GM Art&Music is thrilled to welcome Maestro Daniele Callegari for Worldwide General Management.
Daniele Callegari was Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice at the Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur from 2021 to 2023. From 1998 to 2001 he was Principal Conductor at the Wexford Opera Festival and from 2002 to 2008 he was Music Director of the De Filharmonie (Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra) in Antwerp.
In 2022 he was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by French Republic. Born in Milan, he graduated from the city’s Conservatory in double bass and percussion. At just 22, he joined the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, where he had the opportunity to play with some of the world’s most renowned conductors.
This stimulating encounter with such renowned names brought him back to the Conservatory to study conducting and composition.
Daniele Callegari has directed some of the major concert institutions in the world, including:
l’Orchestre Metropolitain de Montréal, Orchestre Nationale de l’Île de France, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre de La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de Madrid, Orchestra Sinfonica “Giuseppe Verdi” di Milano.
Recent engagements: Iris di Mascagni (concert) at Teatro Real di Madrid; Cavalleria Rusticana Pagliacci at Bayerische Staatsoper; Rigoletto at Metropolitan in New York and at Teatro La Fenice ; Il trovatore at Metropolitan in New York; Tosca at Royal Opera in Stockholm and at Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago; Luisa Miller (concert) at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli; Cavalleria Rusticana e Pagliacci, and Turandot in Hamburg; Nabucco at Metropolitan in New York; Madama Butterfly at Festival in Lubiana with La Fenice di Venezia; La Bohème e Falstaff in Nice; Ernani e Adriana Lecouvreur in Oviedo; La Gioconda at Chorégies d’Orange; Aida in Hamburg; Pagliacci in Tel Aviv; Rigoletto at Gran Teatre del Liceu; Tosca in Moscow and Tokyo; I lombardi
alla prima crociata at Opéra di Montecarlo.
Future engagements: Rigoletto in Tokyo; Turandot at Opera in Shanghai; Aida at Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla; Pagliacci at Teatro La Fenice di Venezia; Luisa Miller at Wiener Staatsoper; Aida at Metropolitan in New York.
Welcome on board, Daniele.