Francesco Lanzillotta

Conductor

Francesco Lancillotta
© Manuela Giusto

Italian born Francesco Lanzillotta, one of the most interesting conductors of his generation, is back in Frankfurt, where he led a concert performance of La Traviata, for this new production of Dallapiccola’s Ulisse. This former Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma and Music Director of the Macerata Opera Festival is a regular guest at leading opera houses and festivals. This season he made his debut at the Bayerische Staatoper with La Bohème and conducted I Puritani at the Vienna State Opera, Rigoletto (Opèra de Lyon), Norma (Teatro Regio di Torino), L’elisir d’amore (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), a La voix humaine / The Telephone double-bill (Teatro Filarmonico di Verona), Il pirate (Teatro Massimo di Palermo) and L’amico Fritz at the Tirol Festival in  Erl, where he returns this winter for Don Pasquale and a New Year's concert. Other recent engagements have included Macbeth at Zurich Opera, Il viaggio a Reims and Rigoletto at the Semperoper in Dresden, Nabucco at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opéra de Toulon, Hamburg State Opera, La Fenice in Venice, the Aalto-Theater Essen, Opéra de Montpellier and the Bolschoi in Moscow. Francesco Lanzillotta works regularly with leading orchestras in Italy, including the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI di Torino and Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan. Contemporary music occupies a central position in his repertoire: these have included Il medico dei pazzi by Giorgio Battistelli at Opéra de Nancy and the Teatro La Fenice and works by Marcello Panni, Ennio Morricone, Ada Gentile. Carlo Galante and Michele Dall’Ongaro. Future plans include Andrea Chénier and Don Pasquale at the Vienna State Opera and Donizetti’s Bastarda at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.