Francesco Lanzillotta

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Francesco Lanzillotta
Born Rome, Italy
Education Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Occupation
Conductor
Composer
Organizations Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini
Website www.francescolanzillotta.com/en/
Francesco Lanzillotta (born 1958) is an Italian conductor and composer. As a
conductor, he is focused on Italian opera, including contemporary works. He has
conducted internationally, such as Verdi's La traviata in Varna, Bulgaria, Nabucco
at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Puccini's La bohème at the Bavarian State Opera, and
Dallapiccola's Ulisse at Oper Frankfurt. He has conducted music by contemporary
Italian composers.

Career
Lanzillotta was born in Rome. He studied there at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia,[1] piano with Velia De Vit, and composition with Luciano Pelosi. He took
master classes with Harold Farberman and George Phelivanian.[2] Lanzillotta is a
regular conductor at Italian opera houses such as La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Regio
in Parma, Teatro Verdi in Triest, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and Teatro Lirico
di Cagliari. He has conducted orchestras including the RAI National Symphony
Orchestra, the Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Orchestra della
Svizzera Italiana and the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence. He is interested in
music of the 20th and 21st centuries,[1][3][4] such as Giorgio Battistelli, Ada
Gentile, Ennio Morricone, Michele Dall'Ongaro [it], Marcello Panni [it] and
Francesco Pennisi [it].[1][2]

In 2010, Lanzillotta became principal guest conductor at the opera house of Varna,
Bulgaria, where he conducted productions of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Verdi's La
traviata, Bizet's Carmen, Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci,
Puccini's La bohème and Tosca.[2] From 2014, He was conductor of the Filarmonica
Arturo Toscanini in Parma for four years.[4] He first conducted at the Bavarian
State Opera in Munich Puccini's La bohème.[1] His first work at the Deutsche Oper
Berlin was Verdi's Nabucco in 2018.[2] In 2020, he conducted a DVD recording of
Alfano's opera Risurrezione, directed by Rosetta Cucchi, with chorus and orchestra
of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Ana Victória Pitts and Anne-Sophie Duprels
in leading roles.[5]

In 2022, he conducted a new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse at Oper Frankfurt,

directed by Tatjana Gürbaca,[3][6] with Iain MacNeal in the title role, Juanita
Lascarro as Penelope and Danylo Matviienko as Antinoos.[3] A reviewer from Neue
Musikzeitung noted that the music was rendered with precision, colourful and
expressive.[6] A reviewer from Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that he was aware of
details, did "not shy away from agglomerations of sound" ("scheut Klangballungen
nicht"), but emphasized the flow of Ulisse's search for identity.[7]