Paolo Olmi Conductor

Music Director of Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique and Opera National de Lorraine Nancy

Paolo Olmi studied conducting under Massimo Pradella and Franco Ferrara in Rome. Since his operatic debut in 1986 at the Teatro Comunale Bologna, his career has flourished with engagements at the world’s major concert halls and opera houses including Teatro dell’Opera Roma, La Scala Milan, La Fenice Venice, Santa Cecilia Rome, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chicago Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Semperoper Dresden, as well as Teatro Colon Buenos Aires and New National Theatre Tokyo.

In 1998 Olmi led the inaugural concert of the new Shanghai Theatre and returned to China in recent years with concerts in Beijing and Shanghai where he began a series of master classes with the recently founded China Youth Orchestra. A few years ago he brought the first staged opera to India conducting La Traviata with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Since 2001, Olmi has presented annual master classes at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Paolo Olmi made numerous live recordings of opera and concerts on CD and DVD including a highly acclaimed production of the Marriage of Figaro at the Lyon Opéra as well as the EMI CD/DVD recording of a gala concert with Angela Gheorghiu in Amsterdam in honour of the Queen of the Netherlands on the 25 years anniversary of reign.

Operatic and symphonic highlights have included concert performances of Verdi’s Vespri Siciliani, Jerusalem, Falstaff and Adriana Lecouvreurwith the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, La Boheme and Barber of Seville at the Nancy Opera, as well as performances of Rossini's Stabat Mater with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in London and Rome.

Recent/future engagements include opera performances of Andrea Chenier, Macbeth, La Cenerentola and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Nancy Opera, concert performances of Guillaume Tell with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Holland at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Don Carlos at the Canadian Opera Company and Aida at the Savonlinna Festival. In the forthcoming seasons Olmi will return to the Canadian Opera Company to conduct a production of Otello and he will also lead performances of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore at the New National Theatre Tokyo.

In 2006 Paolo Olmi took up the position of Music Director of Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique and the Opéra National de Lorraine Nancy.

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