Andrea Sanguineti

Biography

Andrea Sanguineti will make his debut at the National Theatre in October 2024 as conductor of Puccini's Turandot.

 He studied piano and composition at the conservatory in his native Genoa and conducting at the University of Music in Vienna. At the age of 23, he received his diploma in conducting from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and was immediately engaged as a repetiteur at the Opera National du Rhin. He served as chief conductor and assistant music director at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. Until the end of the 2017/18 season, he held the position of Music Director at Theater Görlitz. Since the 2023/24 season he has been music director of the Aalto-Musiktheater and the Essen Philharmonic.

 His extensive repertoire starts with Viennese operetta and moves from Italian literature to German, French and contemporary music. In this context he has collaborated with many renowned artists such as Frank Peter Zimmermann, Lisette Oropesa, Maria Agresta, Benjamin Bernheim, Massimo Cavalletti and Vitaly Kovalyov. In the past season he conducted Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Staatsoper Hannover, Lehár's Die lustige Witwe at Oper Cologne and Bellini's Norma at Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg. Previously, he made his debuts at Opera Australia (Donizetti: Roberto Devereux) and at the Grand Théatre de Genève (Donizetti: Maria Stuarda), staged Rossini's La Cenerentola at Oper Leipzig, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at Opernhaus Zürich and new productions of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia and Verdi's Don Carlo at Aalto Theater Essen. He has conducted concerts by the Munich Symphony, the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Mulhouse.