FABRIZIO VENTURA

Italian conductor, for ten years (2007-2017) he was General Music Director of the Münster Theatre and the Münster Symphony Orchestra. In 1989 he received an engagement as Music Director at the Theater Biel (Switzerland) and was subsequently engaged as first Kapellmeister at the Braunschweig State Theatre (1994-1998). This was followed by an engagement as first Kapellmeister at the Nuremberg Opera House, and in 2002 he was appointed General Music Director at the Meiningen State Theatre. In 2005 he was appointed General Music Director of the Istanbul State Opera. As a guest conductor, he has led the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra (Munich), Munich Radio Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra (Leipzig), Stuttgart State Orchestra, European Community Youth Orchestra. Moreover, he has conducted opera productions at the Royal Opera Houses of Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Royal Opera House (Covent Garden, London), Oper Leipzig, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Fondazione Arena di Verona, Opéra de Nice, Australian Opera (Sydney) and Opéra de Montréal. In 2023 he conducted Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Greek National Opera.