About

Alessandro d’Agostini, one of the most outstanding Italian conductors of his generation, was born in 1974 and started his musical studies at five. After graduating in piano, conducting and composition as well in computer music, he studied with Giorgio Nottoli (composition for computer music) at Accademia Chigiana, Siena, and with Kostantin Bogino, Tchaikovsky Trio (piano and chamber music). He specialised subsequently in conducting under Piero Bellugi and Massimo de Bernart.
In 2002, he made his operatic debut in Rossini’s Guglielmo Tell (production “As.Li.Co.”, Milan) at Teatro Comunale - Bologna and at the Opera Houses of the Circuito Lombardo. In the following years, he conducts as well other “As.Li.Co.” productions: Gluck’s Orfeo e Euridice, Donizetti’s Elisir d’Amore and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. In 2003, he led the Symphonic Orchestra of the “Toscanini” Foundation, Parma in the first modern performance of the “commedia per musica” Lo Matremmonio annascuso by Leonardo Leo on his own critical edition. As a matter of fact, he often combines his conducting activity with musical research, especially in the field of XVIII century opera: we might mention his critical editions and first modern performances of Luigi Cherubini’s Ifigenia in Aulide and Leonardo Leo’s L’Olimpiade.
In 2004, he led the Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta “G.F.Malipiero” in Verdi’s Rigoletto at Teatro Fraschini, Pavia, and made his debut with Il Trovatore at Macerata Opera-Sferisterio.
In 2006, he conducted Verdi’s Falstaff at Teatro “Verdi”, Busseto, with a big personal success. He conducted as well Cilea’s L’Arlesiana at the SassuoloMusicaFestival, at Teatro delle Celebrazioni, Bologna, and at Teatro Sociale, Mantova. He conducted Verdi’s Aida at the National Theatre of Tirana, Albania; in the same Theatre, he conducted as well Verdi’s Otello, with huge personal success.
In the next years, he debuted at Teatro Comunale, Bologna (Leonardo Leo’s L’Olimpiade); at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome in the Summer Season at Terme di Caracalla, conducting Adam’s Giselle, with the choreography by Carla Fracci; he conducted a new performance of Rigoletto (with Jessica Pratt as Gilda) at Como-Città della Musica Festival and Donizetti’s La Figlia del Reggimento in the Theatres of the Circuito Lombardo (with Yolanda Auyanet and Gianluca Terranova). All these performances were greeted by enthusiastic success from both the public and critics.
In 2010, Mr. d’Agostini conducted L’Elisir d’amore at Teatro Lirico, Cagliari; in this Opera House he came back again conducting Puccini’s Tosca (2015) and several symphonic performances (the last one, in the Symphonic Season 2016, with music by Ravel and Brahms). In the same year, he made his successful debut at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence, conducting Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
In the field of symphonic music, he led such orchestras as Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino-Florence, Symphonic Orchestra of the “Toscanini” Foundation-Parma, “Toscanini” Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of Teatro Lirico-Cagliari, “I Pomeriggi Musicali” Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta, Italian Philharmonic Orchestra, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Academic State Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Orchestra and State Symphony Orchestra “Novaya Rossiya”. We might mention the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Symphonies (Firenze, Palazzo Pitti, 2000-2001), the performances of Haydn’s Oratorios Die Schöpfung (Firenze, Palazzo Pitti, 1999) and Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (Busseto, 2005), as well as the rarely performed last work by Alfredo Casella, Missa Solemnis “pro pace” (2005).
From 2011 to 2013 he was appointed as Principal Guest Conductor at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet: in this Opera House he conducted Tosca, Turandot, Attila, Aida (with Vladimir Galouzine as Radames), Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Traviata (with Irina Lungu in the title role).
In the last years, he has been regularly invited at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for several opera and ballet productions: Adam’s Giselle, Auber’s Fra’ Diavolo, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore (2016, with Laura Giordano and Juan Francisco Gatell), Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola; and for symphonic performances. In 2016, he conducted the “première” of the opera Notte per me luminosa by Marco Betta, at Teatro “Pavarotti”, Modena, and Teatro Chiabrera, Savona. In 2012, he debuted at Auditorium de Tenerife, Spain, in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte; in 2022, he came back to Tenerife conducting Verdi’s Un Ballo in maschera.
He is often invited as guest conductor in Russia, conducting concerts with the Russian National Orchestra, Academic State Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, State Symphony Orchestra “Novaya Rossiya”, the Moscow City Symphonic Orchestra and the Saint Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Orchestra. We remember, among other, the successful performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana and Mussorgsky’s Picture at an Exhibition at Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory and many symphonic concerts given at the International House of Music, Moscow, or at Saint Petersburg Philharmonia.
Last major events of Mr. d’Agostini’s career include: his debut at Teatro Massimo, Palermo, in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore (2018); in June 2019, he replaced Daniel Oren in the same Opera House, conducting Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and gaining another huge personal success; he led the performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the new Opera Houses of Jinan and Zibo, China; of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Teatro Regio, Parma (2019); of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana at Priamar Fortress, Savona, (Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa); Bellini’s La Sonnambula at Teatro delle Muse, Ancona; Verdi’s La Traviata, Rigoletto and Un Ballo in maschera, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro Comunale “Pavarotti”, Modena (2020-2023); he debuted in the 2020 Symphonic Season at the Arena di Verona Foundation (Teatro Filarmonico, Verona).

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