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LUCIANO DI
MARTINO

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CONDUCTOR

"The performance of the Hamburg Ballet as expected was remarkable.
The Orchestra della Fenice was excellently conducted by Luciano Di Martino."

– OPERA & BALLET–

Conductor Luciano Di Martino

ABOUT

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THE MUSIC

Conductor Luciano Di Martino and John Neumeier

"A Way of Life" – FILM 2024

By Kiran West

“…Italian conductor Luciano Di Martino made an excellent debut with the Israeli Opera. His conducting was precise and controlled, with excellent balance achieved between the orchestra and the singers…”

– OPERA NEWS, JEHOASH HIRSHBERG –

REVIEWS

"STUNNING SOUND..."

“Led in lightness by Luciano Di Martino, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, accustomed to large operatic manoeuvres, performs with good will to give some use to this easy music and the ballet company dances with enthusiasm.”

CONCERT CLASSIC

30.10.2023

"This project that imposes to tell without words a legendary life has chosen La Fenice of Venice tone on tone on the notes of Benjamin Britten and Avro Pärt performed by the Orchestra del Teatro conducted by Luciano Di Martino... Long applause to La Fenice for the dance star, the dance company and orchestra..."

OPERATEATRO

08.2.2020

The multifaceted score was performed magnificently by the Opera House Orchestra under the baton of Luciano Di Martino with featured violin soloist Anton Barakhovsky.

DCTHEATRESCENE, WASHINGTON D.C

30.03.2017

"Luciano Di Martino lets the orchestra play Puccini in the way you really would love to hear it. Softly controlled musical passages and highly dramatic rubati come from the orchestra pit..."

OPERNNETZ.DE

25.5.2012

“…Italian conductor Luciano di Martino made an excellent debut with Israeli Opera.

OPERNNETZ.DE

25.05.2012

"Musical tension came from the orchestra pit with the Hamburg Philharmonic under the Conductor Luciano Di Martino. Verdi's music was celebrated full of nuances and vigorous, never too load or hectic..."

DER OPERNFREUND

04.5.2008

As an internationally sought-after guest conductor, he has conducted numerous renowned orchestras such as the “Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice”, the “Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse”, the “Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra” in Washington, the “Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra”, the “Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra”, the “Hamburg Symphony Orchestra”, the “Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion”, the “Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra”, the “Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra”, the “Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra”, the “Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana”, the “Filarmonica Marchigiana”, the “Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra”, the “Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra”.

In concert, opera and ballet performances, the Italian-German conductor Luciano Di Martino is highly regarded for his intensity, spontaneity, precision, sense of expression and distinctive musicality. 

 

Until 1996, he studied conducting at the “University of Music and Drama” in Hamburg under Professor Klauspeter Seibel and at the “Accademia Chigiana” in Siena with Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung and the legendary conducting teacher, Ilya Musin. 

 

Upon completing his training, he initially worked as a freelance accompanist. Simultaneously, he gained experience in early music and historical performance practice with baroque ensembles based in Hamburg. He displayed a particular interest in the music of Handel and Monteverdi.

 

Di Martino began his career in 1996 with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, conducting a concert dedicated to the Swedish composers Franz Berwald, Lars-Erik Larsson and Hugo Alfvén.

 

Di Martino has been a regular guest at the Hamburg State Opera since 2008. He has conducted numerous performances of Verdi’s “La Traviata” and “Luisa Miller”. In the Hanseatic city, he also enjoys a long-standing collaboration with the director of the Hamburg Ballet, the choreographer, John Neumeier. He has conducted numerous ballets – such as “The Nutcracker”, “The Little Mermaid”, “The Glass Menagerie” and “Duse” starring the Internationally acclaimed artist and prima ballerina assoluta Alessandra Ferri. 

 

Di Martino has also had the honour of working with renowned soloists such as Maxim Vengerov, Pepe Romero, and Uto Ughi, as well as star singers such as Anna Netrebko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Josè Cura, Ghena Dimitrova and Kammersängerin Anna Tomowa-Sintow.

