Opera "L'elisir d'amore" by Gaetano Donizetti on October 17 will be conducted by the Italian maestro Francesco Angelico.

 

The critically acclaimed conductor, FRANCESCO ANGELICO was born in Caltagirone, Sicily in 1977. Since 20217 he has held the position of General Music Director of the Staatstheater Kassel. From August 2024, he will take over the title of Chief Conductor of the Staatsorchester Kassel. His conducting has been highly valued by audiences and critics, including his interpretation of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung and the Schumann-Brahms cycle. 

Francesco Angelico regularly conducts at leading opera houses around the world, including Tokyo Opera City, Bavarian State Opera Munich, Stuttgart Opera, Graz Opera, Opera du Capitole Toulouse.
 
Francesco Angelico was chief conductor of the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck from 2013 to 2017 and of the Tyrolean State Theater from 2015 to 2017. He received the Austrian Music Theater Prize in 2016 for his production of Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. In 2011 he won the German Conductors’ Prize.
After completing his cello studies at the Conservatory in Modena in 2001, he began his conducting studies with Giorgio Bernasconi at the Lugano University of Music in 2003, which he completed in 2006. During this time he worked as Bernasconi’s assistant in the Swiss Radio’s “900 Passato e presente” concert series for contemporary music. The cultivation of contemporary music continues to play a special role in his repertoire.

 

Roles of "L'elisir d'amore" on October 17 will be interpreted by Lubov Karetnikova, Dainis Kalnačs (debut!), Rinalds Kandalincevs, Peter Kálmán and Laura Kancāne.