Lorenzo Passerini
Conductor
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Lorenzo Passerini is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut conducting a new production of Giordano’s Fedora, for this revival of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Born in Italy in 1991, he studied the trombone at the Conservatoire in Como and conducting with Ennio Nicotra. His conducting career started in 2011 with the Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi, which he founded and is still artistic director of today. Concert work has included appearances with the Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi and the Parma und Genua opera orchestras. He took up the post of artistic director of the Teatro Sociale Sondrio’s concert season in 2017. Recent successes have included Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Aida, La Bohème and Gounod’s Faust in Sydney, La Cenerentola at the Teatro de Las Palmas,Tosca at the Teatro Regio in Turin, La sonnambula at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, La Bohème at theThéâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, La rondine at the National Theater in Zagreb and Carmina Burana at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. He recently conducted opera galas with Pretty Yende (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris), Nadine Sierra (Konzerthaus Dortmund, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Turku Festival in Finland) and Luca Pisaroni (Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro) and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Aalto Theater in Essen. Plans this season include his debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, conducting Norma, and Carmen at the Semperoper in Dresden.