Speranza Scappucci

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Speranza Scappucci (born April 9, 1973 in Rome ) is an Italian conductor and pianist .

Life

Education, pianist and répétiteur

Speranza Scappucci completed a piano degree at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome, and at the Juilliard School in New York City she trained as a répétiteur . As a pianist she appeared in 1999 in the Alice Tully Hall of the Lincoln Center with the Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Mariana Karpatova and made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2001 with Mozart's piano concerto KV 466 . From 2001 to 2006 Scappucci was a répétiteur at the Glyndebourne Festival , from 2007 she worked at the Metropolitan Opera with James Levine and with Riccardo Muti at the Salzburg Festival and at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma as répétiteur and musical assistant. She has also worked as a répétiteur at the New York City Opera , the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Santa Fe Opera .

Conductor

In 2012 she made her debut as a conductor at the Yale Opera of the Yale School of Music with Così fan tutte , followed by I Capuleti ei Montecchi in 2013 . Further conductors followed in 2013/14 at the Glimmerglass Festival as well as at the Scottish Opera Glasgow and the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, where she directed performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni . In 2015 she conducted the Rossini opera La Cenerentola at the Washington National Opera , the Opéra comique La fille du régiment at the Santa Fe Opera and the Verdi opera Attila at the Mariinsky Theater . In 2016 she made her debut at the LA Opera in Los Angeles with La Bohème , at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with Mozart's Great Mass in C minor and at the Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro with the Opera buffa Il turco in Italia .

In November 2016 she stood for the first time at the conductor's podium at the Vienna State Opera , where she was previously also employed as a répétiteur and pianist. In 2017 she conducted the opening of the Vienna Opera Ball . Furthermore she led u. a. Così fan tutte at the Opera di Roma and La fille du régiment at the Zurich Opera House . In September 2017 she succeeded Paolo Arrivabeni as chief conductor of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie . In this role she conducted a new production by Manon Lescaut and in 2018 a new production by Carmen . In May 2019 she conducted the open-air concert of the Wiener Symphoniker in the MuseumsQuartier , at the end of August 2020 she conducted a concert at the Grafenegg Festival with the Wiener Symphoniker and Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov .

Discography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musica Maestra! . Article dated February 8, 2016, accessed March 10, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Vienna Concert Association: Pianist Speranza Scappucci . Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Landestheater Salzburg: Ensemble - Speranza Scappucci . Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ Speranza Scappucci's appearances at the Vienna State Opera
  5. ↑ Speranza Scappucci - Conductors - Vienna State Opera . Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  6. ^ Orf.at: Opera Ball: Debut for President and Chancellor . Article dated February 17, 2017, accessed February 18, 2017.
  7. ↑ Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège calls for the first conducting competition devoted exclusively to an operatic repertoire ( Memento of July 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated July 3, 2017.
  8. ^ Manon Lescaut - Opéra Royal Wallonie-Liège (2017) (Production - Liège, belgique) | Opera Online - Le site des amateurs d'art lyrique. Retrieved February 13, 2018 (French).
  9. ↑ Carmen performances at the Opéra Liège 2017/18. Opéra Royal de Wallonie, archived from the original on February 13, 2018 ; accessed on February 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ orf.at: Symphony Orchestra invite you to an open-air concert ( Memento from May 31, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). Article of May 31, 2019.
  11. ^ Standing ovations for Netrebko and Eyvazov in Grafenegg. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten . August 31, 2020, accessed August 31, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Concert events in Lower Austria. August 25, 2020, accessed August 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Scappucci, Speranza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome