Michele Mariotti

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Michele Mariotti, born in 1979 in

Early work

Between 2006 and 2008, following the Rossini opera in Salerno, Mariotti conducted opera in

The success of a November 2007 filmed run of Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, opening the season there, led to Mariotti's appointment as the theater's direttore principale, to start the next year, a title he would hold until his promotion in 2014. He replaced Daniele Gatti and effectively embarked upon a major career.

Productions in Bologna conducted by Mariotti in his capacities as direttore principale and then direttore musicale have been: I puritani

Mariotti's duties in Bologna include regular subscription concerts with the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, in its home theater and at the Teatro Auditorium Manzoni, the base of Orchestra Mozart. Beethoven's symphonies have featured prominently in these concerts.

In Pesaro

For thirty years, until early 2017, the opera company in Bologna anchored the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Accordingly, Mariotti participated in his home town's most visible summer event. Among his projects for the ROF with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna were three filmed operas: a 2010 Sigismondo,^[4] a 2012 Matilde di Shabran^[5] and a 2013 Guillaume Tell,^[6] the first two featuring his future wife, Olga Peretyatko, the latter two starring Flórez. He also conducted the Bologna forces in the Adriatic resort in Rossini's Stabat mater.

In Munich

The conductor has developed a bond with the Münchner Symphoniker, guest-conducting the German ensemble in 2013, 2015^[7] and 2017^[8] in works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Bruckner, among others. In the same city, in 2017, he debuted at Bavarian State Opera with Semiramide^[9][10][11] starring Joyce DiDonato.

In the United States

Mariotti made his U.S. debut on September 12, 2009, conducting Il barbiere di Siviglia at Washington National Opera.^[12] Two months later he performed the same opera in a different production and with a different cast (including Flórez and DiDonato) at Los Angeles Opera.^[13] In 2012 he led Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera and he has since returned to conduct four other productions with that company,^[14] making DVDs of Rigoletto for Deutsche Grammophon^[15] and La donna del lago for Erato.^[16] He debuted with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra in Portland^[17][18] the same year (2012) and performed Rossini at Lyric Opera of Chicago two years later.^[19][20]

In Japan

During the Bologna company's September 2011 tour to Japan, Mariotti led performances of Carmen, starring Nino Surguladze, and I puritani, with Desirée Rancatore, Celso Albelo, Luca Salsi and Nicola Ulivieri, at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, as well as events outside the capital.

Elsewhere

Mariotti conducted