Giuseppe Mentuccia
conductor
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The Italian conductor Giuseppe Mentuccia, appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time leading this revival of our wonderful Carmen, has worked with leading houses and orchestras around the world including the Met in New York, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Earlier on in his career he assisted conductors including James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann and Myung-Whun Chung and was assistant to Daniel Barenboim from 2018 until he stopped being General Music Director of the Staatsoper in Berlin in January 2023, enjoying great success when he stepped in for him to conduct Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte in 2021/22. He returns this season for Puccini's La Bohème, Madama Butterfly and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. At Barenboim's invitation Giuseppe Mentuccia has been Conductor and manager of the Barenboim-Said Akademie Orchestra since 2020 and a member of the Boulez Ensemble. He is also artistic director of the children's opera orchestra, a joint project between twelve regions in the federal state of Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He pursued his fascination with the relationship between philosophy and music in a dissertation about the Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache: Phänomenologie und die musikalische Vision von Sergiu Celibidache. Giuseppe Mentuccia graduated from the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and gained his masters and doctorate at the Juilliard School.