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Michele Mariotti, born in 1979 inUrbino, nearPesaro, is an Italian conductor, thedirettore musicale since 2014 ofTeatro Comunale di Bologna. A graduate in composition of Pesaro'sConservatorio Rossini, where he also studied orchestral conducting, he made his professional opera debut withIl barbiere di Siviglia inSalerno on 12 October 2005. As of April 2017, his repertory included nineRossini and eightVerdi operas, an extraordinary achievement, as well as symphonies ofBeethoven,Bruckner andSchubert, theRossini Stabat mater, theMozart Requiem and theVerdi Requiem.
Between 2006 and 2008, following the Rossini opera in Salerno, Mariotti conducted opera inFirenze (Zaninelli’sSnow White in its Italian premiere); inFano (Gianni Schicchi); at theWexford Festival (Donizetti's rareDon Gregorio);[1] in Bologna;[2] at theTeatro Comunale di Ferrara (L'italiana in Algeri); at theTeatro Regio di Torino; inLima (Rigoletto with Peruvian tenorJuan Diego Flórez); at the Teatro Principal de Mahón onMenorca (I puritani); at theTeatro Municipale (Valli) in Reggio Emilia (Nabucco for the 2008 Festival Verdi); and inLiège. He also gave concerts with various orchestras in Italy and abroad during this launch period.
The success of a November 2007 filmed run ofSimon Boccanegra at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, opening the season there, led to Mariotti's appointment as the theatre'sdirettore principale, to start the next year, a title he would hold until his promotion in 2014. He replacedDaniele Gatti and effectively embarked upon a major career.
Productions in Bologna conducted by Mariotti in his capacities asdirettore principale and thendirettore musicale have been:I puritani[3] with Flórez andLa gazza ladra in 2009;Idomeneo with Francesco Meli,Carmen andLa traviata (2010);La Cenerentola with Laura Polverelli, Ferrero'sRisorgimento! and Dallapiccola'sIl prigioniero (2011);Le nozze di Figaro (2012);Norma with Mariella Devia andNabucco (2013);Così fan tutte and,Michael Spyres and Carlos Álvarez,Guillaume Tell in 2014;Die Zauberflöte, the conductor's first German-language project, and, with Gregory Kunde,Un ballo in maschera (2015);Attila with Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, filmed by RAI TV, andWerther with Flórez (2016); and in 2017La voix humaine with Anna Caterina Antonacci andCavalleria rusticana.
Mariotti's duties in Bologna include regular subscription concerts with the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, in its home theatre and at the Teatro Auditorium Manzoni, the base ofOrchestra Mozart. Beethoven's symphonies have featured prominently in these concerts.
For thirty years, until early 2017, the opera company in Bologna anchored theRossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Accordingly, Mariotti participated in his home town's most visible summer event. Among his projects for the ROF with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna were three filmed operas: a 2010Sigismondo,[4] a 2012Matilde di Shabran[5] and a 2013Guillaume Tell,[6] the first two featuring his future wife,Olga Peretyatko, the latter two starring Flórez. He also conducted the Bologna forces in the Adriatic resort in Rossini'sStabat mater.
The conductor has developed a bond with theMünchner Symphoniker, guest-conducting the German ensemble in 2013, 2015[7] and 2017[8] in works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Bruckner, among others. In the same city, in 2017, he debuted atBavarian State Opera withSemiramide[9][10][11] starringJoyce DiDonato.
Mariotti made his U.S. debut on 12 September 2009, conductingIl barbiere di Siviglia atWashington National Opera.[12] Two months later he performed the same opera in a different production and with a different cast (including Flórez and DiDonato) atLos Angeles Opera.[13] In 2012 he ledCarmen at theMetropolitan Opera and he has since returned to conduct four other productions with that company,[14] making DVDs ofRigoletto for Deutsche Grammophon[15] andLa donna del lago for Erato.[16] He debuted with theOregon Symphony Orchestra in Portland[17][18] the same year (2012) and performed Rossini atLyric Opera of Chicago two years later.[19][20]
During the Bologna company's September 2011 tour to Japan, Mariotti led performances ofCarmen, starring Nino Surguladze, andI puritani, with Desirée Rancatore, Celso Albelo,Luca Salsi and Nicola Ulivieri, atTokyo Bunka Kaikan, as well as events outside the capital.
Mariotti conductedDon Pasquale at theTeatro Regio di Torino in 2009,Il barbiere di Siviglia at theTeatro alla Scala in Milan in 2010, and, for his first performances in Spain, in 2011,L’italiana in Algeri at Bilbao's Palacio Euskalduna. Elsewhere in Europe, he has led opera at theTeatro di San Carlo in Naples, theTeatro Alighieri in Ravenna, theTeatro Massimo in Palermo, theTeatro Comunale in Florence, theTeatro Verdi in Busseto (Il trovatore in concert in 2011), and at theSferisterio di Macerata. In 2013 he conductedLa donna del lago at theRoyal Opera House in London[21][22][23][24] andI puritani at theOpéra Bastille in Paris.[25][26][27][28]
In the area of symphonic music, he has guest-conducted theLeipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, theOrchestre National de France, theOrchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin, and the house orchestra of theTeatro Real in Madrid. He has also led concerts at theThéâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and theFestival de Radio France in Montpellier.
In 2016, Mariotti addedI due Foscari to his repertory, conducting it as a return engagement at the Teatro alla Scala.[29][30][31] Later the same year, he led his first performances of two French operas, both featuring Flórez:Les Huguenots at theDeutsche Oper in Berlin[32] and the above-mentionedWerther in Bologna.[33][34]
Mariotti married Russian sopranoOlga Peretyatko in Pesaro in August 2012, just after a run of Rossini'sMatilde di Shabran, o sia Bellezza e Cuor di ferro (Beauty and Ironheart) in which they both participated. She was born in Leningrad in 1980. They live in the Pesaro area, as do Flórez and his wife. The four are close friends; the men were introduced by retired Peruvian tenorErnesto Palacio, a mentor to Flórez, longtime Pesaro area resident, former artist manager for both the younger tenor and the conductor, and, as of 2018, superintendent of theRossini Opera Festival.
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