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with Alessandro Bonato
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with Alessandro Bonato
Conductor
Orchestra
Alessandro Bonato is one of Italy’s most promising young conductors. He came to international attention in 2018, at just 23 years old, by winning third prize at the Malko International Competition in Copenhagen. He was the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana for the two-year period 2021-2022.
In Italy he has conducted the Orchestra della Toscana, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Filarmonica del Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo, and is a regular guest of I Pomeriggi Musicali, the Orchestra Toscanini, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana. He made his debut at the Musikverein in Vienna with the Wiener Concert-Verein. In summer 2022 he made his debut at the Macerata Opera Festival while in fall 2022 at the Circuito Lirico Lombardo with a successful production of Norma.
In summer 2023 he made his debut at the Arena di Verona with Il barbiere di Siviglia and in the summer season of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Verdi’s Messa di Requiem, as well as with the South Denmark Philharmonic. During the 2023/24 season, Alessandro Bonato will take the Orchestra dell’Accademia della Scala on tour to France, return to the Orchestra Toscanini for the Respighi Festival in Bologna, to the Pomeriggi Musicali, where he is now a permanent presence, and to the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana; he will also make his debut with the orchestra of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan, in Athens with a program dedicated to Italian belcanto, as well as with the Istambul State Orchestra. Alessandro Bonato is engaged in music dissemination on social media, a practice he developed during the lockdown and which has been highly appreciated for its originality and expertise.
L’Orchestra Haydn si è costituita nel 1960 per iniziativa dei Comuni e delle Province di Bolzano e di Trento. Il suo repertorio spazia dal barocco ai contemporanei. L’Orchestra Haydn ha preso parte a diversi festival internazionali, apparendo in Austria (a Bregenz, a Erl, al Mozarteum di Salisburgo e al Musikverein di Vienna), Germania, Giappone, Italia (al Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, alla Sagra Musicale Umbra di Perugia, al Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro, ad Anima Mundi di Pisa, a MiTo SettembreMusica di Torino e alla Biennale Musica di Venezia), negli Stati Uniti d’America, in Svizzera e in Ungheria.
Sul suo podio sono saliti, fra gli altri, direttori quali Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Jesús López-Cobos, Sir Neville Marriner, Riccardo Muti, Sir Jeffrey Tate. Dopo la quasi trentennale guida di Andrea Mascagni, alla direzione artistica si sono avvicendati Hubert Stuppner, Gustav Kuhn, Daniele Spini e Giorgio Battistelli (dal 2021).
