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Salvatore Percacciolo conducted Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, where he was Erste Kapellmeister and where he conducted Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Jerry Bock’s Anatevka, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Peter Maxwell Davies’ The lighthouse, Puccini’s Le Villi and Verdi’s Il Trovatore. In 2021, Salvatore Percacciolo opened the opera season of Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania with Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. At the Vollgutlager in Berlin he conducted the world première of Birke Bertelsmeier’s a musical installation, The world to come with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, production by Tilman Hecker.
Invited by the Heidelberger Sinfoniker he conducted a concert with Melanie Diener and Thomas Hampson as soloists.
Recent engagements were Il Barbiere di Siviglia, production by Filippo Crivelli/Daniela Zedda, at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, a symphonic concert at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and in Firenze at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
In past seasons he conducted Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, production by Denis Krief, Don Giovanni at Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Rossini’s La Cenerentola at Teatro Greco in Lecce, Tosca and Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, La Bohème at Opera Theatre of Tirana. For the opera season of Teatro Sperimentale in Spoleto he conducted Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia directed by Paolo Rossi, Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, production by Henning Brockhaus.
He was invited by the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, the Philharmonische Camerata of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra Toscanini in Parma, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale in Bologna. He also collaborates as a pianist with the Philharmonische Camerata of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
He conducted the world première of Dioniso in Sicilia and Persistenze di memoria by Giovanni Ferrauto, Figlia del fuoco by Marco Taralli, Giufà by Joe Schittino, Istoria di Sant’Agata by Giovanni Sollima.
He was the conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana’s Youth Orchestra where he conducted De Falla’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro with Figli d’Arte Cuticchio at Teatro Politeama Garibaldi in Palermo.
As an opera conductor, he made his debut with A.S.L.I.C.O opera domani conducting Mozart’s Il flauto magico (revived at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman) thereafter Mozart’s La finta semplice. He received the ‘Carlo Maria Giulini’ prize from Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and was invited by Lorin Maazel as a ‘conductor fellow’ at the Castleton Festival in Virginia, USA. Maazel himself indicated him as his deputy for Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Festival he founded and entrusted him with the world première of Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg and Ravel’s L’heure espagnole.
He had previously been assistant conductor in several opera productions at the Staatsoper in Münich and Berlin, where he now lives.
He collaborated with soloists Roberto Cominati, Francesco D’Orazio, James Galway, Giovanni Sollima, Uto Ughi.
A pupil of Piero Bellugi in Firenze, in 2010 he graduated from ‘Scuola dell’Opera Italiana’ in Bologna with Bruno Bartoletti and Nicola Luisotti, then he studied with Jorma Panula in Finland and Lorin Maazel in the USA. Salvatore Percacciolo graduated in piano at Conservatorio ‘A. Corelli’ in Messina, studied composition at Conservatorio ‘A. Scarlatti’ in Palermo, obtained a Master’s degree in ‘Alta Scuola di Direzione d’Orchestra’ at Conservatorio ‘U. Giordano’ in Foggia.
For NAXOS he recorded a CD with music by Baska, Hidas, Krek and Papandopulo for piccolo flute, soloist Francesco Viola, with the Orchestra of National Theatre in Mannheim.
Recently published by Lattes Edizioni the operina I due usignoli by Nicola Campogrande recorded with the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale Bologna and with the choir ‘I piccoli cantori’ from Torino.
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