Andrea Battistoni

Born in Verona in 1987, Andrea Battistoni is one of the most appreciated young conductors on the international music scene.

After his official debut in Verona, where he conducted Puccini’s La Boheme in a Youth Production, the great recognition of the public and critics came during the 2010 Verdi Festival during which, conducting G. Verdi’s Attila, he showed his incredible and precocious talents as a conductor and as a musician endowed with great dramatic impetus and innate musicality.

Immediately the doors of the world’s most important Theaters and some of the most prestigious Symphony Orchestras opened wide.

He was appointed First Guest Conductor of the Teatro Regio di Parma from 2010 to 2013. He has conducted in Verdi’s hometown Falstaff, Stiffelio, Battaglia di Legnano, Barbiere di Siviglia and Rigoletto.

On the same time, since 2011 he has been a regular guest at the Arena di Verona where he has conducted Barbiere di Siviglia, Traviata, Turandot, Ballo in Maschera, Aida and Nabucco.

He has debuted in some of the most prestigious International Theaters becoming, over the years, a regular guest; among others: Il Trovatore, Nabucco, Tosca, Boheme, Rigoletto, Aida at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin; Rigoletto, La Boheme at the Palau del Les Arts in Valencia; Boheme, Traviata, Tosca at the Semperoper in Dresden; in St. Petersburg he conducted Attila and Tosca; Stiffelio and Tosca at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm; Otello, Tosca, Mefistofele, Attila, Aida, Turandot at Opera Australia in Sydney.

In 2012 he made his Teatro alla Scala debut with Le Nozze di Figaro, entering the history of the theater as the youngest conductor ever to take the podium.

Other major debuts followed at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with Il Cappello di Paglia, at the Carlo Felice in Genoa with Macbeth, at the Rossini Opera Festival with Il Viaggio a Reims, at the Stresa Festival with Il Matrimonio Segreto, at the Wiesbaden Festival with Elisir d’amore, at the San Carlo in Naples with La Boheme, at the Fenice in Venice with Il Barbiere di Siviglia, at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste with La Traviata at the Sferisterio Festival in Macerata with Rigoletto, at the Teatro Regio in Turin with La Boheme.

From November 2013 to December 2019 he is Principal Conductor of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; he has conducted, among others, productions of Otello (with Kunde, Agresta to be directed by Livermore), Carmen (with Ganassi, Meli and directed by Livermore), Luisa Miller (with Pirozzi and Nucci), Billy Budd (directed by Livermore), Amico Fritz in Concert form.

Notable engagements in recent Seasons include:
London’s Covent Garden debut with Tosca; Amsterdam debut with Traviata; Munich debut with Boheme, Ballo in maschera, Tosca, Macbeth; opening of the 2024/2025 Season in Dresden with Mefistofele.

Since January 2025 he is the Music Director of Teatro Regio in Turin, one of most prestigious Opera Housein Italy.

Parallel to the operatic repertoire, the series of debuts with some of the most prestigious Orchestras internationally made a remarkable impression.

These include Filarmonica della Scala, RAI di Torino, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Israel Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, etc etc.

At the end of 2013 he began his Artistic association with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, which would see him appointed a few months later as “Chief Conductor” for numerous Seasons and which occupies a prominent place in his current career.

Numerous Concerts each season, Operas in Concert form and symphonic recordings see him at the center of Japanese musical life and have, in fact, elected him as one of the most highly regarded Artists in symphony and opera in the East Countries.

Andrea Battistoni is also a composer, and his works are beginning to be highly appreciated for the variety of taste and styles and the propensity to search for a very personal and fresh musical line with a compositional vein that is as bright and captivating as ever.