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Gianluigi Gelmetti is one of today\u2019s most prestigious conductors. Since his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Italian conductor, pupil of Sergiu Celibidache, Franco Ferrara and Hans Swarowski, regularly appears on the podium of the world\u2019s most important opera houses and festivals.<\/p>\n

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He was Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra for ten years and Music Director of the Teatro dell\u2019Opera in Rome from 2000 to 2009. Since 2004, he is Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He also regularly works at the Monte Carlo Opera and the Royal Opera house-Covent Garden.<\/p>\n

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Maestro Gelmetti is specialized in the Italian and French operatic repertory of the 19th<\/sup>\u00a0and 20th<\/sup>Century, including revivals and premieres of rarely performed works. In Italy, he has conducted numerous productions at the Rossini Opera Festival, receiving the \u201cRossini d\u2019Oro\u201d award with\u00a0Guillaume Tell<\/em>\u00a0in 1999. He was also awarded the Tokyo critics\u2019 prize \u201cBest Performance of the Year\u201d with Beethoven\u2019s\u00a0Symphony n.9<\/em>\u00a0in 1997.<\/p>\n

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In 2006, he led a triumphal \u201cdouble-tourne\u00e9\u201d to Japan, both presenting\u00a0with the Teatro dell\u2019Opera in Rome and leading the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in concerts with music of Ravel and Tchaikovsky.<\/p>\n

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His catalogue, recorded mostly for EMI but also for Sony, Ricordi, Fonit, Teldec and Agor\u00e0, shows the extent and complexity of his repertoire, including: several operas by Rossini, Puccini and Mozart; Ravel orchestral music; Mozart Symphonies; and selected works by Stravinsky, Berg, Webern, Var\u00e8se and Rota. Recent releases include Bruckner\u2019s\u00a0Symphony n.6<\/em>\u00a0and Rossini\u2019s\u00a0Stabat Mater<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Maestro Gelmetti is also the composer of, among many others:\u00a0In Paradisum Deducant Te Angeli<\/em>, premiered by the Orchestra and Choir of Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and later performed in London, Munich, Frankfurt, Budapest, Sydney and Stuttgart;\u00a0Algos<\/em>\u00a0for big orchestra, premiered in 1997 by the M\u00fcnchener Philharmoniker; and\u00a0Prasanta Atma<\/em>, commissioned in 1999 to celebrate Sergiu Celibidache.\u00a0In 2000, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna commissioned him\u00a0Cantata della Vita<\/em>\u00a0for choir, cello solo and orchestra.<\/p>\n

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He conducted:\u00a0Falstaff<\/em>\u00a0at the Op\u00e9ra in Monte Carlo;\u00a0Guillaume Tell<\/em>\u00a0at the Opernhaus Zurich in Monte Carlo and in Paris;\u00a0La Forza del Destino<\/em>\u00a0in Parma;\u00a0Les Vepres Siciliennes<\/em>\u00a0in Naples;\u00a0Turandot<\/em>\u00a0in Tokyo;\u00a0Il Barbiere di Siviglia<\/em>\u00a0in Toulouse;\u00a0Francesca da Rimini, Amica<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Das Rheingold<\/em>\u00a0in Monte Carlo;\u00a0I Due Foscari\u00a0<\/em>in Toulouse\u00a0;\u00a0Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata and Mozart’s Requiem<\/em>\u00a0in Trieste;\u00a0La Fanciulla del West<\/em>\u00a0in Li\u00e8ge; Rossini’s\u00a0Stabat Mater<\/em>\u00a0in Sarajevo; Verdi’s\u00a0Requiem<\/em>\u00a0in Rome and Taranto; and numerous symphonic concerts in Berlin and Copenhagen.\u00a0Most recentely Gelmetti conducted\u00a0La Cenerentola<\/em>\u00a0for Rada Film and the direction of Carlo Verdone: again in Trieste for Haydn\u2019s\u00a0Die Schoepfung<\/em>,\u00a0Don Giovanni<\/em>\u00a0and Mozart\u2019s\u00a0Requiem<\/em>; then\u00a0Guglielmo Tell\u00a0<\/em>in Montecarlo and Paris; Verdi\u2019s\u00a0Requiem<\/em>\u00a0in Rome and Taranto. He has also conducted a symphonic concert with the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna with an all-Tchaikovsky program.<\/p>\n

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His recent plans include:\u00a0Die Fledermaus<\/em>\u00a0in Trieste, Rossini\u2019s\u00a0Stabat Mater<\/em>\u00a0in Taranto and Rome with the Orchestra della Magna Grecia. He will conduct soon in Trieste Beethoven\u2019s\u00a0Missa Solemnis<\/em>, a series of concerts with the Orquesta Sinf\u00f3nica del Sodre in Montevideo andManon Lescaut<\/em>\u00a0in Liege.<\/p>\n

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He teaches orchestral conducting at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena since 1997 and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.<\/p>\n

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Gianluigi Gelmetti was named “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” in France and “Cavaliere di Gran Croce” by Italy\u2019s President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.<\/p>\n

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