Siragusa, Fiume, Ravizza, Corrado, Hungarian Radio Choir, Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Corrado Rovaris
Biography Siragusa, Fiume, Ravizza, Corrado, Hungarian Radio Choir, Orchestra Donizetti Opera & Corrado Rovaris
Corrado Rovaris
is the Music Director of Opera Philadelphia and Music Director of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra, founded by the Walton Arts Center in 2011. Celebrated for his vibrant style, particularly in the bel canto repertoire, Rovaris's warm presence on the podium has made him a favorite among opera's greatest stars.
Rovaris opens Opera Philadelphia's 2023/24 season with SIMON BOCCANEGRA and returns in spring 2024 to conduct a new production of MADAME BUTTERFLY. In November, he will lead a revival of ALFREDO IL GRANDE at the 2023 Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, the first production of this work since its premiere two hundred years ago in Naples. In January, he will conduct LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Following the Artosphere Festival in May, Rovaris will conduct eleven performances of LA TRAVIATA at Santa Fe Opera throughout the summer.
A champion of new works, Rovaris played a key role in launching Opera Philadelphia's annual Festival O, a two-week event featuring world premieres and other operatic events throughout the city, as well as the Aurora Series for Chamber Opera. Recent premieres include GLASS HANDEL, an operatic art installation featuring the music of George Frideric Handel and Philip Glass, co-produced by Opera Philadelphia and National Sawdust; ELIZABETH CREE, a chamber opera by Pulitzer Prize-winner Kevin Puts based on the novel by Peter Ackroyd; and the critically acclaimed WRITTEN ON SKIN by George Benjamin.
Corrado Rovaris was born in Bergamo, Italy, and graduated from the Milan Conservatory with degrees in composition, organ, and harpsichord. From 1992 to 1996 he was assistant chorus master at the Teatro alla Scala. Soon after, he began appearing as a regular guest at many of Italy's major opera houses, including La Scala, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro La Fenice, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Internationally, he has conducted productions for the Opéra de Lyon, the Opera Monte Carlo, the Théâtre Municipal de Lausanne, the Cologne Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, the Garsington Opera Festival, and the Japan Opera Foundation in Tokyo, among others. In North America, Rovaris has conducted the Canadian Opera Company, the Santa Fe Opera, the St. Louis Opera, and the Glimmerglass Opera. In October 2008, he conducted the Tucker Gala with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, which featured Susan Graham and Bryn Terfel as guest soloists. He has developed a close relationship with the Curtis Institute of Music and has directed several joint productions of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Philadelphia Opera since 2009, including the 2018 production of Bernstein's A Quiet Place.
Maestro Rovaris was knighted in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2015 and awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize in 2016.