 

Other important stage in Di Martino's career were conducting “Attila”, “Aida”, “Don Carlos”, “L’elisir d’amore”, “I Pagliacci”, “La Sonnambula” and Medelsssohn's oratorio “Elijah” at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, “Don Giovanni” and “The Magic Flute” at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, “Lucia di Lammermoor” at the Historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, “Otello” and “Tosca” at the Novosibirsk Opera Theatre, “Eugene Onegin” at the National Opera Bucharest, “Rigoletto” at the National Opera Sofia, Gluck's “Orfeo ed Euridice”, Così fan tutte, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, Nabucco, Manon Lescaut, Turandot, Cavalleria Rusticana, Macbeth and Falstaff at the Opera Open Festival in Plovdiv, “Carmina Burana” and “La Traviata” at the Thessaloniki Megaron Concert Hall and “Madama Butterfly” at the New Israeli Opera.

 

He has had the pleasure of working in many Opera Productions with renowned directors such as Stefano Poda, Mariusz Trelinski and Christian Räth.  At the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse, he first realised a complete audio recording of the ballet “Giselle” and conducted the premiere of the ballet “La Sylphide” in collaboration with the choreographer and expert on the ballets of August Bournonville, Dinna Bjørn. 

 

Following his initial positions as General Music Director of the State Opera in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, he was appointed permanent conductor of the Classic FM Radio Orchestra in Sofia. He is currently “Conductor and Artistic Director” of the Bulgarian State Opera and the Philharmonic Orchestra in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. There, he enjoys a significant degree of innovative influence on the musical life of the European Capital of Culture.

 

In the field of contemporary music, Di Martino has performed works by Lera Auerbach, Alexander Tekeliev, Christos Samaras, Philipp Glass, Ned Rorem and Arvo Pärt.

LATEST NEWS

DVD FILMING OF

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

In cooperation with ARTE Concert, Hamburg Ballet and the Symphoniker Hamburg

The "Glass Menagerie" is a play of memories, said Tennessee Williams, the author of the drama. 75 years after its premiere, John Neumeier brings the work to the stage as a ballet with music by Charles Ives, Philip Glass and Ned Rorem. Alina Cojocaru and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier are dancing. The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra plays under Luciano Di Martino.

Ballerina Alina Cojocaru in The Glass Menagerie

CONTACT

For Germany and various other countries:

Silvana Sintow

Classicalia International
Promotions & Management

+ 49-89- 44 21 89 00

Email: sintow@classicalia-international.com
www.classicalia-international.com

For Italy and various other countries:

PBMusic

Dr. Priscilla Baglioni

+ 39-06-941 61 83

Email: info@pbmusic.it

priscillabaglionipbmusic@gmail.com

priscilla.baglioni@gmail.com

For Hungary and various other countries

World Entertainment Company

Luca Ceretta
+36 30 674 9980
Email: luca.ceretta@wechungary.com
www.wechungary.com 

"The music is highly enjoyable, and the orchestra, conducted by Luciano Di Martino, plays admirably throughout the evening, accompanying and enveloping the dancers and providing all the lyricism required to captivate the audience at key moments."

– GRAND FÉNÉTRA OF TOULOUSE

REPERTOIRE

Symphonic

Albeniz – Concierto Fantastico for Piano and Orch. no.1, op.78, Suite Iberia for Orchestra

Alfven – Midsommarvaka Rhapsody, Uppsala Rhapsody

Barber – Violin Concerto op.14

Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite

Beethoven – Complete Symphonies, Complete Piano Concerti, Choral Fantasy op. 80

Berlioz – Symphony Fantastique, Carnaval Romain op. 9

Berwald – Symphony no.4

Brahms – Complete Symphonies, Violin Concerto

Britten – War Requiem, Two Portraits for String Orchestra (1930), Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, op. 10, Sinfonia da Requiem op. 20

