Francesco Corti (conductor)

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Francesco Corti (born October 17, 1963 in Milan ) is an Italian conductor .

Francesco Corti (Photo: Christopher Bowen)

Corti was among other things general music director at the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern, at the Magdeburg Theater and at the Scottish Opera in Glasgow.

Studies and musical training

Corti finished his school education in 1982 with the maturità classica. From 1976 he studied violin at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in his hometown. As a student of Franco Fantini, the long-time concertmaster of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala , he completed his studies in 1984 with a concert diploma. In the composition class he was a student of Bruno Bettinelli . In 1981 he attended a conducting seminar with Franco Ferrara in Bisceglie.

From 1983 he studied at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna in the conducting class of Reinhard Schwarz. He also attended Karl Österreicher's class at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , as well as the seminars of conductors Otmar Suitner and Joseph Mertin. He continued his violin studies with Anton Straka.

Artistic career

In 1986 Francesco Corti made his debut as a conductor at the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi (Italy) with Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata . In the following years he worked as an assistant with the conductors Giuseppe Patanè, Angelo Campori, Bruno Bartoletti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni and Nello Santi, from whom he acquired a confident approach to the Italian opera repertoire in particular. Until 1996 he appeared at numerous opera houses and concert stages, including the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , the Teatro Regio di Torino , the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona , the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Italy. In Spain he conducted the symphony orchestras of Seville, Bilbao, La Coruna, Gran Canaria and Tenerife. In France he was at the podium at the opera houses of Strasbourg, Avignon and Besançon. He has made guest appearances at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart, was a guest at the Korean National Theater in Seoul, conducted the Hungarian State Orchestra in Budapest and the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.

Fixed engagements

In the 1996/97 season Corti was appointed first conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf. He held this position for five seasons, during which he oversaw new productions of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor , Gioachino Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri and Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore .

In 2000 he was appointed general music director of the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern. Important new productions of these years were Verdi's Aida and Don Carlos , Richard Wagner's Lohengrin and Die Feen and Richard Strauss ' Salome and Arabella .

In 2006 he moved to the Magdeburg Theater as general music director . One of the highlights of his years in Magdeburg was the musical direction of the productions of Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunow , Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Idomeneo and Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk . As director of the Magdeburg Philharmonic , he oversaw over 60 symphony concerts until 2010.

From 2007 to 2013, Corti was Music Director of the Scottish Opera in Glasgow. Outstanding performances in these years were Gioachino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia , Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly , Bedřich Smetana's Two Widows and Puccini's La fanciulla del West at the Edinburgh International Festival. There were also concert performances of Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani , Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallos I Pagliacci in the Glasgow City Halls and Puccini's Turandot in the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. As new productions he directed the productions of Jules Massenet's Manon , Richard Strauss ' Intermezzo as a German-language premiere in Great Britain and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro .

Guest Conductor

International engagements have taken him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Halle Opera House , the Volksoper Vienna , Den Norske Opera in Oslo, the Gothenburg Opera and the San Francisco Opera . Corti has been a regular guest with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in Taichung since 2014 . There he directed Jonathan Dove's Community Opera The Monster in the Maze in 2016 as the first in-house production of the Taichung National Theater, which opened in the same year .

Recordings

Individual evidence

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  5. ^ Matthew Westphal: Scottish Opera, on the Mend, Appoints New Music Director. Playbill, August 8, 2007, accessed October 22, 2019 .
  6. ^ Barber of Seville conductor Francesco Corti talks about Rossini (recorded live). Audioboom, October 20, 2011, accessed October 22, 2019 .
  7. ^ Rowena Smith: I Puritani / Opera reviews. In: The Guardian. April 3, 2009, accessed September 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Kate Molleson: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci - review. In: The Guardian. June 6, 2012, accessed September 7, 2019 .
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  10. ^ Rowena Smith: Manon. In: The Guardian. May 22, 2009, accessed October 22, 2019 .
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  12. ↑ La Cenerentola (Cinderella). Volksoper Vienna, December 6, 2004, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Joshua Kosman: Opera's new cast delivers razor-sharp 'Barber'. In: SFGATE. January 13, 2004, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  14. ↑ The Monster in the Maze. National Taichung Theater, accessed September 10, 2019 (English, Chinese).
personal data
SURNAME Corti, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan