Marco Armiliato was born in Genoa, and is one of today’s most sought-after conductors. Since 1995 when he made his debuts at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with Il barbiere di Siviglia and at the Vienna State Opera with Andrea Chénier – and thanks in part to his work with the ‘Three Tenors’ – he has appeared at the world’s most renowned opera houses, among them the Metropolitan Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, the Zurich Opera House, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and La Scala, Milan. In 2016 he made his Salzburg Festival debut. He was music director of the 2022 Arena di Verona festival.
Marco Armiliato has long-term associations with numerous North American opera houses, above all the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where since his debut in 1998 he has conducted around 500 performances, including of La sonnambula, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Fille du régiment, Il trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Ernani, Stiffelio, La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, La rondine, Andrea Chénier, Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac, Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini and Wolf-Ferrari’s Sly. At the Vienna State Opera, where he was named an honorary member in 2019, he has conducted more than 300 performances to date.
His engagements in recent seasons have included Tosca, Rigoletto, La traviata, Turandot and La bohème in Munich; La traviata, Andrea Chénier and Tosca in Vienna; La Fille du régiment, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Otello in Paris; La fanciulla del West and La traviata in Zurich; La rondine and Tosca in London and Fedora and Andrea Chénier in Milan. He also conducted the Orchestra of La Scala at the opening concert in the Piazza del Duomo of the Expo Milan in 2015.
At the Salzburg Festival Marco Armiliato has conducted Tosca, along with concert performances of Manon Lescaut, Lucrezia Borgia and Adriana Lecouvreur.
His extensive discography includes recordings with leading singers such as Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Rolando Villazón and Marina Rebeka. His album with Renée Fleming Verismo (2009) won a Grammy Award, and his CD Romantic Arias (2008) with Jonas Kaufmann was awarded a Diapason d’Or.
His plans for the forthcoming seasons include La rondine and Verdi’s Requiem in Zurich, La bohème, Don Pasquale and Simon Boccanegra in Vienna, Macbeth in Naples, Aida in Munich, Rigoletto and Aida at the Arena di Verona and La bohème and Turandot at the Met.
