Antonino Fogliani
Antonino Fogliani during Festival Radio France of Montpellier in 2011
Background information
Born	(1976-06-29)29 June 1976 (age 48) Messina
Occupation	Italian conductor

Antonino Fogliani (born inMessina, June 29, 1976) is an Italianconductor.

Fogliani studied composition at the Conservatorio "G. B. Martini" inBologna withFrancesco Carluccio ^[it] and graduated with honors in orchestral conducting at theMilan Conservatory, underVittorio Parisi. He then furthered his musical training at theAccademia Musicale Chigiana inSiena where he studied conducting withGianluigi Gelmetti and composition withFranco Donatoni andEnnio Morricone.^[1]

Fogliani's debut at theRossini Opera Festival inPesaro in 2001 withIl viaggio a Reims^[2] was the beginning of an international career. He went on to conduct productions such asGaetano Donizetti'sUgo conte di Parigi^[3] andMaria Stuarda atLa Scala in Milan,Pietro Mascagni'sAmica and Rossini'sMosè in Egitto at the Rome Opera,Lucia di Lammermoor in St. Gallen,Verdi'sOberto conte di San Bonifacio in the Verona Philharmonic Theatre,Il barbiere di Siviglia atLa Fenice in Venice, andBellini'sLa sonnambula at theTeatro Calderón (Valladolid). In 2005, at theTeatro San Carlo in Naples, he conductedPaisiello'sIl Socrate immaginario ^[] in the new version byRoberto De Simone; the work was reprised in the 2006/07 season atLa Scala in Milan.^[4]

Fogliani made his American debut in 2011 conductingLucia di Lammermoor at theHouston Grand Opera.^[5] In 2012, he debutedAida at theTeatro Regio in Parma, adding to the Verdi repertoire which he had previously conducted—Rigoletto,Giovanna d'Arco,La battaglia di Legnano,La traviata,I masnadieri, andI Lombardi alla prima crociata.

He has conducted and recorded several titles in theRossini repertoire (Otello,Il signor Bruschino,La scala di seta,L'occasione fa il ladro,Edipo Coloneo,Ciro in Babilonia,La Cenerentola,Il turco in Italia,Semiramide,Adina) as well as some of the first performances in modern times ofMercadante'sDon Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamaccio andI briganti andVaccaj'sLa sposa di Messina^[6] at theRossini in Wildbad festival, where he has been the Music Director since 2011. For the 2011 festival, he orchestrated the seven numbers composed byGiovanni Tadolini in 1833 for Rossini'sStabat Mater (the orchestral version of which was lost) and conducted them in their first performance at Rossini in Wildbad.^[7]

In the symphonic repertoire, he has performed with many orchestras including the National Orchestra of Santa Cecilia and the Rome Opera, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Orchestra of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Orchestra Sinfonica Toscanini Foundation of Parma, the Regional Orchestra Tuscany in Florence, the Philharmonic Orchestra of theTeatro Massimo Bellini of Catania, the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala,I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Spanish orchestras of La Coruna, Tenerife and Castilla y Leon, the Orchestra of the Teatro Municipal in Santiago (Chile), theSydney Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre de Bretagne and the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen.

Fogliani has recorded forNaxos,Dynamic,Arthaus Musik, andBongiovanni.

Since 2021 Fogliani has taught orchestral conducting at the ConservatoryA. Scarlatti inPalermo.^[8] He lives inLugano.

