Conductor
Marco Guidarini studied conducting with Mario Gusulla and Franco
Ferrara and became assistant to John-Elliot Gardiner at the Opéra
de Lyon making his operatic debut there conducting Falstaff. Since
then he has conducted at many opera houses including New York
(Metropolitan), Los Angeles, Bologna, Naples, Barcelona, Berlin
(Deutsche Oper), Munich, Leipzig, Stockholm, Copenhagen and
Oslo.
Between 2001 and 2009 he was Music Director of the Orchestre
Philharmonique and Opéra de Nice. Productions there have inclu-
ded operas by Mozart, Verdi and Puccini together with Wozzeck,
Salome and Pelleas et Melisande. He led the Orchestre Philharmo-
nique de Nice on a tour of Japan, their first outside France and
founded a contemporary music ensemble "Apostrophe" from with-
in the orchestra.
His recordings have included Puccini's Le villi (Grand Prix du
Disque), Simon Boccanegra scenes from Paer's Sofonisba, Ido-
meneo, Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac, Verdi's Macbeth and Le
Trouvère, Mascagni's Roma and works by Charpentier, Field,
Lalo, Massenet Poulenc and Saint-Saens.
Representation: Germany