![]() ![]() “I’m convinced,” baritone Michael Volle said, “that he will be a big number the next years and decades in our business.Looks surreal? Commission chief chats with a Russian media at yesterday's opening of Milan's La Scala season 2022-2023 with a gala performance of the Russian opera "Boris Godunov" /uOpbwVxMeQ Up ahead is “Aida” and Verdi’s “Don Carlo” at the Munich Opera Festival in July, and Rustioni conducts a new Mariusz Treliński staging of Strauss’ “Die Frau ohne Schatten” at the start of next season in Lyon. They live in the Bloomsbury section of London but he spends four months annually in Lyon. “I told the gondolier to stop singing,” Rustioni said. He proposed on a gondola at Venice’s Bridge of Sighs in September 2014 and they were married the following year. So we played the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Brahms Violin Concerto. So she asked me to accompany her to a couple of auditions to play as a soloist with the orchestra. “I was renowned in the conservatory for being a very good sight reader at the piano. ‘’She was the best violin student at the conservatory in Milano,” he said. ![]() “It’s very rare to have a conductor in opera who really can get inside the text so vividly.”īoyish looking and with an ever-present smile, Rustioni conducts at times with violinist Francesca Dego as soloist - his wife. “What a dynamic and big personality he has,” soprano Ailyn Pérez said. Rustioni was engaged by the Met for Bizet’s “Carmen” next season with British director Carrie Cracknell, the second time in three years he was picked for a high-profile New Year’s Eve production premiere. I love all that he brings to the Met, and hope that he will make regular appearances with our company.” “He exhibits uncompromising commitment, discipline and musical integrity - all polished with a wonderful sense of humor and a joy of music-making that is sincere and contagious. “Daniele is a very rare find in the opera world,” Met concertmaster Benjamin Bowman said. Rustioni made his Met debut in a 2017 revival of Verdi’s “Aida” and is leading his fourth production there. “That sounded a bit arrogant, but that’s the reality because since I was 25 I conducted like six, seven every season.” “I don’t think there exists another conductor on the planet Earth that at 39 has almost 70 operas in his repertoire,” he said. His Vienna State Opera debut is scheduled for 2025-26 in a French work new to the house and he plans to shift to 70% symphonic work in coming years. “My dream would be to have a big house and be music director,” Rustioni said. Rustioni made his opera debut at Turin’s Teatro Regio in Puccini’s “La Boheme” in 2007 at the behest of Gianandrea Noseda and became an assistant to Antonio Pappano at London’s Royal Opera.Ĭonducting debuts followed at London’s Royal Opera in 2011, La Scala in 2012, Munich in 2014 and Berlins’ Staatsoper and the Paris Opera the following year. He studied conducting at the Milan Conservatory, Sienna’s Accademia Musicale Chigiana and London’s Royal Academy of Music. So when I was 11, I enrolled at the conservatory and was really doing all this stuff. ![]() “You have to study 10 years of piano, 10 years of composition, 10 years of conducting, 10 years of wind instrumentation, choral conducting, blah, blah. “It can be the easiest job in the world but also the hardest,” Rustioni remembered Muti explaining the podium work. After appearing in Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” Prokofiev’s “Ivan the Terrible,” Orff’s “Carmina Burana” and Puccini’s “La Boheme,” Rustioni got the solo role of Third Boy in Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)” late in a 2005 run led by Muti. Rustioni’s mother was a chorus singer and encouraged him to join the children’s choir at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala during the tenure of Muti, music director from 1986-2005. They don’t know anything about the vocal technique, about composition, and just they move the arms.” “He’s a very good conductor and a serious musician - I underline the word serious because I see that today many conductors don’t concentrate, especially in operas, and they are not prepared. “Rustioni belongs to the old style of conductors that take music and operas very, very seriously,” the 81-year-old Muti said from his home in Ravenna, Italy. He serves as principal guest conductor of Munich’s Bavarian State Opera and will be on the podium for the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Verdi’s “Falstaff” starting Sunday. With his 40th birthday approaching on April 18, Rustioni is music director of the Lyon Opera in France and the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland. He said: `You should be a conductor because you are very extroverted.‘” “I was very - how can say? - loud as a kid. “I want to be him,” Rustioni recalled thinking. NEW YORK (AP) - Daniele Rustioni was a 10-year-old in the La Scala children’s chorus when he saw Riccardo Muti for the first time. ![]()
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