Considered among the most respected conductors of his generation, Marco Guidarini has performed over seventy operatic titles including the major Mozart and Bel canto operas, all the main Verdi’s and Puccini’s masterpieces up to Berg's Wozzeck, as well as more than two hundred symphonic works. He combines a highly prestigious musical education with humanistic and linguistic studies.

 

Profoundly influenced by the proximity of Claudio Abbado and Carlo Maria Giulini, he makes his conducting debut as assistant of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

 

His artistic career quicly leads him to conduct in the major theaters of the world: from the Metropolitan in New York (Rigoletto) to La Scala in Milan (Donizetti’s Le Convenienze teatrali) from the Sydney Opera (Tosca, The Magic Flute, Cosi fan tutte) to the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre (Turandot) and at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires (Falstaff).

 

From 2001 to 2009 he holds the position of Music Director of the Orchestre Philarmonique de Nice, togheter with he created symphonic cycles from Beethoven to Brahms and Mahler, passionately dedicating himself to the French repertoire and making prestigious tours in Italy, Germany and Japan. In Nice he also the creator and founder of the Ensemble Apostrophe, conceived to develop a new approach to the modern music languages, and directs for several years the Sacred Music Festival.

 

Since ten years Artistic Director in Paris of the Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini, receives the Charles Crox award, Orphée d'or, for his recording of Puccini's opera Le Villi with the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France.

For his artistic work, the French Ministry of Culture appoints him Chevalier des arts et des Lettres, and the Government of the Italian Republic awards him the honor of Knight of the Order of the Star for cultural merits.

In 2018 he is awarded as well of the title of Paul Harris Fellow as an international ambassador of the arts and humanitarian commitment through music.

 

In his multi-year activity, his attention to the new generations of artists is of great importance, as well as his didactic commitment in collaboration with the major international academies, from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris and the Academia Placido Domingo in Valencia to the Accademia della Scala.

 

He holds to his credit a large number of recordings, both in the symphonic and lyric repertoire for important international labels such as Naxos and Deutsche Grammophone. He writes about music and literature: his very recent publication of the essay Operasofia follows the success obtained by his Mozart's collection of small novels Gulda in viaggio verso Praga, also translated into Russian.

 

Marco Guidarini is currently Music Director of the Poznan Opera House in Poland.