Gianluca Martinenghi is an

Italian opera Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was born in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in the history of the form until the present day. Many famous ...

and

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music conductor Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duti ...

. From 2016 to 2018 he was the

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of Macedonian National Theatre. Currently he is the Artistic Secretary of Teatro Reggio in Turin, Italy,

Early life and background

Gianluca Martinenghi used to go learning

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and composition with Piero Rattalino and

Bruno Bettinelli Bruno Bettinelli (4 June 1913 – 8 November 2004) was an Italian composer and teacher. Biography Bruno Bettinelli was born in Milan where he studied at the Conservatorio "G. Verdi" in Milan, under the tutelage of Giulio Cesare Paribeni and Ren ...

respectively. Accompanying with Donato Renzetti and Giacomo Zani, he began studying orchestral conducting later. In association with Teatro Massimo he worked as a conductor. He worked as a musicologist writer and was published at specialized magazines for piano review especially in ''Musica'', ''Piano Time'' and ''Symphonia''. At that time he began working in Teatro regio di torino as a

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, that led him to the operatic repertoire, being an assistant to accomplished musicians for example

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and

Gianandrea Gavazzeni Gianandrea Gavazzeni (25 July 19095 February 1996) was an Italian pianist, conductor (especially of opera), composer and musicologist. Gavazzeni was born in Bergamo. For almost 50 years, starting from 1948, he was principal conductor at La Sca ...

. In the first part of his career, he executed several symphonic concerts and contemporary 20th Century productions by

Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...

and Hans Werner Henze. With his music direction, an

Opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

was staged at the Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre in 2018. In 2012,

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and L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal were two of his vital international orchestras. In 2013, he inaugurated the Taormina Festival with Rigoletto (broadcast worldwide) and in 2014 he inaugurated with Aida and the Orchestra of Teatro Bellini di Catania the Siracusa Festival.

Conduct at major concert halls

Gianluca Martinenghi is known to be invited to conduct

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s which includes:

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’s Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra,

, Ochestra Sinfonica dello Sferisterio di Macerata, Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, la Suisse Romande, Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, Carlo Felice di Genova, Toscanini di Parma, The National Hungarian Filarmomic Orchestra, Sinfonica de Malaga, Teatro Comunale di Modena, Orquesta del

Teatro Colón The Teatro Colón (Spanish: ''Columbus Theatre'') is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic. According to a survey carried out by the acousti ...

, Sinfónica de Tenerife, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari.

Repertoire

As an operatic conductor, Martinenghi has some notable titles in his

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. Among them Croatian National Theatre, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Georgian National Theatre, Grand Theatre de Tours,

Irish National Opera The Irish National Opera was created from a merger of the Opera Theatre Company (OTC) and Wide Open Opera in 2017 and launched in January 2018. The new entity continues the tradition of the former Opera Ireland (), Ireland's first permanent natio ...

, Macedonian National Theatre, NCPA of

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, Palm Beach Opera, Seoul Opera Center,

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan The is a Japanese concert hall located in Ueno Park, Taitō, Tokyo. Designed by Japanese architect Kunio Maekawa, it was built in 1961 and renovated in 1998–99. Its larger hall seats 2303 people, and its small hall seats 649. It is operated ...

Teatro Lirico di Cagliari The Teatro Lirico di Cagliari is an opera house in Cagliari. It is the main theatre of the city. The Teatro Lirico was built in order to provide a large theatre to the city. After the destruction of the ''Teatro Civico'', damaged by the shelli ...

, Slovenian National Theatre,

Sydney Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-century architec ...

, Teatro Bellini di Catania, Comunale di Bologna, dell'Opera di Roma, Verona Arena and Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo.

Nominations and accolades

Gianluca Martinenghi was nominated Principal Guest Conductor to the Tenerife Opera Festival in the period included between 2009/2011, and Chief Conductor of Macedonian Opera Theatre from 2016 until 2018. In January 2023 he was nominated Artistic Secretary of Teatro Reggio in Turin, Italy,

Discography

* "L'arca di Noè" Benjamin Britten, Fondazione Teatro Massimo Palermo, 2002 * "Duetti Verdiani" Amarilli Nizza- Roberto Frontali, Orchestra del Teatro di Slesia e Moravia "A.Dvorak, 2010 * "Amarilli Nizza Puccini"- Orchestra of the Dvorak Theatre of Ostrava, 2008 * "This is my Verdi"- Amarilli Nizza, Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, 2015 * "Gianluca Terranova canta Caruso" Orchestra Fondazione Arena di Verona, 2012

References

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