Lorenzo Passerini

Conductor

Lorenzo Passerini
© Elena Cherkashyna

Lorenzo Passerini is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, conducting this new production of Giordano’s Fedora. 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 has been artistic director of the Teatro Sociale Sondrio’s concert season since 2017. Recent successes have included Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Aida and Gounod’s Faust in Sydney, La Cenerentola at the Teatro de Las Palmas and Tosca at the Teatro Regio in Turin. This season he has conducted La sonnambula at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, La Bohème at the Sydney Opera House and Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, La rondine at the National Theater in Zagreb and Carmina Burana at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. He also 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). Future plans include his debut at the Aalto-Theater in Essen with Il barbiere di Siviglia and a return to Sydney for Aida.