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. In 2015 he conducted the Orchestra of La Scala at the opening concert in the Piazza del Duomo of the Expo Milan.
His engagements in recent seasons have included La traviata, Tosca and Aida in Munich, Tosca, L’elisir d’amore, Rigoletto, Turandot, La bohème and Don Pasquale in Vienna, La rondine and Verdi’s Requiem in Zurich, Turandot in Paris, Tosca in London, Fedora and Andrea Chénier in Milan, Macbeth in Naples, Rigoletto and Aida at the Arena di Verona and Turandot, Fedora, La traviata and La bohème at the Met.
At the Salzburg Festival Marco Armiliato has conducted Tosca, along with concert performances of Manon Lescaut, Lucrezia Borgia, Adriana Lecouvreur and I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
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 forthcoming seasons include Aida in Verona, Andrea Chénier (in concert), Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut in Zurich, Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Tosca at the Met, La bohème in Monte Carlo, Don Pasquale (in concert) in Prague, Tosca in Dresden, Tosca, Il trovatore, Carmen and Il barbiere di Siviglia in Vienna and Adriana Lecouvreur in Bilbao.
