After I puritani in 2013, La traviata in 2016 and Les Huguenots in 2018, Michele Mariotti returns for the fourth time to the Paris Opéra with Don Pasquale. From March 22 to April 16 he will be interpreting Gaetano Donizetti’s masterpiece at the Palais Garnier with the stage direction of Damiano Michieletto….

Michele Mariotti has been nominated as Best Conductor at the 2019 International Opera Awards. Winners will be announced at Sadler’s Wells in London on Monday 29th April. > www.operaawards.org

Before leaving the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, where he has been music director since 2007, Michele Mariotti leads the final opera season production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni staged by Jean-François Sivadier. Performances start Saturday, December 15th and run through Sunday, December 23th. > www.tcbo.it

From the moment they were performed, Gioachino Rossini’s overtures have enjoyed the status of colourful, elegant orchestral showpieces. With their sweet cantilene, their rich harmonies, their brilliant orchestration, and their powerful and exciting rhythmic drive, these overtures encapsulate all that was modern, exhilarating and electrifying in Rossini’s music, yet…

Michele Mariotti is returning to the Paris Opéra to conduct the first new production of the 2018-2019 season. From September 28 to October 20 he will be interpreting Giacomo Meyerbeer’s grand-opéra Les Huguenots at the Opéra Bastille, with the stage direction of Andreas Kriegenburg. Lead interpreters are Lisette Oropesa…

After its success in 2016 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, “La donna del lago” by Gioachino Rossini returns on stage at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, in the production with the conduction by Michele Mariotti and with the direction by Damiano Michieletto, from May 5 to 15….

On April 17th Michele Mariotti faces for the first time the score of Giuseppe Verdi I Lombardi alla prima crociata at the Teatro Regio of Turin. On stage Giuseppe Gipali as Arivinio, Alex Esposito as Pagano, Lavinia Bini as Viclinda and Francesco Meli as Oronte. The Teatro Regio new production…

Michele Mariotti will lead the Teatro Comunale of Bologna’s Orchestra and Choir on Stabat Mater by Antonín Dvořák in the Basilica of San Petronio, the main church of the city in Piazza Maggiore, on March 28th at 20.30. The concert features the voices of the soprano Charlotte-Anne Shipley, of mezzosoprano…

Next March the 25th Michele Mariotti returns in Berlin for a simphony concert on the Deutschen Oper Orchestra’s podium. The program features Glinka’s Ouverture from Ruslan and Lyudmila, soloist Martin Wagemann; Šostakovič’s Piano Concert No 1 op. 35, soloist Denis Kozhuking; Čajkovskij’s Symphony No 4 op. 36. > Deutsche Oper…

On February 24th Michele Mariotti will conduct the first performance at the Teatro alla Scala in the French version of Orphée et Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck. On stage Juan Diego Flórez as Orphée, Christiane Karg as Euridice, Fatma Said – coming from the Academy of Teatro alla Scala…