Luciano Di Martino
Italian-German conductor Luciano Di Martino is highly regarded for his intensity, spontaneity, precision, expressiveness, and distinctive musicality in concert, opera, and ballet performances.
Since 2008, he has been a regular guest conductor at the Hamburg State Opera, leading numerous performances of Verdi’s La Traviata and Luisa Miller. In the Hanseatic city, he has also enjoyed a long-standing collaboration with the director of the Hamburg Ballet and choreographer John Neumeier, conducting many of his ballets, such as The Nutcracker, The Little Mermaid, The Glass Menagerie and Duse starring the internationally acclaimed artist and principal dancer Alessandra Ferri. In spring 2025, he conducted Neumeier’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
An internationally sought-after guest conductor, he has conducted many renowned orchestras, including the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, Symphony Orchestra of NBC in Beijing, Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Filarmonica Marchigiana, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra.
Luciano Di Martino conducted, among others, Attila, Aida, Don Carlos, L’elisir d’amore, I Pagliacci, La Sonnambula and Mendelssohnʼs oratorio Elijah at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, Lucia di Lammermoor at the Historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, Otello and Tosca at the Novosibirsk Opera Theatre, Eugene Onegin at the National Opera Bucharest, Rigoletto at the National Opera Sofia, Gluckʼs Orfeo ed Euridice, Così fan tutte, Il Trovatore, Nabucco, Manon Lescaut, Turandot and Macbeth at the State Opera Plovdiv, Carmina Burana at the Thessaloniki Megaron Concert Hall and Madama Butterfly at the New Israeli Opera.
At the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse, he realised a complete audio recording of the ballet Giselle and conducted the premiere of La Sylphide in collaboration with the choreographer and August Bournonvilleʼs ballet expert, Dinna Bjørn.
His work extends to contemporary music, having performed pieces by Lera Auerbach, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, and others.
After his first positions as General Music Director of the State Opera in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, he was appointed permanent conductor of the Classic FM Radio Orchestra in Sofia. He is currently the conductor and artistic director of the Plovdiv State Opera in Bulgaria.
He studied conducting at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg under Professor Klauspeter Seibel and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung and the legendary Ilya Musin.
In the 2025/26 season, Luciano Di Martino will make his debut with the Vienna State Ballet, conducting Roland Petitʼs Die Fledermaus and Elena Tchernichovaʼs Giselle.