Conductor
Orchestra
Leading instruments
with Alessandro Bonato
- Music by
- Giuseppe Verdi
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.
The Haydn Orchestra was founded in 1960 at the initiative of the municipalities and provinces of Bolzano and Trento. Its repertoire ranges from the Baroque to contemporary music. The orchestra has taken part in numerous international festivals, appearing in Austria (in Bregenz, Erl, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Musikverein in Vienna), Germany, Japan, Italy (at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Sagra Musicale Umbra in Perugia, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Anima Mundi in Pisa, MiTo SettembreMusica in Turin, and the Biennale Musica in Venice), the United States of America, Switzerland, and Hungary.
Among the conductors who have appeared on its podium are, among others, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Jesús López-Cobos, Neville Marriner, Riccardo Muti, and Jeffrey Tate. After the nearly thirty-year tenure of Andrea Mascagni, the role of Artistic Director has been held by Hubert Stuppner, Gustav Kuhn, Daniele Spini, Giorgio Battistelli, and André Comploi (from 2025).
