Name: Alessandro Bonato
Start: 2027-06-10
Location: Piazza del Duomo, Bressanone

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.

During the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons, Mateusz Ługowski was a member of the International Opera Studio at Staatsoper Hamburg, where he performed a wide range of roles, including Wagner (Faust), Policeman (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Messer Amantio di Nicolao (Gianni Schicchi) Leibbojar (Boris Godunov), Il Marchese d’Obigny and Il Barone Douphol (La traviata), Marullo (Rigoletto), Benoît (La bohème), Il Principe Yamadori (Madama Butterfly), Captain (Eugene Onegin), and Billy Jackrabbit (La fanciulla del West). Mateusz Ługowski’s 2024/2025 season included several debuts on major Polish opera stages; at the Grand Theatre in Poznań as Escamillo (Carmen) and Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), at the Baltic Opera in the role of Marcello (La bohème), at the Wrocław Opera again as Escamillo, and at the Polish National Opera (TWON) in Warsaw as Monterone, as well as at the Baltic opera Festival as First Nazarene (Salome). In the 2025/2026 season, he will make his debut at the Wrocław Opera as Miecznik (The Haunted Manor/Straszny Dwór – S. Moniuszko), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola, and Jochanaan (Salome), at the National Opera in Warsaw as Il Commissario Imperiale (Madama Butterfly), and he returns to the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk as Marcello (La bohème). He has collaborated with esteemed conductors such as Stefano Ranzani, Paolo Carignani, Kent Nagano, Giampaolo Bisanti, Alexander Joel, Yaroslav Shemet, Aleksander Gref, Matteo Beltrami, Finnegan Downie Dear, Marco Guidarini, Nicolas André, Vladimir Kiradjiev, Grzegorz Wierus, and Andriy Yurkevych and directors, including Krzysztof Cicheński, Romuald Wicza-Pokojski, Axel Ranish, Angelina Nikonova, Frank Castorf, Rares Zaharia, and Gerard Jones. Mateusz Ługowski graduated with distinction in vocal performance from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in 2024. He is a laureate of several international vocal competitions, including second prize and the ZASP award at the Viva Calisia Competition in Kalisz (2022), and the Special Career Development Support award from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden at the Belvedere Singing Competition (2022). He has received numerous accolades for his artistic achievements, including the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Award (2022/2023), the title of Student of the Year (2023/2024), and multiple scholarships from the Rector of the Academy of Music in Poznań. Mateusz Ługowski previously earned his degree in choral conducting from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in 2022. His conducting debut took place at the Polish Dance Theatre in Poznań and the Kaunas Philharmonic, where he conducted Widma by Stanisław Moniuszko.

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