Antonino Fogliani
Antonino Fogliani (born in Messina, June 29, 1976) is an Italian conductor. Biography. Fogliani studied composition at the Conservatorio "G. B. Martini" in Bologna with and graduated with honors in orchestral conducting at the Milan Conservatory, under Vittorio Parisi. He then furthered his musical training at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena where he studied conducting with Gianluigi Gelmetti and composition with Franco Donatoni and Ennio Morricone. Fogliani's debut at the "Rossini Opera Festival" in Pesaro in 2001 with "Il viaggio a Reims" was the beginning of an international career. He went on to conduct productions such  as Gaetano Donizetti's "Ugo conte di Parigi" and "Maria Stuarda" at La Scala in Milan, Pietro Mascagni's "Amica" and Rossini's "Mosè in Egitto" at the Rome Opera, "Lucia di Lammermoor" in St. Gallen, Verdi's "Oberto conte di San Bonifacio" in the Verona Philharmonic Theatre, "Il barbiere di Siviglia" at La Fenice in Venice, and Bellini's "La sonnambula" at the Teatro Calderón (Valladolid). In 2005 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples he conducted Paisiello's "" in the new version by ; the work was reprised in the 2006/07 season at La Scala in Milan. Fogliani made  his American debut in 2011 conducting "Lucia di Lammermoor" at the Houston Grand Opera. In 2012 he debuted "Aida" at the Teatro 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", and "I Lombardi alla prima crociata". He has conducted and recorded several titles in the Rossini 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 of Mercadante 's "Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamaccio" and "I briganti" and Vaccaj's "La sposa di Messina" at the Rossini in Wildbad festival, where he has been the Music Director since 2011. For the 2011 festival, he orchestrated the seven numbers composed by Giovanni Tadolini in 1833 for Rossini's "Stabat Mater" (the orchestral version of which was lost) and conducted them in their first performance at Rossini in Wildbad. 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 the Teatro 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), the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre de Bretagne and the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. Fogliani has recorded for Naxos, Dynamic, Arthaus Musik, and Bongiovanni. Since 2021 Fogliani has taught orchestral conducting at the Conservatory "A. Scarlatti  in Palermo. He lives in Lugano.