Daniele Rustioni

Since 2017 Daniele Rustioni has been music director of the Opéra de Lyon, where he conducts two new productions each season; since 2019 he has also been chief conductor of the Ulster Orchestra. From 2014 to 2020 he was principal conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana, of which he is now artistic director. Since September 2021 he has been principal guest conductor at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
He has conducted various well-known orchestras, among them the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Filarmonica della Scala, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. In January 2022 he made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
As an opera conductor Daniele Rustioni has appeared at La Scala, Milan, the Zurich Opera and the Paris Opéra, among others. He has enjoyed a close working relationship with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, since his debut there in 2011, and also makes regular guest appearances at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. In 2017 he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he returned in 2021/22 for Rigoletto and Le nozze di Figaro. In 2023 he will return to the Met to conduct Verdi’s Falstaff.
Since he conducted Madama Butterfly at the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theatre in 2014, Daniele Rustioni has also appeared regularly in Japan, including in concerts with the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In 2018 he conducted concerts with the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
His extensive discography includes recordings of Bellini’s Adelson e Salvini with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Opera Rara), Wolf-Ferrari’s Violin Concerto with Francesca Dego and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) and works by Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Goffredo Petrassi and Alfredo Casella with the Orchestra della Toscana (Sony Classical).