"Being a conductor is about bringing people together to make music. It's about leading an orchestra with precision, passion and creativity. It's about communicating your vision to the musicians and inspiring them to give their best performance"
Discovered by Zubin Mehta since 2001, Montanaro has conducted opera and concerts in all the major worldwide venues, and has debuted and been reinvented for productions for La Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra national de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Opera Tel Aviv, Opéra Bastille in Paris, Opéra de Monte-Carol, San Francisco Opera, Korean National Opera, Canadian Opera, Seattle Opera, Melbourne Opera, Dallas Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Hamburgische Staatsoper, as well as the houses of Sydney Opera, Megaron in Athens, Verona, Napoli, Parma, Warsaw, Bilbao, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Cincinnati, Budapest, Mariinsky, Tokyo, Nagoya, and Oviedo. Carlo was also Music Director at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw from 2011 2014
“Montanaro let the music breathe and unfold in a carefully measured pace, matched flawlessly to the work onstage.” John Terauds, The Star
In concert he has led performances for Festival Verdi (Parma), Hercules Halle in Munich with Weimar Staatskapelle, at the Musikvere in Graz, and for Boston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Santa Cecilia in Rome, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Hungarian National Philharminic, Teatro Regio di Parma, as well as the Gala Klangvokal Music Festival in Dortmund, among various others.
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Puccini’s Tosca Recording Featuring M° Carlo Montanaro and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin is out by Pentatone
The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and conductor Carlo Montanaro present a powerful interpretation of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, together with a cast of soloists including Melody Moore (Tosca), Ștefan Pop (Cavaradossi) and Lester Lynch (Scarpia).
