CONDUCTOR
Andrea Molino opened the Accademia Chigiana’s International Weeks 2023 on the 100th anniversary of its foundation by conducting Luciano Berio’s Voci and Coro . In the same week he conducted his new composition for choir and percussion La Vérité, pas toute. He recently conducted the world premiere of Mickel Kalsson’s Melancholia at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.
He also conducted Berg’s Wozzeck directed by William Kentridge and Shostakovich’s The Nose directed by Barrie Kosky at the Sydney Opera House for Opera Australia; then the world premiere of Cathy Marston’s The Cellist at the Royal Opera House in London; Szymanowski’s Kròl Roger at the Royal Opera in Stockholm; a Mahler/Messiaen/Strauss programme with Thomas Hampson and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Carmen at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. For Opera Australia he conducted Kròl Roger , directed by Kasper Holten (Green Room Award 2018), Carmen, Tosca and La Bohème (2015 NYE Gala at the Sydney Opera House), A Masked Ball (directed by Àlex Ollé) and Macbeth. At Teatro La Fenice in Venezia he opened the 2010 concert season with the world premiere of Maderna’s Requiem and La Biennale Musica 2005 with Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities.
He conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Brussels Philharmonic, Bochumer Symphoniker, Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, Dresdner Sinfoniker, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, BBC SSO of Glasgow, Royal Swedish Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de Lyon. He was also invited by Edinburgh Festival, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berliner Festspiele , Berliner Philharmoniker, Beijing Opera House, Sydney Festival, Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Opéra de Nancy, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Romaeuropa Festival, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Musik der Jahrhunderte in Stuttgart, Music Biennale Zagreb , Festspielehaus Hellerau in Dresden.
His recordings are published on CD and DVD by Stradivarius, Milano, ECM, München , Naïve, Paris, and ABC Classics, Sydney for editions RAI Com, Nuova Stradivarius, and Ricordi.
With the Pocket Opera Company in Nürnberg he performed his composition The Smiling Carcass (1999) and Those Who Speak in a Faint Voice (2001), about the death penalty (both in collaboration with Oliviero Toscani), first examples of his commitment to innovative, multimedia-oriented music theatre. As the Artistic Director of Fabrica Musica from 2000 to 2006, Andrea Molino carried out several ambitious interdisciplinary projects. His multimedia music theatre CREDO, on ethnic and religious conflicts, was premiered in April 2004 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and later performed at the Stazione Termini in Roma for the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. In 2005 he opened the Queensland Music Festival in Brisbane, Australia, with WINNERS premiered in 2006 at the Brisbane Festival, followed by the European Premiere at Centre Pompidou in Paris.
His multimedia staged concert un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l’être was premiered in 2008 at Le Fresnoy, in Lille, where he was “Invited Artist”. In 2009 he was in charge of Festival The Garden of Forking Paths for the World Venice Forum. At Basilica dei Frari in Venezia he conducted the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice for his multimedia concert Of Flowers And Flames. Three Mile Island was first performed in 2012 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Music Theatre Now Award 2013) followed by the Italian premiere at Teatro India in Roma.
His most recent opera, Qui non c’è perché, was premiered at Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 2014 and revived in May 2015 in Antwerp at De Singel for Vlaamse Opera. I want the things, written for David Moss, has been performed in 2020 by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin as a part of their Dear Ireland project.
Andrea Molino, composer and conductor, was born in Torino , studied in Torino, Milano, Venezia, Paris, Freiburg. He lives between Paris and Zürich.
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