Giuseppe Finzi

Biography

Giuseppe Finzi made his debut at the National Theatre in Prague as conductor of Puccini's Turandot.

He worked at Milan's Teatro alla Scala, where he collaborated with Riccardo Muti, and in 2003 he began his conducting career with Puccini's Tosca, followed by productions of Verdi's La traviata and Rigoletto, Donizetti's L’elisir d‘amore, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's Così fan tutte. In 2008, he made his San Francisco Opera debut with Puccini's La bohème and began a significant collaboration with the opera house, where he was then the permanent conductor from 2011-15. His conducting credits include Verdi's Aida, Puccini's La fanciulla del West, Madama Butterfly, Tosca and Turandot, Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Gounod's Faust and a number of symphonic concerts. In recent seasons, he has conducted new productions of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, La bohème and Donizetti's Don Pasquale. In 2012 he made his debut with Carmen at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He also conducted L’elisir d‘amore at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Verdi's Nabucco at the Opéra de Monte Carlo, and the European premiere of Marco Tutino's La ciociara at the Teatro Lirico Cagliari, Madama Butterfly, La bohème, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at the Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen, Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles at the Nice Opera, Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in Genoa and Il barbiere di Siviglia in Turin.