Casella – Paganiniana

Chopin – Piano Concerto no.1 op.11, no. 2 op.21

Debussy – La Mer, Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra

De Falla – El Amor Brujo, The Three Cornered Hat Suite no. 2 

Dvorak – Symphonies no. 3, 7, 8, 9, Violoncello Concerto op.104

Gershwin – An American in Paris

Glinka – Spanish Overture no. 2, Ruslan and Ludmila Overture

Grieg – Peer Gynt Suites no. 1, 2, Piano Concerto

Haydn – Symphonies no. 34, 44, 84, 91, 93, 95, 104, Horn Concerto no.2

Hindemith – Kammermusik op.24 no.1

Ives – Central Park in the Dark (1906), The Unanswered Question (1908)

Lalo – Symphonie Espagnole

Liszt  – Hungarian Rhapsodies no. 1, 2, 4, Totentanz, Pianoconc. no. 1, 2

Mahler – Symphonies no. 1, 3, 4, 5

Mendelssohn – Symphonies no. 3, 4, Violin Concerto op.64

Mozart – Symphonies no. 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, Pianoconcertos KV 466, KV 467, KV 491, KV 414, Violin Concertos KV 216, KV 218, KV 219

Mussorgsky/Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition

Paganini – Concerto no.1 for Violin and Orchestra op.6

Pärt – Fratres For string orchestra and percussion (1991), Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1980)

Prokofieff – Symphonie Classique op. 25

Rachmaninoff – Symphony no.2, Romeo and Juliet Suites no. 1, 2, Piano Concerto no.2

Ravel – Alborada del gracioso, Rapsodie Espagnole, Piano Concerto for the left hand

Respighi – Pini di Roma, Fontane di Roma, Trittico Botticelliano

Rimskji-Korsakov  – Sheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol

Saint-Saens – Cello Concerto op.33 no.1, Rhapsodie for Piano and Orchestra „Africa“

Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy op. 25, Zigeunerweisen op. 20, Capriccio Basque op. 24

Schubert – Symphonies no. 5, 8, 9

Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54, Symphonies no. 3, 4

Shostakovich – Symphonies no.1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Cello Concerto no. 1 op. 107 

Sibelius – Symphony no. 2

Strauss R. – Don Juan, Burleske for Piano and Orchestra, Rosenkavalier-Suite, Vier letzte Lieder

Stravinsky – Le Sacre du Printemps, The Firebird, Jeu de Cartes, Concerto en Re

Tschaikovsky – Complete Symphonies, Piano Concerto no.1

Ballet

Adam – Giselle

Auerbach – The Little Mermaid (J. Neumeier, Hamburg Version 2007)

Britten, Pärt  – Duse  (J. Neumeier)

Ives, Glass, Rorem – The Glass Menagerie (J. Neumeier)

Løvenskiold - La Sylphide

Minkus – Don Quihotte

Tchaikovsky – The Swan Lake, The Nutcracker

Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet   

Stravinsky – Le Sacre du Printemps

Choral

Brahms – Ein Deutsches Requiem

Cherubini – Requiem for Mixed Choir in c-minor

Janacek – Missa Glagolskaja

Mendelssohn – Elijah op.70

Mozart – Requiem

Orff – Carmina Burana

Rossini – Stabat Mater

Verdi – Messa da Requiem

Opera

Bellini – La Sonnambula, Norma

Bizet – Carmen

Donizetti – L’Elisir d’Amore, Lucia di Lammermoor

Giordano – Andrea Chenier

Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice

Haendel – Tamerlano

Lehar – Die Lustige Witwe, Das Land des Laechelns

Leoncavallo – I Pagliacci

Mascagni – Cavalleria Rusticana

Millöcker – Der Bettelstudent

Monteverdi – Il ballo delle Ingrate, L’Incoronazione di Poppea

Mozart – Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte, La Clemenza di Tito

Puccini – Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Fanciulla del West, Il Trittico, Turandot

Rossini – Il Signor Bruschino, La Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Strauss – Salome

Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin

Verdi – Nabucco, Attila, Macbeth, Luisa Miller, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Don Carlos, Aida, Otello, Falstaff

Wagner – Der Fliegende Hollaender, Tannhaeuser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung

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