Antonino Fogliani has been principal guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein since 2017 and musical director of the Belcanto Opera Festival Rossini in Bad Wildbad since 2012. 

He is considered one of today's leading bel canto conductors and has made guest appearances on the most prestigious stages since his acclaimed debut at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro in 2001. His most recent successes include Maria Stuarda at La Scala in Milan, Don Pasquale, Amica and Mosè in Egitto at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio and Otello at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Rigoletto and Il turco in Italia at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Turandot at the Bolshoi, Otello, Il Signor Bruschino and La sposa di Messina at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, Lucia di Lammermoor in Bergamo and at the Bavarian State Opera, Carmen at the Bregenz Festival and at the Semperoper, Tosca at the Arena di Verona and at the Frankfurt Opera. 

In the coming seasons, he will conduct new productions such as I puritani and La bohème in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, Il trovatore in Leipzig, Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Donna del lago in Zurich, Il barbiere di Siviglia at Covent Garden in London.