CONDUCTOR
Carlo Benedetto Cimento is currently First Kapellmeister at Landestheater Salzburg, where he conducted Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Il viaggio a Reims (production by Andrea Bernard), Mozart’s Lucio Silla (production by Amelie Niermeyer) as well as Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping beauty in the woods. He recently conducted Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz directed by Johannes Reitmeier as well as Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Friedrich von Flotow’s Martha. In April 2025, directed by Alexandra Liedtke, he conducted the first modern performance in Austria of Salieri’s Il mondo alla rovescia, the result of a research carried out by Cimento himself.
Critics recognise his influence on the sound of Mozarteumorchester and his overall vision of the stage-musical events, as well as his leadership of the vocal ensemble.
He was appointed conductor in residence by KALA Kammerphilharmonie in Landshut. He conducted Cappella Aquileia, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Norddeutsche Philharmonie, the Orchestra of Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Orquesta filarmónica de Gran Canaria and Münchner Symphoniker. He conducted at Wiener Musikverein (Gläsener Saal), Felsenreitschule in Salzburg, Concert Hall in Beijin and Konzerthaus Mozart Saal in Wien.
From 2021 to 2023 he was Kapellmeister at Mainfranken Theater in Würzburg, where he conducted Die Zauberflöte, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Onegin, La clemenza di Tito and Anatevka.
He was an assistant to Marcus Bosch for the Opernfestspiele Heidenheim, to Martin Haselböck at Wiener Akademie (Liszt Festival Raiding, Brucknerhaus Linz), to Thomas Hengelbrock and the Balthasar Neumann Choir and Ensemble (Cavalleria Rusticana in Baden-Baden), to Christoph Meier for the Wien ‘Teatro Barocco’ Festival, where he conducted from the fortepiano the world première of Benda’s Philon und Theone, Gluck’s La corona and Haydn’s L’isola disabitata, a production proposed for the ‘Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis 2019’.
He attended master classes of Christian Thielemann (Bayreuther Festspiele), Daniele Gatti (Accademia Musicale Chigiana), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Nicolás Pasquet, Karel Mark Chichon, Yu Feng, Donato Renzetti.
In the past, he was an Italian coach in the singing classes at HfM in Würzburg and is now invited as a member of the jury in various opera singing competitions such as ‘Vincerò’ and ‘Belvedere Singing competition’.
He studied organ and composition, obtaining a diploma in organ at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien under the guidance of Pier Damiano Peretti, participating to master classes held by Marie-Claire Alain, Klemens Schnorr, Jürgen Essl. He has given organ concerts in Lucca, Cremona, Padova, Wien. He composed for antique organ Velox Caeli Machina (for the Wöckherl organ of the Franziskanerkirche in Wien, 1642), Capriccio sopra UT, La prima vera primavera (for the Egedacher of the Zwettl Monastery, 1731), In Memoriam, Minerva for piano (published by Edizione Sconfinarte).
He attended Loïc Mallié’s (Olivier Messiaen’s pupil) improvisation class at Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique et de danse in Lyon. He studied orchestral conducting with Giancarlo Andretta at Conservatorio ‘A. Pedrollo’ in Vicenza obtaining a diploma with honors at MDW in Wien with Johannes Wildner. He also holds a master’s degree of Hochschule für Musik und Theater in München with Marcus Bosch and Georg Fritzsch.
