Pier Giorgio Morandi

Pier Giorgio Morandi played for ten years as principal oboist in Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He studied composition at Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan, and orchestra conducting at Salzburg Mozarteum with M° Ferdinand Leitner. During the years spent at La Scala, Morandi was assistant conductor of  M° Riccardo Muti and later of M° Giuseppe Patanè, from whom he gained a lot of experience in refining the stylistic Italian repertoire and in learning all the secrets of the Italian operatic tradition. In 1987 he studied in Tanglewood, USA, with M° Leonard Bernstein and M° Seiji Ozawa. In the same year, Morandi  won the »Tanglewood Competition«. In 1989 he  became  Deputy Principal Conductor at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, where he conducted »Ernani«, »Madama Butterfly« and several symphonic concerts. In 1990 he recorded his first opera with Roma opera house, Paisiello’s »Don Chisciotte«. From 1991 and for the following five years, he was Principal Guest Conductor at Budapest National Opera House. Morandi  has a wide Italian operatic repertoire and he has been working as regular guest conductor since 1990 in all the major opera houses in Italy, Europe and worldwide: Palermo, Trieste, Roma, Marseille, La Maestranza in Seville, Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Osaka, National Opera Theatre in Seoul, Colon in Buenos Aires, Stockholm Royal Opera House, Theatre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, Wiener Staatsoper, Macerata Opera Festival, Arena di Verona, Opernhaus Zürich, Goteborg, Teatro Regio di Parma, Napoli, Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Bilbao, Maiorca, Las Palmas, Valencia, Copenhagen Royal Opera House, Seattle Opera, Royal Albert Hall in London. Future engagements: his return to Met with Rigoletto, then Carmen, Tosca, Il trovatore and Andrea Chenier at Wiener Staatsoper, La Fanciulla del West at Hamburgische Staatsoper.