Nicola Luisotti Conductor

Hailed as San Francisco Opera’s “ideal new maestro” by the New York Times, Italian conductor NICOLA LUISOTTI completes his highly acclaimed inaugural season as the company’s music director this June with performances of La fanciulla del West, having already led productions of Il trovatore, Salome, and Otello this past fall. He has garnered enthusiastic praise from both audiences and critics for his work at Royal Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice, Venice’s Teatro La Fenice, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, Madrid’s Teatro Real, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Seattle Opera, Bologna’s Teatro Comunale, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. Opera engagements for the 2010–11 season include La fanciulla del West at the Met, Tosca and Die Zauberflöte in Dresden, Attila at Milan’s La Scala, as well as Aida, Le nozze di Figaro, and Madama Butterfly with San Francisco Opera.

Equally at home on the concert stage, Luisotti serves as principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Symphony and has led many of the world’s most acclaimed orchestral ensembles, including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, NHK Symphony, Dresden’s Staatskapelle, Munich’s Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Torino’s Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, and the orchestras of Hamburg, Budapest, and Zagreb. His 2010–11 orchestral engagements include concerts with the Atlanta Symphony, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper and Hessischer Rundfunk, and Milan’s Filarmonica della Scala. The conductor’s discography includes a complete recording of Stiffelio (Dynamic) with the orchestra of Trieste’s Teatro Verdi and the critically acclaimed Duets (Deutsche Grammophon), featuring Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón. He is also on the podium of a DVD recording of the Met’s La Bohème, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas (EMI). Born in the Tuscan city of Viareggio, Nicola Luisotti trained as a pianist, with secondary studies in composition, trumpet, and voice. Early in his career, he held various musical positions at La Scala, La Fenice, and the Maggio Musicale Festival of Florence.

Updated: May 2010

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