Maurizio Benini, Conductor
 THIS SEASON L’Elisir d’Amore and La Cenerentola at the Met, La Sonnambula in Cagliari, Aida in Palermo, and L’Elisir d’Amore at the Glyndebourne Festival. PREVIOUS MET APPEARANCES Norma, L’Elisir d’Amore (debut, 1998), Rigoletto, La Traviata,Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Pasquale, Luisa Miller, and Faust. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS He made his conducting debut at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino, and his debut at La Scala in 1992 with La Donna del Lago, (where he has since led Don Carlo, Pagliacci, Don Pasquale, Rigoletto, and La Sonnambula). He has also conducted La Scala di Seta, L’Occasione fa il Ladro, and Le Siège de Corinthe at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival; Zelmira at the Edinburgh Festival; Attila, Luisa Miller, Faust and La Traviata at Covent Garden; and Don Carlo in Barcelona. He was Principal Conductor of the Filarmonici of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna from 1984 to 1991 and Principal Conductor of the Wexford Festival from 1995 to 1997. |
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