Principal Guest Conductor of Madrid’s Teatro Real, Maestro Luisotti served as Music Director of San Francisco Opera from 2009 to 2018, conducting over 40 operas and concerts since his Company debut in 2005. In 2018, he was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal for artistic excellence.
Among his distinguished San Francisco Opera credits, Luisotti conducted the Company’s world premiere commissioning project of Marco Tutino’s La Ciociara (Two Women) as well as Salome, Lohengrin, Don Carlo and the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy.
Recent engagements include Mefistofele at Teatro La Fenice, Aida at the Berlin Staatsoper, La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, Aida and La traviata at Vienna State Opera, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, Turandot and Aida at Teatro Real, Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House, Un ballo in maschera at Teatro alla Scala, Macbeth at Zurich Opera, as well as Mahler’s Symphony Nr. 6 with Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and Staatsorchester Stuttgart, and concerts with Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice, ABAO Olbe, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice.
He has received critical acclaim from press and public alike for his performances at the Vienna State Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House in London, Paris National Opera, Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice, Venice’s La Fenice, Bologna’s Teatro Comunale, Turin’s Teatro Regio, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dresden, Hamburg, Valencia, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, Toronto’s Canadian Opera Company, Opernhaus Zürich and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall.
Maestro Luisotti was awarded the 39th Premio Puccini Award in conjunction with the historic 100th anniversary of La Fanciulla del West at the Metropolitan Opera, which he conducted there in 2010. Other awards include the Premio Opera XXI received in Barcelona in 2020 and the Premio Teatro Real received in Madrid in 2021.
Luisotti served as Music Director of Teatro di San Carlo from 2012 through 2014. Aside from opera and concert performances in Naples, he also conducted an historic performance of the Verdi Requiem in San Francisco which included the orchestra and chorus of both Teatro di San Carlo and San Francisco Opera.
Upcoming engagements include Adriana Lecouvreur and Attila at Teatro Real, La forza del destino at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Tosca at Hamburg State Opera and Berlin State Opera, Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci at Vienna State Opera, Rigoletto at Teatro Regio di Torino, as well as symphonic concerts with Staatsorchester Stuttgart.
On the concert stage, Luisotti has worked with the San Francisco Symphony, Filarmonica della Scala, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orchestra of Teatro Regio in Turin, Tokyo Symphony and the NHK Orchestra, Tokyo Philarmonic and Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.
Maestro Luisotti has also conducted several productions captured on DVD including the Metropolitan Opera’s La Bohème and La Fanciulla del West, the Royal Opera Covent Garden productions of Don Giovanni and Nabucco, San Francisco Opera’s Mefistofele, and Teatro Real’s Turandot.
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“An amazing Mahler Symphony n. 3, exceptional; to be remembered a long time from now, and to hold as a winner in comparison to other performances. Undoubtedly the merit of Nicola Luisotti.”
Roberto Mastrosimone, Wanderer’s Blog
“La direzione appassionata di Nicola Luisotti ha dato evidenza alla ricchezza musicale della partitura e alla raffinata strumentazione.”
Lodovico Buscatti, OperaClick
“A mammoth undertaking and immensely successful – the performance by the orchestra of the Teatro Regio….On the podium the expert baton of Nicola Luisotti led the evening with a firm hand and appreciable and formal consistency.”
Attilio Piovano, Il Corriere Musicale
“Musicians of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala have Verdi’s music in their DNA. Under the nimble baton of Maestro Nicola Luisotti the music sounds like the soundtrack to a Hollywood thriller.”
“A production of this scale and singers of this quality are the very reason patrons flock to La Scala.”
Simon Parris, Man in Chair
“In the pit, Nicola Luisotti carries the drama, leading an orchestra wholly focused on his clear, limpid movements. The forces deftly follow the Italian maestro’s sudden rhythmic variations, most notably at the conclusion of each act. Subtleties build, crescendos multiply, and the tension mounts with the vibration of the strings or the chirping of the woodwinds. This evening, the musical pulse is at its most Verdian”
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