Carlo Benedetto Cimento

The Italian conductor Carlo Benedetto Cimento has been First Kapellmeister at the Salzburg Landestheater since the 2023/24 season. In the coming season his engagements there will include new productions of Don Giovanni and Giulio Cesare in Egitto. In recent seasons he has received great acclaim for new productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il viaggio a Reims and Lucio Silla, as well as for the first Austrian production of Salieri’s seldom performed opera Il mondo alla rovescia in spring 2025. In summer 2025 he was a guest at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and at the Gustav Mahler Music Weeks in Toblach.

He made his Italian conducting debut in 2023 at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste with a Verdi gala concert and a production of Orphée aux enfers.

He is also an accomplished concert conductor, and has conducted symphonic works at venues including the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre, the Salzburg Felsenreitschule and the concert hall of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He has conducted orchestras including the Cappella Aquileia, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria and the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

He has a particular passion for working with singers. He has been the Italian coach for singing classes at the University of Music in Würzburg and regularly serves as a juror at the Vincerò World Singing Competition and at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition. From 2021 to 2023 he was a répétiteur and Kapellmeister at the Mainfranken Theatre Würzburg; previously, in 2020, he was a répétiteur at Theater Kiel.

Carlo Benedetto Cimento was born in Bologna, studied organ and conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and graduated with a master’s degree in conducting from the University of Music and Theatre in Munich. He has also participated in masterclasses with renowned conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Daniele Gatti and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

He was nominated for the Austrian Music Theatre Prize for his conducting of Haydn’s L’isola disabitata from the fortepiano at the Festival Teatro Barocco, won the Ö1 Talentbörse and received the 2019 Max Liebhaber Prize from the Heidenheim Opera Festival.