“An excellent guidance to orchestras thanks to the combination between his personal enthusiasm, his trustworthy precision and his clear musical commitment.”

Gustavo Dudamel

“Stabat Mater with Cadario is a great Rossini.”

La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno

“It’s great to be together on the stage. So prepared and so musical!”

Katia & Marielle Labèque

“Alessandro Cadario’s conducting is perfect.”

L' Avvenire

“It was a great pleasure to make music together and I love his energy.”

Gautier Capuçon

“One of the most successful young Italian conductors. Very clear gesture combined with musical intentions that become interpretation.”

Le Salon Musical

“One of the most interesting conductor of the new generation.”

Il Giornale

“He conducts the opera with exemplary clarity, wide and always soft articulations, a beautiful sense of theatrical rhythm: taking care to support the singers.”

Conessi all'opera

“Alessandro Cadario conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio di Torino with emotional participation and precision: he excellently conducts the many singers putting every piece in its place.”

Il giornale della musica

“On the podium Alessandro Cadario conducted with authority, doing nothing just to appear and always seeking the compactness of the sound and the fluidity of the phrasing.”

Rivista Musica

“He has a perfect conducting in the choice of tempos, sober and respectful of the Donizetti tradition”

Opera Libera

“The excellent Alessandro Cadario governed everything with a firm hand and scrupulous mastery”

Il corriere musicale

“Alessandro Cadario’s concertation is convincing: the articulation is clear and controlled, the softness is not lacking in spirit, avoiding external frenzies in favor of a beautiful dynamic balance.”

Ape Musicale

“He conducts with mastery and brilliance, his conducting is agile, deeply dense in terms of dynamic and agogic refinements.”

OperaClick

“In the pit Alessandro Cadario does not show any disorientation in front of two such different titles and conducts the Carlo Felice Orchestra with profound sense of the style.”

Ape Musicale

“Alessandro Cadario supports them in an excellent way from the podium: from time to time caressing and snappy in Pergolesi, vibrant and incisive in Bernstein.”

Connessi all'opera

Biography

Alessandro Cadario since 2016 holds the position of Principal Guest Conductor of I Pomeriggi Musicali – one of the oldest Italian symphonic orchestras, based in Milan. Widely appreciated as a refined and expressive conductor, Cadario brings a highly charismatic, profound and determined leading in his musical direction. Eclectic musician, his interpretations of sympohonic and operatic repertoire is always attent to the performance practice of the different styles.

Over the course of his career, he conducted renowned orchestras such as Mariinsky Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, Concerto Budapest, Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice, Sofia Festival Orchestra, ORT, I Cameristi della Scala.

He gained public recognition in 2015 by conducting Henze’s “Pollicino” at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and for the highly acclaimed interpretation of Rossini’s Stabat Mater (“With Cadario, Rossini is Great” La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno).

In 2015 he also debuted at Teatro alla Scala di Milano, during the Festival delle orchestre internazionali.

In 2016 Alessandro Cadario also conducted his Asian orchestra debut with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong in Mozart’s “Great Mass in C minor K.427” and he was invited at the International Festival MITO SettembreMusica and at Venice’s Biennale Musica, conducting the world première of two operas.

For the 2016-17 season Cadario returned to Società del Quartetto di Milano, conducting Tchaikovsky’s “5th symphony”.

In 2017 Alessandro Cadario was chosen by the Italian Senate to conduct the Christmas Concert, broadcast live on the National Italian Television RAI 1.

In 2018 he debuted at Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg and Teatro Regio di Torino conducting Verdi’s Quattro pezzi sacri.

In 2019 he leaded Norma at the Croatian National Theatre of Rijeka, La Cenerentola and The Nutcracker at Teatro Massimo of Palermo. He has also conducted the Requiem by Domenico Cimarosa for the opening season concert of Arena di Verona Foundation.

During his carreer he collaborated with soloists such as Katia and Marielle Labèque, Gautier Capuçon, Mario Brunello, Giovanni Sollima, Alessandro Carbonare, Francesca Dego, Giuseppe Gibboni, Olga Peretyatko, Vittorio Grigolo, Francesco Meli.

Along with the classic repertoire, Alessandro Cadario is interested in Contemporary Music, which he interprets brilliantly, with great commitment, being both a conductor and a composer. His works have been premièred at New York’s Lincoln Center, Staatstheater Darmstadt and Taipei National Concert Hall, to name a few.

