Designated First Conductor at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar starting in the 2025/26 season, Marco Alibrando is also the Music Director of VoceAllOpera.

 

Born in Messina in 1987, he made his conducting debut at the age of 24 in Florence, Italy. Since then, he has built a distinguished career, appearing at prestigious festivals such as Rossini in Wildbad, where he conducted Adina, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro with Duetti Amorosi, and the Spoleto Festival with Delitto e Dovere.

In 2024, he debuted at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires conducting the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires and at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, conducting Rigoletto in a production staged by Damiano Michieletto.

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His recent and upcoming operatic engagements include a debut at Teatro alla Scala di Milano, conducting the soloists and the orchestra of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, a new production of Die lustige Witwe that will open the Macerata Opera Festival 2025, The Bear by W. Walton at the Teatro Regio di Torino, Turandot in Wiesbaden, and Werther, Hänsel und Gretel, Der Mordfall, Il barbiere di Siviglia and La traviata at the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar. He also conducted Lucia di Lammermoor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf in a production directed by Christof Loy, Aida in Novara and Opera Time Machine in Rijeka. Since 2022, he has been a regular guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he has led productions of La Cenerentola, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La fille du régiment, Lucia di Lammermoor, L’elisir d’amore, and Adriana Lecouvreur. Other recent performances include Evgenij Onegin for the Nederlandse Reisopera, Le nozze di Figaro and Rigoletto at the Stresa Festival, Gli arabi nelle Gallie at Rossini in Wildbad and the Royal Opera Festival in Krakow, Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento in collaboration with singers from the Rosa Feola and Sergio Vitale masterclass, and productions of La bohème, L’occasione fa il ladro, and Il Tabarro in Novara, Milan (VoceAllOpera), and Sassari.

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In the symphonic repertoire, his recent and upcoming engagements with leading orchestras, including the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón, the New England Symphonic Ensemble at the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, the Noord Nederlands Orkest, the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini di Parma, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino (New Year Concert on Sky Classica HD), and the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza. He has also conducted concerts with the OTM (Fondazione Accademia Perosi) featuring soloists Giuseppe Gibboni and Carlotta Dalia, as well as performances with the Filarmonica Settenovecento, the Orchestra Sinfonica del Molise, the Orchestra Bruni di Cuneo, and A.Y.S.O. in Bari at the invitation of Emanuele Urso, principal horn of La Scala in Milan. Since 2011, he has worked with renowned orchestras such as the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano, the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino as part of Obiettivo Orchestra, invited by Gianandrea Noseda, the Orchestra F. Cilea di Reggio Calabria, the Orchestra del Teatro Vittorio Emanuele di Messina and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, collaborating with distinguished soloists including Narek Hakhnazaryan, Giuseppe Andaloro, Roberto Cominati, Calogero Palermo, Danilo Rossi, Clarissa Bevilacqua, Giuseppe Ettorre, Luca Buratto, and Gilda Buttà.

 

Among his most notable operatic performances, he has conducted Bluebeard’s Castle by Bartók with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano, La bohème and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, choreographed by Micha van Hoecke, at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele di Messina, Delitto e Dovere by Alberto Colla at the Spoleto Festival and Teatro Coccia di Novara (broadcast on Sky Classica HD), Norma in Castelfiorentino, Suor Angelica and Billy Budd by Ghedini at the Verdi Hall of the Milan Conservatory, Rossini il buongustaio at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Tirana, L’italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola with VoceAllOpera, Madama Butterfly and Il Tabarro for the opening of the opera season at the Teatro Verdi di Sassari, as well as Carmina Burana on the island of Elba.

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Marco Alibrando studied conducting with Gianandrea Noseda, Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena, Vittorio Parisi, Lutz Köhler at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Antonino Fogliani, Donato Renzetti, Romolo Gessi, and Giuseppe Lanzetta. He graduated with highest honors in Conducting from the "G. Verdi" Conservatory of Milan, where he also obtained degrees in Composition, studying under Danilo Lorenzini and Gianni Possio, and in Piano with Antonella Salpietro in Messina.

 

Throughout his career, he has worked as an assistant to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Giuliano Carella, Domingo Hindoyan, Antonino Fogliani and Robin Ticciati.

 

January 2025