Simone Di Felice
Soloists' Coach / Kapellmeister
© Reinhard Simon
Italian born Simone Di Felice is a soloists' coach at Oper Frankfurt who was made a Kapellmeister in 2017/18. During the 2024/25 season he conducts performances of Rigoletto and the new production of Macbeth and this revival of Rodelinda. He conducted performances of last season's new production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto and, in recent seasons, our new Zauberflöte, a work he conducted at the Opéra National in Paris, a new production of Orlando, performances of Handel's Radamisto, a new Rossini's La gazzetta in the Bockenheimer Depot, Rinaldo, L'incoronazione di Poppea, Gluck's Ezio, Rigoletto, Maderna's Satyricon, a performance of Rossini's La gazza ladra and Rossini's Bianca e Falliero, which went to the 2022 Tirol Festival in Erl, where he enjoyed great success, for the company. He returned to Theater Basel, where he conducted La Cenerentola, for Il barbiere di Siviglia, appeared in concert with with the Tonkünstler Orchester and conducted a Harvest Festival concert at the Tirol Festival in Erl. Other orchestras with whom he has worked have included Württemberg's Heilbronn Chamber Orchestra and the Philharmonie in Baden-Baden. After studying the piano, Simone Di Felice worked as a soloists' coach at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence and then ran the coaching department at the Teatro Marrucino in Chieti from 2005-2008. Simone Di Felice received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Verband while studying conducting in Karlsruhe. He has been teaching at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Stuttgart since 2010.