Alberto Veronesi

Alberto Veronesi was born in Milan in 1965. Studied at Milan’s Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi and Naples’ Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella, under Eli Perrotta (piano), Renato Dionisi and Adriano Guarnieri (composition) and Gabriele Bellini (conducting).

In 1992 he founded the Guido Cantelli Orchestra in Milan. Under his direction the ensemble performed at the Salzburg Easter Festival (at the invitation of Claudio Abbado), the Teatro alla Scala, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

He was Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (2008–2013), conducting productions of Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci and numerous symphonic programmes. Veronesi served as Music Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (2001–2011), where he conducted the complete symphonies of Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler and Shostakovich, alongside 20^th-century Italian repertoire and contemporary works. He also led the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari (2010–2013) and the Opera Orchestra of New York (2010–2016) and acted as Artistic and Music Advisor to the Director of the Tianjin Grand Theatre in China (2012–2014). In 2013 Veronesi appeared as a guest conductor with the Shanghai Opera.

From 1998 to 2023 he directed the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.

Veronesi’s international guest engagements include Il trovatore at the Wiener Staatsoper; Fedora at La Monnaie, Brussels; L’amico Fritz and Tosca at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Nabucco, Tosca, Il trovatore, Otello and Turandot at the Bucharest National Opera; Madama Butterfly and Turandot at the Latvian National Opera, Riga; Don Carlo and L’elisir d’amore at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre; Carmen at the Seoul Arts Center; Aida and La traviata at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre; Aida at the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre; and many other productions worldwide.

He made his Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2010, conducting a gala concert of Maria Guleghina.

Veronesi has recorded seven albums for Deutsche Grammophon, collaborating with such artists as Plácido Domingo, Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu.

In 2003 Italia’s National Association of Music Critics awarded him the Franco Abbiati Prize for his production of La bohème.
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