Alberto Malazzi | Women's choir of Teatro Comunale

With its long-standing tradition, the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna has been led by Musical Directors like Sergiu Celibidache, ZoltánPeskó, Vladimir Delman, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Michele Mariotti. Some of the conductors who have worked with the ensemble include Gary Bertini, Myung-Whun Chung, James Conlon, Pinchas Steinberg, Valery Gergiev, Eliau Inbal, Vladimir Jurowskij, Daniel Oren, Peter Maag, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovič, Esa Pekka Salonen, Georg Solti, Christian Thielemann, Charles Dutoit, Georges Prêtre. The Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale is often invited abroad (The Netherlands, Romania, Spain, France, and Switzerland) and has played inmany prestigious festivals (Amsterdam 1987, Parma 1990, Wiesbaden 1994, Santander 2004 and2008, Aix en Provence 2005, Savonlinna 2006, Macao 2013, Muscat 2015, Guanajuato in Mexico2017, Paris2018). A special connection with Japan has brought to several tours, including thetourin June 2019 in Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama, Fukuoka, withperformances ofRigolettodirected by Alessio Pizzech, and of Il Barbiere di Sivigliadirected by Federico Grazzini. Its numerous recordings include La Favoriteconducted byRichard Bonynge;Oberto Conte di San Bonifacioconduted by Zoltán Peskó,Il Barbiere di Sivigliaconducted by GiuseppePatané,La Fille du Régimentconducted by BrunoCampanella,Le Maschereand La Bohèmeconducted by GianluigiGelmetti,La Scala di Setaconducted by GabrieleFerro,Macbeth, Manon Lescaut, Rigoletto, La Cenerentola, Messa Solenne,and the video production of Vespri siciliani and Giovanna d’Arcoand Wertherconducted by Riccardo Chailly, Armide conducted by Daniele Gatti, Simon Boccanegraconducted by Michele Mariotti.The Orchestra, conducted by Michele Mariotti, has recorded a CD under the label Decca with sacred arias sung by Juan Diego Flórez, and an album under Sony with Romantic arias sung by Nino Machaidze. Under Deutsche Grammophonthe Orchestrarecorded Le Comte OrywithFlórez, andLa Nuit de Mai–a selection or arias and songs by Leoncavallo –with Placido Domingo. Under the label PENTATONE it recently released a CD containingovertures by Rossini,to celebrate 150 years since the death of the composer. In March 2013 the artistic ensembles of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, led by Michele Mariotti, openedthe IV International Festival Mstislav Rostropovichin Moscow, where they performed Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. In October 2015, again with Michele Mariotti on the podium, they opened the Lingotto Music Festival at the Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, where they performed Stabat Materby Rossini, and hisOverture and Ballet Musicfrom GuillaumeTell. After working with the Rossini Opera Festival for nearly thirty years (from 1988 to 2016), the year 2017 brought new collaborations between the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Verdi Festival in Parma, where the Orchestra performed, among other productions, the Stiffeliodirected by Graham Vick. Staged at the Teatro Farnese, the show was highly appreciated by audience and critics alike and was granted the Special Prize at the 37thedition of the “Franco Abbiati”Critics award. The Orchestra’s engagements with the Verdi Festival for the Fall of 2019 include Luisa Millerat the Chiesa di San Francesco del Prato in Parma, and Aidaat the Teatro Verdi in Busseto. The Teatro Comunale’s 2018 production of La Bohèmestaged by Graham Vick received the Abbiati Award as best show.