Ottavio Dantone
Ottavio Dantone (born October 9, 1960 in Cerignola ) is an Italian harpsichordist , pianist and conductor who is best known for his recordings of baroque music . Since 1996 he has been the musical director of the Accademia Bizantina in Ravenna .
life and work
Ottavio Dantone studied at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan , where he graduated in harpsichord and organ . His passion for early music crystallized early on. In 1989 he began working with the Accademia Bizantina , first as a harpsichordist, and from 1996 as the ensemble's musical director. In 1999 he made his debut as an opera conductor at the Teatro Dante Alighieri in Ravenna - with the first performance of Giuseppe Sarti's Giulio Sabino in recent times. Significant debuts followed:
- 2005 at La Scala in Milan with Handel's Rinaldo ,
- 2011 with the same opera and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Glyndebourne Festival Opera ,
- 2012 in concert with Tito Manlio von Vivaldi at the Theater an der Wien ,
- 2016 with Mozart's Così fan tutte , staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf at the Salzburg Festival .
He taught at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana . One of his students was the Swiss composer Fabio Tognetti . He conducted at the Zurich Opera House , played at the Haydn Festival in Burgenland and is a regular guest at the Festival de Beaune . He has also made guest appearances at the Berlin State Opera, the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Bremen Music Festival , at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona (with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo ) and at the Opéra National de Paris (with Rossini's La Cenerentola ).
He is married to the French contralto Delphine Galou and has one daughter.
Recordings (selection)
All with the Accademia Bizantina , unless otherwise stated:
- Antonio Caldara : Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo . With Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Cristo), Roberta Invernizzi (Maddalena), Silvia Frigato (Marta), Damien Guillon (Amor Celeste), Delphine Galou (Amor Terreno), Riccardo Novaro (Fariseo). Live from the days of early music in Herne , broadcast on WDR 3 , November 15, 2014
- Antonio Vivaldi : Tito Manlio . With Nicola Ulivieri (Tito), Karina Gauvin (Manlio), Ann Hallenberg (Servilia), Marijana Mijanovic (Vitelia), Debora Beronesi (Lucio), Barbara Di Castri (Decio), Mark Milhofer (Geminio), Christian Senn (Lindo); October 2004 (studio recording), Naïve / Opus OP 30413 [3CDs]
- Vivaldi: In Furore, Laudate Pueri, Concerti Sacri. With Sandrine Piau , Stefano Montenari . Naïve (CD, 2006)
Awards
- 1985: Basso Continuo prize at the International Paris Festival
- 1986: Laureate at the International Festival of Bruges
- 2014: Bremen Music Festival Prize (together with the Accademia Bizantina)
Web links
- Ottavio Dantone , official website (archive version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freeman (December 2000)
- ↑ El Diario Vasco (October 20, 2009)
- ^ Rinaldo: Glyndebourne Festival 2011 . Glyndebourne. Archived from the original on January 16, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ↑ Quoted here. According to Vivaldi: Tito Manlio Opera Today. Retrieved August 8, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dantone, Ottavio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian harpsichordist, pianist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cerignola |