Nicola Luisotti

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Nicola Luisotti (born November 26, 1961 in Viareggio ) is an Italian conductor .

Life

Youth and education

Nicola Luisotti grew up in a musical family in Bargecchia in the province of Lucca . As a child he was interested in music and took lessons on the church organ . At the age of eleven he led the church choir in his village. He later studied piano , trumpet , composition and conducting in Lucca . After completing his studies, he commuted between Milan , where he was rehearsal pianist at the Teatro alla Scala , Florence , where he sang in the choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opera festival , and Pisa , where he had the opportunity to take part in a master class with the conductor Piero Bellugi . Later posts allowed him to assist conductors such as Lorin Maazel and Riccardo Muti at La Scala in Milan .

Career

Marcello Giordani, Elisabete Matos, Nicola Luisotti (right) in an evocation after a performance

Nicola Luisotti had his first full-time position as a choirmaster at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice . He made his conductor debut in 1997 in Catania, conducting a requiem by Luigi Cherubini . His first professional opera performances were a production of Giuseppe Verdi's Stiffelio in Triest in 2000 and a production of Verdi's Il trovatore at the Stuttgart State Theater in 2001. Luisotti became Stuttgart's principal conductor for the Italian repertoire and in 2006 he conducted Giacomo Puccini's operas Tosca , Turandot and Madama Butterfly and Verdi's Otello . His Stuttgart Il trovatore was critically acclaimed and he was then offered a debut engagement at the Paris Opera . He had other early engagements with the Canadian Opera Company (with Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in 2003), at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (with Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims in 2003 and Verdi's Simon Boccanegra in 2004) and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (with Puccini's Tosca in 2004). He made his debut in Japan with a production of Tosca at Suntory Hall in Tokyo .

Luisotti made his debut at the San Francisco Opera in 2005 as the conductor of Verdi's La forza del destino . In January 2007, the Opera House announced its appointment as third music director (after Sir John Pritchard and Donald Runnicles ), which took effect in the 2009/2010 season. Since then he has studied and conducted more than forty operas here, including Aida , Madama Butterfly , La traviata , Don Giovanni , Attila , Il trovatore , Otello , Lohengrin , La bohème , La fanciulla del West , Salome , Andrea Chénier and Don Carlos . His work at the San Francisco Opera also included the world premiere of Marco Tutino's opera La Ciociara (Two Women). In May 2016, the San Francisco Opera announced that Luisotti would end his musical direction at the San Francisco Opera after the 2017/2018 season.

Parallel to his engagement at the San Francisco Opera, Luisotti directed the performances of Puccini's La fanciulla del West at the Metropolitan Opera in 2010 for the 100th anniversary of the premiere in 1910. For this he was awarded the Puccini Prize by the Fondazione Festival Puccini .

From February 2012 to December 2014 he was - as successor to Jeffrey Tate - music director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples . Here he conducted Verdi's operas I masnadieri and Aida, among others .

Further engagements in the recent past have included a symphonic concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam , Verdi's Rigoletto at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan , Puccini's Il Trittico and Verdi's La traviata at the London Royal Opera and Verdi's Rigoletto at the Opéra Bastille in Paris . Luisotti has also appeared at the Vienna State Opera , Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice, Venice's La Fenice , Bologna's Teatro Comunale , Munich's Bavarian State Opera, in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dresden, Hamburg, Valencia, the Los Angeles Opera , the Seattle Opera and in Tokyo Suntory Hall found international recognition.

During the 2016/2017 opera season Luisotti Ruggero conducted Leoncavallos Pagliacci at the Teatro Regio di Torino as well as Verdi's La traviata and the National Council Grand Finals Concert at the Metropolitan Opera. He opened the 95th season at the San Francisco Opera with Puccini's Turandot and Verdi's La traviata.

Private life

Nicola Luisotti and his wife, Rita Simonini, live near Corsanico , Italy, where Simonini grew up, and in San Francisco, where the couple got married.

Awards

  • 2010: Premio Puccini from the Fondazione Festival Puccini

Discography

Luisotti's discography includes a complete recording of Giuseppe Verdi's Stiffelio and the album Duets with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón on Deutsche Grammophon .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tamara Straus: Bay Area arts news. February 23, 2012, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Nicola Luisotti. Accessed February 4, 2018 .
  3. ^ Richard Scheinin: New music director Nicola Luisotti brings excitement about music's mysteries to SF Opera. September 16, 2009, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Exclusive interview with conductor Nicola Luisotti. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c Nicola Luisotti. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c A Maestro of Music and Metaphor: An Interview with Nicola Luisotti. November 17, 2012, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  7. ^ Georgia Rowe: SF Opera's passionate music director prepares to bid adieu. October 3, 2017, accessed February 4, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Christoph Wurzel: Competition for Milano. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
  9. ↑ San Francisco Opera appoints Nicola Luisotti as Music Director beginning in the 2009-10 season. (PDF) Archived from the original on January 14, 2010 ; accessed on February 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Joshua Kosman: Nicola Luisotti named Opera's music director, starting in 2009. January 10, 2007, accessed on February 3, 2018 (English).
  11. ↑ a b c Nicola Luisotti. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
  12. ↑ a b c Nicola Luisotti. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Nicola Luisotti to mark his final season as San Francisco Opera Music Director in 2017-18. (PDF) May 18, 2016, accessed February 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Luisotti, Nicola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Viareggio