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Francesco Corti

Conductor

  • Francesco Corti worked real wonders from the pit, sensitively shaping the emotionally charged score...
    Sarah Urwin Jones, The Times
  • The classiest individual performance came from Scottish Opera's music director Francesco Corti, who captured the full flavour of the Puccini orchestra in an invigorating display of freedom and control.
    Andrew Clark, Opera Magazine

  • Francesco Corti studied conducting in Vienna and made his debut in 1986 conducting La Traviata in Jesi. There have followed engagements in some of the leading Italian houses including Turin and Verona as well as in Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the USA and United Kingdom.

    He has held official positions as 1st Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Dusseldorf/Duisburg, conducting Le Nozze di Figaro, Nabucco, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il Trovatore, Maria Stuarda, Turandot, Così fan tutte, La Sonnambula and Andrea Chenier among others, as Generalmusikdirektor at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (where he added Arabella, Lohengrin, Busoni’s Turandot, Don Carlo, Salome, Macbeth and The Bartered Bride to his repertoire) and at the Magdeburg Theatre, also as GMD, conducting Tannhauser, Idomeneo, Flavius Bertaridus (Telemann), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Boris Godunov as well as many symphonic concerts.

    For his US debut he conducted Il barbiere di Siviglia in San Francisco.

    He was also a regular guest conductor in Stuttgart (La Traviata, Il mondo della luna and Simon Boccanegra), Oslo (L’Italiana in Algeri, Madame Butterfly, Andrea Chenier, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Boheme, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte) before being invited to conduct Madame Butterfly for Scottish Opera, following which he was appointed Musical Director of the company. With Scottish Opera he has conducted a new production of Smetana’s The Two Widows for the 2008 Edinburgh Festival, as well as a concert performances of I Puritani in Glasgow and La fanciulla del West at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival, new productions of Manon, Le nozze di Figaro and Intermezzo and revivals of L’elisir d’Amore and La boheme.

    Plans with Scottish Opera include Tosca in addition to the regular concerts he conducts with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera.

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    • Intermezzo: Scottish Opera
      (March / April 2011)

      Strauss’ busy, lavish score, which is marvellously played here under the company’s music director, Francesco Corti.
      The Stage
      Francesco Corti conducted enthusiastically...
      Daily Telegraph
      The music is a wonderful sound scape of rich, passionate, and dissonant notes, and the Scottish Opera orchestra (complete with harmonium) under Francesco Corti tackled this difficult score with aplomb. The intermezzos were particularly engrossing, adding so much to the work and giving the whole a very cinematic feel.
      Bachtrack
      Corti’s interpretation is unfailingly lively and considerate of the singers (no mean achievement).
      Telegraph Magazine

    • La fanciulla del West, Edinburgh International Festival
      (August 2010)

      There was crackling energy and roaring bravado to spare… Biggest applause of the evening went to Scottish Opera’s orchestra, whose fate is currently prey to cuts. The ovation wasn’t just a show of public support: its impassioned playing merited the acclaim.
      The Telegraph

    • La Bohème: Scottish Opera
      (February - June 2010)

      The classiest individual performance came from Scottish Opera's music director Francesco Corti, who captured the full flavour of the Puccini orchestra in an invigorating display of freedom and control. The work's Italian genes were well to the fore - at least in the music.
      Opera Magazine
      The real action, however, was under the stage. What fantastic Puccini conducting from Francesco Corti: supple, pacey, infinitely flexible, and super-emotional. When Mimi made her entrance and the music welled up, I just dissolved. Corti’s timing was phenomenal, moulding and shaping the flow, getting every ounce of juice from the score; and the orchestral playing for the music director was top-drawer stuff and drop-dead gorgeous. Bravo Corti.
      The Herald
      In the pit, music director Francesco Corti draws some lush sounds from the orchestra...
      The Guardian
      ...his conducting is luxurious and sensitive.
      The Scotsman
      And Francesco Corti worked real wonders from the pit, sensitively shaping the emotionally charged score, never overegging, but lingering where he ought and stoking love’s uncontrollable surges with a beauty that transported in spite of the staging.
      The Times
      The conductor, Francesco Corti, captured the full flavour of the Puccini orchestra in an impressive display of freedom and control. The work’s Italian genes were well to the fore – at least in the music.
      Financial Times
      In the hands of conductor Francesco Corti, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera give a terrific rendition of Puccini’s music.
      Glasgow University Guardian
      On the credit side…a magnificently on-form orchestra under Francesco Corti.
      Inverness Courier
      Applause was due, and was given generously, to Scottish Opera’s orchestra, who had responded to conductor Francesco Corti with a performance which was worth the price of admission all on its own, especially in the final act where heartstrings were tugged and withers comprehensively wrung.
      Hi Arts

  • Francesco Corti Opera Repertoire

    BASTIDE
    • Oedipe Roi (1927)
    BELLINI
    • La Sonnambula
    • Norma
    • I puritani
    BUSONI
    • Turandot
    CIMAROSA
    • L'Italiana in Londra
    DONIZETTI
    • Don Pasquale
    • L'Elisir d'Amore
    • La Fille du Regiment
    • Lucia di Lammermoor
    • Roberto Devereux
    • Maria Stuarda
    GIORDANO
    • Andrea Chenier
    HAYDN
    • Il mondo della Luna
    HUMPERDINCK
    • Hansel und Gretel
    LEONCAVALLO
    • I pagliacci
    MASCAGNI
    • Cavalleria Rusticana
    MASSENET
    • Manon
    MOZART
    • Cosi fan tutte
    • Don Giovanni
    • Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail
    • La finta giardiniera
    • La finta semplice
    • Le nozze di Figaro
    • Die Zauberflote
    • Idomeneo
    MUSSORGSKY
    • Boris Godunov
    PUCCINI
    • La Boheme
    • Madame Butterfly
    • La fanciulla del West
    • Turandot
    ROSSINI
    • L'Italiana in Algeri
    • Aureliano in Palmira
    • Il barbiere di Siviglia
    • La Cenerentola
    • Eduardo e Cristina
    • Matilde di Shabran
    SHOSTAKOVICH
    • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
    SMETANA
    • Die Verkaufte Braut
    • The Two Widows
    R.STRAUSS
    • Salome
    TELEMANN
    • Flavius Bertaridus
    VERDI
    • Aida
    • Don Carlo
    • Simon Boccanegra
    • Falstaff
    • I due Foscari
    • Macbeth
    • Nabucco
    • Otello
    • Rigoletto
    • La traviata
    • Il trovatore
    WAGNER
    • Die Feen
    • Lohengrin
    WEBER
    • Der Freischutz

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