Paolo Carignani

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Paolo Carignani (* 1961 in Milan ) is an Italian musician and conductor .

life and work

Carignani studied organ, piano and composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan . From 1980 he then worked in Rome as an organist . He later played jazz and pop music in bars until he decided to study orchestral conducting with Alceo Galliera. In addition to his studies, he played the piano and also on the organs in the churches of Milan.

He made his debut as a conductor in 1987 with the San Remo Symphony Orchestra. Then he was employed at the Trieste Opera for two years as assistant to the artistic director. In 1996 he conducted 'Attila' in Macerata , where he was discovered by Alexander Pereira and engaged for the Zurich Opera.

In September 1997, he was, as a substitute for the ailing Sylvain Cambreling , a baton of Giuseppe Verdi's Luisa Miller at the Frankfurt Opera invited. After this performance he was offered this position by the orchestra board when they were looking for a new general music director for the house, which he held from 1999 to 2008 , together with the position of artistic director of the concerts of the Frankfurter Museumsgesellschaft . During this time Carignani has conducted over 50 different operas and a large number of concerts in Frankfurt.

He conducted concerts a. a. with the Munich Philharmonic , the Orchestra of the RAI Turin , the Milan Verdi Orchestra , the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie , the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the RSO Vienna and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne . For his conducting of ' Le nozze di Figaro ' at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, the Italian received the 'Prince of Wales' critics' award in 1991.

Guest performances led Carignani a. a. to the Vienna and Munich State Operas , to the Concertgebouw and De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, to the Zurich Opera House , the War Memorial in San Francisco, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, to the Glyndebourne Festival , to the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Norske Opera in Oslo.

At the Bregenz Festival in 2015 he conducted Puccini's Turandot as a play on the lake and in 2016 the new production of a rediscovery: Amleto by Franco Faccio with Pavel Černoch in the title role (orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klassik.com - Paolo Carignani in an interview with Midou Grossmann. Retrieved August 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Carignani, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musician and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan