![]() “What a dynamic and big personality he has,” soprano Ailyn Pérez said. Rustioni was engaged by the Met for Bizet’s “Carmen” next season with British director Carrie Cracknell, the second time in three years he was picked for a high-profile New Year’s Eve production premiere. I love all that he brings to the Met, and hope that he will make regular appearances with our company.” “He exhibits uncompromising commitment, discipline and musical integrity - all polished with a wonderful sense of humor and a joy of music-making that is sincere and contagious. “Daniele is a very rare find in the opera world,” Met concertmaster Benjamin Bowman said. Rustioni made his Met debut in a 2017 revival of Verdi’s “Aida” and is leading his fourth production there. “That sounded a bit arrogant, but that’s the reality because since I was 25 I conducted like six, seven every season.” “I don’t think there exists another conductor on the planet Earth that at 39 has almost 70 operas in his repertoire,” he said. His Vienna State Opera debut is scheduled for 2025-26 in a French work new to the house and he plans to shift to 70% symphonic work in coming years. “My dream would be to have a big house and be music director,” Rustioni said. Rustioni made his opera debut at Turin’s Teatro Regio in Puccini’s “La Boheme” in 2007 at the behest of Gianandrea Noseda and became an assistant to Antonio Pappano at London’s Royal Opera.Ĭonducting debuts followed at London’s Royal Opera in 2011, La Scala in 2012, Munich in 2014 and Berlins’ Staatsoper and the Paris Opera the following year. He studied conducting at the Milan Conservatory, Sienna’s Accademia Musicale Chigiana and London’s Royal Academy of Music. So when I was 11, I enrolled at the conservatory and was really doing all this stuff. “You have to study 10 years of piano, 10 years of composition, 10 years of conducting, 10 years of wind instrumentation, choral conducting, blah, blah. “It can be the easiest job in the world but also the hardest,” Rustioni remembered Muti explaining the podium work. After appearing in Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” Prokofiev’s “Ivan the Terrible,” Orff’s “Carmina Burana” and Puccini’s “La Boheme,” Rustioni got the solo role of Third Boy in Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)” late in a 2005 run led by Muti. Rustioni’s mother was a chorus singer and encouraged him to join the children’s choir at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala during the tenure of Muti, music director from 1986-2005. They don’t know anything about the vocal technique, about composition, and just they move the arms.” “He’s a very good conductor and a serious musician - I underline the word serious because I see that today many conductors don’t concentrate, especially in operas, and they are not prepared. “Rustioni belongs to the old style of conductors that take music and operas very, very seriously,” the 81-year-old Muti said from his home in Ravenna, Italy. He serves as principal guest conductor of Munich’s Bavarian State Opera and will be on the podium for the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Verdi’s “Falstaff” starting Sunday. ![]() With his 40th birthday approaching on April 18, Rustioni is music director of the Lyon Opera in France and the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland. He said: `You should be a conductor because you are very extroverted.‘” “I was very - how can say? - loud as a kid. “I want to be him,” Rustioni recalled thinking. ![]() Tickets for all three performances are sold out.NEW YORK (AP) - Daniele Rustioni was a 10-year-old in the La Scala children’s chorus when he saw Riccardo Muti for the first time. On Tuesday, director Riccardo Muti will conduct a concert with the Wiener Philharmoniker orchestra, while British conductor Daniel Harding is scheduled to take the stage on May 17. With the situation gradually improving in the northern Lombardy region around Milan, one of Italy's areas hardest hit by the pandemic, La Scala is expected to unveil its new season this month. Being here tonight gives me goose bumps," said 47-year-old jeweller Andrea Sangalli. "It was a sort of regaining of what we had before the pandemic. The concert also marked the 75th anniversary of the reopening of the Milan opera house after World War Two bombings. Coffee bars, restaurants, cinemas and theatres partially reopened in most regions on April 26. ![]() Italy shut its theatres and concert halls last October to contain a resurgence of the pandemic after the summer. With COVID-19 cases and deaths decreasing, Italy is assessing loosening lockdown measures and plans to lift quarantine restrictions for travellers arriving from European countries, Britain and Israel as early as mid-May. ![]() "It is a symbol of restart not only for La Scala, but for Italy as a whole," said Artistic Director Dominique Meyer. ![]()
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