Pier Giorgio Morandi
Pier Giorgio Morandi is a conductor of great international experience who specialised in Italian opera and is a regular guest of most prominent Italian theatres and European and world Opera houses such as Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Opera di Roma, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Opera in Sevilla, Bilbao, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Wiener Staatsoper, Festival di Macerata, Arena di Verona, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Royal Albert Hall in London, Seoul Art Center, Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Royal Opera House in Stockholm where he has been the guest Chief of Music for eight years. He is highly respected for his interpretations of the symphonic repertoire and has conducted premieres of operas Macbeth, Don Carlo, Aida and Lucia di Lammermoor in La Scala, Rigoletto in Opéra Bastille and the MET, operas Tosca, La Bohème, Carmen and Lucia di Lammermoor in Hamburg, The Barber of Seville at the Bolshoi and Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and Rigoletto, La Bohème, Don Carlo and La Fanciulla del West in the Frankfurt Opera. He made numerous records for Naxos, Decca and Sony Classic for which he made two CDs with tenor Vittorio Grigolo and a CD with tenor Jonas Kaufmann. Recently he also worked at the Opera in Budapest, Teatro Regio in Torin, in Frankfurt, at the MET, Sydney Opera, Tokyo Spring Festival and at the Wiener Staatsoper. Currently he is the honorary chief-conductor of the Opera of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb where he prepared Nabucco and is to conduct Madama Butterfly, Tosca and Verdi's Requiem.