published by TDK 2009.
• Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto ; Diana Damrau , Juan Diego Flórez , Zeljko Lucic, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, 2008; published by EMI 2010.
• Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto ; Aleksandra Kurzak , Saimir Pirgu , Quinn Kelsey, Philharmonia Zurich , 2014; published by Philharmonia Records .
• Richard Wagner , The Ring of the Nibelung ; Stephanie Blythe, Jonas Kaufmann , Hans-Peter König, Jay Hunter Morris, Eric Owens , Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel , Deborah Voigt , Eva-Maria Westbroek , Orchestra and Choir of the Metropolitan Opera, James Levine, 2010–2012; published by DGG 2012.

Fonts (selection)

Autobiography

• First half way. Autobiography. Recorded by Walter Dobner . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77737-3 .

Forewords

• Ernest Hoetzl: Music History Today? Attempt a perspective. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-205-98373-4 , p. 9 f.
• Patrick Lo: Conversations with the World's Leading Orchestra and Opera Librarians. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-5542-5 , pp. IX f.

literature

• Triumvirate: Manfred Honeck, Fabio Luisi and Marcello Viotti. In: Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra . Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 , p. 159 ff.
• Klaus Hubmann : Luisi, brothers. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
• Luisi, Fabio. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 13398.
• Björn Achenbach: Italian for beginners. The MDR Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi . In: Leipziger Blätter 44 (2004), p. 4 f.
• Fabio Luisi. In: Julia Spinola: The great conductors of our time. With a detailed lexicon part. Henschel, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89487-480-5 , pp. 246-247.
• Luisi, Fabio. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 286.
• Luisi, Fabio. In: Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne Kennedy: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Oxford Paperback Reference) . 5th edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-920383-3 , p. 216.
• Walter Weidringer: Quintet. From the Lower Austrian Tonkünstlerorchester to nto 1975-2003 . In: Rainer Lepuschitz (Ed.): Die Tonkünstler, 1907–2007. Orchestra stories from Vienna and Lower Austria . Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7017-3060-5 , p. 104 ff.
• Luisi, Fabio. In: Wolfgang Suppan : Steirisches Musiklexikon . 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition of the 1962–1966 edition. Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-201-01888-3 , p. 429.
• Julian Caskel: Luisi, Fabio . In: Julian Caskel, Hartmut Hein (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7618-2174-9 , pp. 261–262.
• The cautious: Fabio Luisi . In: Rupert Schöttle : The wisdom of the gods. Great conductors in conversation . Styria Premium, Vienna a. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-222-13544-6 , p. 129 ff.

Web links

Commons : Fabio Luisi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Fabio Luisi (English)
• Fabio Luisi at the Zurich Opera House (German), at the DR SymfoniOrkestret (Danish), at the Festival della Valle d'Itria Maggio (English), at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Italian) and with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (English)
• Literature by and about Fabio Luisi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Fabio Luisi in the Munzinger Archive , retrieved from the International Biographical Archive 30/2013 from July 23, 2013 (ds) Supplemented by news from the MA Journal until week 23/2018 ( beginning of the article freely available)
• Fabio Luisi at Allmusic (English)
• Fabio Luisi at the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

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38. ↑ Anthony Tommasini: Guest No Longer, Conductor Raises His Profile at Met. The New York Times' Online September 16, 2011.
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56. ↑ Elisabeth Richter: Torn from the Inferno: Zurich's General Music Director Fabio Luisi lands a premiere coup at his Festival della Valle d'Itria . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 17, 2016, p. 48.
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