Michele Mariotti has been named the new Principal Conductor of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai). His appointment marks a historic first: he is the first Italian conductor to hold the top position with the ensemble since its founding in 1994, following Eliahu Inbal, Rafael…

Verdi’s Luisa Miller returns to the Wiener Staatsoper after a 35-year absence, with Michele Mariotti on the podium. This marks Mariotti’s third time conducting the work, having previously led it at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, where he serves as Music Director. Performances are scheduled for 7, 16, 20,…

Wagner arrives at the Teatro Costanzi for the first time in fifty years and with it, a landmark debut for Michele Mariotti. The new season of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma opens with Lohengrin, marking the first encounter with Wagner’s music for both Mariotti, the theatre’s Music Director and…

Following its celebrated premiere at the Salzburg Festival in 2017 and a first revision in 2022, Michele Mariotti conducts a newly reimagined production of Verdi’s Aida, staged by Shirin Neshat, at the Opéra National de Paris, running from 24 September to 4 November 2025. At the heart of Aida…

Awards Ceremony of the 44th “Franco Abbiati” Italian Music Critics Prize in Pesaro. At the Teatro Rossini on Sunday, August 10, the parchments of the Abbiati Prize were presented to the winners, together with the official motivations. The “Franco Abbiati” Italian Music Critics Prize is awarded by the National…

The most famous of American musicals. It is West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, conducted by Michele Mariotti and staged by Damiano Michieletto, who has curated the program of the Caracalla Festival 2025. The new production by the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma premieres on Saturday, July 5 at the…

Third and final stage of the “Recomposed Triptych”, a project created in collaboration with the Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago. From April 23 to May 2 at the Teatro Costanzi, Suor Angelica by Giacomo Puccini and Il Prigioniero by Luigi Dallapiccola will be performed under the baton of Michele…

After the success of Il barbiere di Siviglia, which marked his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2021, Michele Mariotti returns to Vienna to conduct Bellini’s Norma in a new production directed by French stage director Cyril Teste. The opera will begin itsrun on Saturday, February 22, 2025, with the premiere already sold out. Musical director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Mariotti will conduct the Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera in one of the absolute masterpieces of…

Exactly 125 years after its world premiere on January 14, 1900 at the Teatro Costanzi, the most Roman of Giacomo Puccini’s masterpieces returns to the very stage of its debut. Michele Mariotti takes the podium of the Rome Opera to conduct Tosca in the scenic version of the original…

From November 27 to December 5, Simon Boccanegra will be staged at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. Michele Mariotti conducts Verdi’s opera that opens the 2024-25 season of the Roman theater. An intertwining of love, power and reconciliation. A story of solitude, redemption and conflict, which intensely explores the…