He conducted many world premieres of composers like Ivan Fedele, Carlo Galante and Marco Tutino.
In the 2020-2021 season he made his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival conducting Il Viaggio a Reims, he conducted at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa Elisir d’amore and a new production of La Serva Padrona / Trouble in Tahiti.
In the current season he made his debut at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, at the 48° Festival della Valle d’Itria and he got reinvitations at Teatro Regio di Torino and Teatro Massimo di Palermo.
Among the engagements for the upcoming seasons is scheduled the debut at Teatro del Giglio di Lucca with Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the return at Royal Opera House of Muscat, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Fondazione Arena di Verona and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with the world premiere of Jeanne Dark by Fabio Vacchi.

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Agenda

Palazzo Ducale_Martina Franca (IT)

Wednesday 3 August 2022, h 8.00 pm
Friday 5 August 2022, h 8.00 pm

48° Festival della Valle d’Itria

Alessandro Cadario, Conductor
Tommaso Franchin, Director

Nicola Campogrande, Opera Italiana (World Premiére)

Montenegrin Music Center_Podgorica (MNE)

Friday 30 September 2022, h 8.00 pm

Symphonic Season 22/23

Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra
Milena Simović, Viola
Alessandro Cadario, Conductor

G. Martucci, Notturno for orchestra

P. Hindemith, Kammermusik no. 5

W. A. Mozart, Symphony n°41 “Jupiter”

Teatro del Giglio_Lucca (IT)

Friday 14 October 2022, h 8.30 pm
Sunday 16 October 2022, h 4.00 pm

Opera Season 22/23

W. A. Mozart, Don Giovanni

Dramma giocoso in due atti K 527 di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto di Lorenzo Da Ponte
Publisher Herausgeber Alkor/Bärenreiter, Kassel

Coro e Orchestra Archè
Alessandro Cadario, Conductor
Cristina Pezzoli, Director
Giacomo Andrico, Set and costumes
Valerio Alfieri, Light designer
Marco Bargagna, Chorus master

Don Giovanni, Daniele Antonangeli
Il Commendatore, Paolo Pecchioli
Donna Anna, Sonia Ciani
Don Ottavio, Massimo Frigato
Donna Elvira, Francesca Cuccuzza
Leporello, Nicola Ziccardi
Masetto, Italo Proferisce
Zerlina, Federica Livi

Corpo di Ballo Nuovo BallettO di ToscanA

Allestimento del Teatro di Pisa
Coproduzione Teatro di Pisa, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Fondazione Stiftung Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Teatro Goldoni di Livorno

Teatro Goldoni_Livorno (IT)

Friday 21 October 2022, h 8.30 pm
Sunday 23 October 2022, h 4.00 pm

Opera Season 22/23

W. A. Mozart, Don Giovanni

Dramma giocoso in due atti K 527 di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto di Lorenzo Da Ponte
Publisher Herausgeber Alkor/Bärenreiter, Kassel

Corpo di Ballo Nuovo BallettO di ToscanA

Allestimento del Teatro di Pisa
Coproduzione Teatro di Pisa, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Fondazione Stiftung Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Teatro Goldoni di Livorno

Teatro Dal Verme_Milano (IT)

Thursday 3 November 2022, h 8.00 pm
Saturday 5 November 2022, h 5.00 pm

78th Symphonic Season Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali

Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali
Roman Simović , Violin
Alessandro Cadario, Conductor

S. Barber, Adagio for strings
S. Barber, Concerto for violin and orchestra
M. De Falla, El amor brujo (Suite)
M. De Falla, El sombrero de tres picos (Suite No. 1)

Teatro Massimo_ Palermo (IT)

Saturday 12 November 2022, h 8.00 pm

Symphonic season 2022

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Massimo
Desirée Rancatore, Soprano
Raffaella Lupinacci, Mezzosoprano
Giulio Pelligra, Tenor
Roberto Scandiuzzi, Bass
Ciro Visco, Chorus Master
Alessandro Cadario, Conductor

Requiem per le vittime della mafia

Text by Vincenzo Consolo
Music by Lorenzo Ferrero, Carlo Galante, Paolo Arcà, Matteo D’Amico, Giovanni Sollima, Marco Betta, Marco Tutino