• Vincenzo Bellini:Beatrice di Tenda,Bianca e Fernando,I Capuleti e i Montecchi,Norma,La Sonnambula,Il Pirata
• Georges Bizet:Carmen
• Francesco Cilea:Adriana Lecouvreur
• Domenico Cimarosa:Il marito disperato
• Gaetano Donizetti:Anna Bolena, Don Pasquale, Il diluvio universale, L'elisir d'amore, La Fille du régiment, Lucia di Lammermoor, Maria di Rohan, Maria Stuarda, Rita, Roberto Devereux, Ugo conte di Parigi
• Charles Gounod:Faust
• Franz Lehàr:La vedova allegra, Il paese del sorriso
• Ruggero Leoncavallo:I Pagliacci
• Pietro Mascagni:Amica, Cavalleria rusticana, L'amico Fritz
• Jules Massenet:Don Quichotte
• Saverio Mercadante:Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamaccio, I Briganti
• Francesco Morlacchi: Tebaldo e Isolina
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Die Zauberflöte
• Giovanni Paisiello:Socrate immaginario
• Stefano Pavesi:Il trionfo delle belle
• Francis Poulenc:La Voix Humaine, Dialogues des Carmélite
• Giacomo Puccini:Gianni Schicchi, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, La fanciulla del West, Turandot
• Gioachino Rossini:Adina, Bianca e Falliero, Il signor Bruschino, La Cenerentola, Il viaggio a Reims, Le comte Ory, Ciro in Babilonia, Il turco in Italia, La cambiale di matrimonio, L’occasione fa il ladro, L'inganno felice, Maometto secondo, Mosè in Egitto, La scala di seta, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, Edipo Coloneo, L’italiana in Algeri, Sigismondo, Semiramide, Guillaume Tell, Stabat Mater, Petite messe solennelle
• Camille Saint-Saëns:Samson et Dalila
• Richard Strauss:Ariadne auf Naxos
• Nicola Vaccaj:La sposa di Messina
• Giuseppe Verdi:Aida, Attila, Un ballo in maschera, Don Carlo, Giovanna d'Arco, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, I Masnadieri, Il trovatore, Macbeth, Nabucco, La battaglia di Legnano, La Traviata, Oberto conte di San Bonifacio, Otello, Rigoletto
• Richard Wagner:Der fliegende Holländer

• Various authors, Gaetano Donizetti. Maria Stuarda / Antonino Fogliani. Teatro alla Scala. Mondadori Electa, 2009.^[9]ISBN 88-37-06515-9.

• G. Donizetti,Ugo conte di Parigi, CD Dynamic (2004)
• G. Rossini,Ciro in Babilonia, CD Naxos (2005)
• D. Cimarosa,Il marito disperato, CD Bongiovanni (2006)
• G. Rossini,Mosè in Egitto, CD Naxos (2007)
• G. Donizetti,Maria Stuarda, CD/DVD Musicom/Rai Trade (2008))
• G. Rossini,Otello, CD Naxos (2010)
• G. Donizetti,Lucia di Lammermoor, CD Naxos (2011)
• N. Vaccaj,La sposa di Messina, CD Naxos (2012)
• S. Mercadante,Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamaccio, CD Naxos (2012)
• G. Rossini,L'occasione fa il ladro, CD Naxos (2012)
• G. Rossini,Semiramide, CD Naxos (2013)
• BEL CANTO BULLY - The musical legacy of the legendary opera impresario Domenico Barbaja, CD Naxos (2013)
• G. Verdi,Aida, CD C Major (2014)
• S. Mercadante,I Briganti, CD Naxos (2014)
• G. Rossini,Guillaume Tell, CD Naxos (2015)
• G. Rossini,Il viaggio a Reims, CD Naxos (2016)
• G. Rossini,Stabat Mater, CD Naxos (2016)
• G. Rossini,Sigismondo, CD Naxos (2017)
• V. Bellini,Bianca e Gernando, CD Naxos (2017)
• G. Rossini,Bianca e Falliero, CD Naxos (2017)
• G. Rossini,Maometto II, CD Naxos (2018)
• G. Rossini,Il barbiere di Siviglia, CD Dynamic (2020)
• F. Morlacchi,Tebaldo e Isolina, CD Naxos (2020)
• M. Taralli,Cantus Bononiæ Missa Sancti Petronii, CD Tactus (2022)
• G. Rossini,Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra, CD Naxos (2024)
• G. Rossini,Ermione, CD Naxos (2024)
• SAIMIR - Saimir Pirgu, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Antonino Fogliani - OPUS ARTE (2024)

• G. Donizetti,Lucia di Lammermoor, DVD Dynamic (2006)
• G. Donizetti,Maria Stuarda, DVD ARTHAUS MUSIK (2009)
• G. Rossini,Il barbiere di Siviglia, DVD Dynamic (2009)
• G. Verdi,Aida, DVD/Blu-ray UNITEL (2012)
• G. Rossini,Guillaume Tell, DVD Bongiovanni (2015)
• G. Rossini,L'inganno felice, DVD Dynamic (2016)
• Orphea in love, DVD/Blu-ray 374 Media (2023)

• Antonino Fogliani Official Website
• Antonino Fogliani on iTunes
• Biography on Naxos Classical Music

• 1976 births
• Musicians from Messina
• Musicians from Bologna
• Italian male conductors (music)
• Living people
• 21st-century Italian conductors (music)
• 21st-century Italian male musicians
• Milan Conservatory alumni
• Accademia Musicale Chigiana alumni

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