Antonello Manacorda
Conductor
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Antonello Manacorda, who was born in Italy, took up the posts of Chief Conductor of the Kammerakademie Potsdam (Echo prize »Orchestra of the Year 2015«) in 2010 and the Het Gelders Orkest in Arnheim in 2011. Now he's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut in 2017 with Don Giovanni and returned for Tobias Kratzer's new take on Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, for this new Madama Butterfly. He recently worked with Tobias Kratzer on Lucio Silla at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, where he has also conducted The Cunning Little Vixen. Other recent engagements have included Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte and Der Freischütz at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Berlioz’ Béatrice et Bénédict in Glyndebourne and Rossini's Otello and Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Theater an der Wien. He enjoys a special relationship with the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; where he has led Mozart's Da Ponte operas and Die Zauberflöte. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in September 2021 with Le nozze di Figaro where he also conducted Neuenfels' Die Entführung aus dem Serail. He makes his debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin in late 2022 with Jenůfa. Other plans include Le nozze di Figaro at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, Zauberflöte at the Opéra National in Paris and Freischütz at the Semperoper in Dresden. He also enjoys a busy concert career, working with orchestras including the Deutsche Symphony Orchestras, hr- (Hessen Radio) and SWR (radio) Sinfonieorchester, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Camerata Salzburg, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Dresden Philharmonic. His very successful recordings of Schubert symphonies with the Kammerakademie Potsdam was followed by a cycle of syphonic works by Mendelssohn and Mozart's last three symphonies (all for Sony).