Giacomo Sagripanti (Conductor)
After successfully completing his studies in piano and composition,
he was selected and admitted to “Scuola dell’Opera Italiana”
of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, a specialized opera center where
he could study professional opera conducting and lyric vocality.
He participated in several master classes, studying under the
following and receiving unanimous appreciation of his talent: Bruno
Bartoletti, Donato Renzetti, Gianandrea Noseda, Renato Palumbo, Riccardo Frizza,
Nicola Luisotti, Piero Bellugi, Colin Metters, Jorma Panula, Vladimir Ponkin,
Dejan Pavlov, Tamas Pаl and Eythan Pessen.
Despite his youth,
he has already developed a wide range of symphonic activity,
conducting numerous orchestras, both in Italy and abroad. These include
Fondazione del Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Fondazione Teatro Comunale
di Bologna, Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Fondazione
Toscanini di Parma, Fondazione del Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli,
Philharmonische Orchester der Hansestadt Lьbeck, RTV Symphony Orchestra
Ljubljana, Filarmonica Marchigiana, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Orchestra
Rossini di Pesaro, Orchestra Sinfonica Pescarese, Orchestra Sinfonica del
Teatro F. Cilea di Reggio Calabria, Orchestra 1813, Moscow Symphony
Orchestra, the RNCM Northern College of Manchester Orchestra, Orchestra
Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and Filarmonica del Teatro La Fenice
di Venezia. In January 2013 he made his American debut conducting
La Cenerentola with Seattle Opera Orchestra.
He conducted
Stabat Mater by G. B. Pergolesi during the Pergolesi’s
celebrations of Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, and Gianni di Parigi
by G. Donizetti at the XXXVI Festival della Valle d’Itria
di Martina Franca, with unanimous acclaim both from critics and audiences.
In September 2010 he appeared at Festival Pergolesi
in Jesi, where he conducted the first Italian performance
of Pergolesi’s Servante Maitresse, directed by J. Deschamps,
receiving excellent reviews from national critics.
His Cenerentola
by G. Rossini in Circuito Lirico Lombardo and at Fondazione
Toscanini of Piacenza impressed many and elicited unanimous praise from the
most important national magazines (“L’Opera” and “Classic Voice”).
In June 2011 he conducted La Traviata in Cagliari
and Madama Butterfly at Carlo Felice in Genoa. In April
2011 he received outstanding reviews from the public and critics for his
performance of Mozart’s Requiemwith Orchestra del Teatro Filarmonico
di Verona. He also made his official debut in Germany conducting
Boito’s Mefistofele in Lьbeck, with enthusiastic reviews by two
of the most important German magazines, Die Welt and Orpheus. In the
same Theater he conducted Carmen and Hansel und Gretel.
His
performance at the opening of Festival Valle d’Itria in 2011 was
widely acclaimed and his Rossini’sAureliano in Palmira (with Franco Fagioli
in the role of Arsaces) drew unanimous applause from the major Italian
critics as did the Gianni di Parigi he conducted at Wexford
Festival (October 2011).
Most recently, he conducted Cenerentola
in Paris (Palais Garnier), and in Seattle Opera House (making his USA
debut), Elisir d’amore in Verona, Madama Butterfly in Venezia
La Fenice, La Traviata in Limoges and in Reims; a cycle
of symphonic concerts in Tel Aviv, at Teatro Filarmonico
in Verona and with Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI; Zaira (by Bellini)
in Martina Franca, La Forza del Destino in Essen, I Puritani
in Jesi, Cenerentola at Dresden Semperoper, La Bohиme
in Bolzano.
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