Ljubka Biagioni zu Guttenberg

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Ljubka Biagioni zu Guttenberg , full name Ljubka Biagioni Freifrau von und zu Guttenberg , (born April 16, 1968 in Rome , Italy , as Ljubka Biagioni ) is a German conductor of Bulgarian-Italian descent.

Life

Career

Ljubka Biagioni was born to a Bulgarian woman and an Italian communist union leader. She grew up in Rome and attended a humanistic grammar school there . After many years of piano lessons she received a scholarship at the National Music Academy “Prof. Pantscho Wladigerow ” in Sofia , Bulgaria , where she trained as a choir and orchestra conductor in Georgi Robew's class and graduated with distinction. She also studied music theory there .

Further musical studies led Biagioni to Varna in Bulgaria to Karl Österreicher, to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome to Norbert Balatsch and Leonard Bernstein, and to the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena to Ferdinand Leitner and Valeri Abissalowitsch Gergijew . In 1997 she worked with Ilja Musin and again with Gergijew in Rotterdam . She then studied philosophy in Rome and also worked as an assistant conductor in numerous productions, such as at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo , the Arena di Verona , at the Salzburg Festival and in several other cities. The repertoire worked on ranged from Mozart , Bellini and Rossini to Verdi and Wagner to Richard Strauss . Later she also studied theology in Frankfurt am Main .

After a competition success at the Vienna Chamber Orchestra Biagioni undertook with the ensemble in 1996, an Austria - tour , with a performance at the Vienna Konzerthaus completed. In the same year she conducted Puccini's Manon Lescaut in Lucca , Pisa and Viareggio and worked on a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni with the Italian opera singer Ruggero Raimondi at Megaro Mousikis in Athens . In the 1996/97 season Biagioni was appointed Principal Guest Conductor at the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana , with whom she performed numerous concerts throughout Italy . In 1997 she gave concerts in Denmark with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and on tour in Greece with the La Camerata orchestra .

Since her marriage in 1997 she has had the surname Biagioni zu Guttenberg ( see section: Family ).

In 2002 Biagioni zu Guttenberg won the international conducting competition "Franco Capuana" organized by the European Union . At the Herrenchiemsee Festival , she conducted an opera series with semi-staged performances with her own direction and staging; Among other things she performed Verdi's La traviata in 2007, Verdi 's Nabucco in 2008 with Paolo Gavanelli in the title role, Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana in 2009 , Verdi's Rigoletto in 2010 and Falstaff in 2011 , also by Verdi. Since the beginning of 2010 she has been First Guest Conductor with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Philharmonic Choir “Svetoslav Obretenov” in Sofia and since 2011 “State Conductor” with these ensembles.

Her current repertoire ranges from Johann Sebastian Bach to Franz Lehár . In the field of opera, her main interest lies in the “Italian subject”. She has worked as a conductor with numerous orchestras .

family

From 1997 to 2016, Ljubka Biagioni was married to the German conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg (1946-2018), who had two children from his first marriage (1971-1977), the sons Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (* 1971) and Philipp Franz zu Guttenberg (* 1973). Since their marriage, Biagioni has had the surname Biagioni zu Guttenberg (completely Biagioni Freifrau von und zu Guttenberg ); she has two sons with her husband and has been divorced from him since 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Barbara Doll: Conductor zu Guttenberg: Pots, Flowers and Finances. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 14, 2011, archived from the original on August 24, 2014 ; accessed on June 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ljubka Biagioni. Herrenchiemsee Festival , accessed on June 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Hermann Weiß: Another Guttenberg. In: Welt am Sonntag . July 19, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Biagioni zu Guttenberg, Ljubka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biagioni Baroness von und zu Guttenberg, Ljubka (full name); Biagioni, Ljubka (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome