Lorenzo Viotti
Conductor
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Lorenzo Viotti is back in Frankfurt, where he has conducted Tosca, Werther and enjoyed great success with the first Museum Concerts this season, for this new production of Manon Lescaut. The designated Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Nationale Opera Amsterdam just made his debut there with a Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci double bill. After very successful performances at opera houses including those in Venice, Lyon, Dresden, Zürich and Tokyo he went to the Opéra National in Paris (house debut) for Carmen, where he will be returning for La Bohème and Faust. Other forthcoming plans include Roméo et Juliette at La Scala in Milan, a new production of Madama Butterfly at the Semperoper in Dresden and his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Lorenzo Viotti is Chief Conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon. He also enjoys a busy concert career, working with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle in Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Munich Philarharmonic, the Philharmonic State Orchestra in Hamburg, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Lorenzo Viotti won the Salzburg Festival's Young Conductors Award when he was 25. He was voted »Newcomer of the Year« at the 2017 International Opera Awards.