Daniele Rustioni

Daniele Rustioni, the new permanent conductor of the Opéra de Lyon, is one of the most renowned conductors of his generation. Alongside his duties in Lyon, he is also Music Director of the Orchestra della Toscana. From 2012 to 2014, he was Music Director of Bari's Teatro Petruzzelli, and also held the position of Principal Guest Conductor at St Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Theatre.

Daniele Rustioni studied piano, organ and composition in Milan, and took conducting lessons with Gilberto Serembe. He went on to perfect his art at Siena's Accademia Musicale Chigiana with Gianluigi Gelmetti, then at London's Royal Academy of Music.

In 2007, Gianandrea Noseda offered him the opportunity to conduct the Orchestra of Turin's Teatro Regio for the first time. From 2008 to 2009, he was appointed Associate Conductor at London's Covent Garden, where he worked closely with Antonio Pappano, and has since been regularly invited to conduct (Verdi's Aida in 2011, Donizetti's L'Elixir d'amour in 2014, and Verdi's La Traviata in 2017). In 2012, he made his debut at La Scala in Milan with Puccini's La Bohème. He subsequently conducted Un Bal masqué (Verdi, 2013) and Le Trouvère (Verdi, 2014).

He has worked with the most prestigious opera houses in Italy (Teatro Regio Turin, La Fenice Venice, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro, Opera Rome, Teatro di San Carlo Naples), the UK (Opera North, Welsh National Opera) and Germany (Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Staatsoper Berlin, Staatsheater Stuttgart). He also conducts regularly at the Opéra national de Paris and the Zurich Opera. In the United States, he has appeared at the Glimmerglass Festival, the Washington National Opera, and made his New York Metropolitan Opera debut with Aïda in 2017.

In the symphonic field, he has conducted the Orchestra of the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, the RAI Symphony Orchestra, the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre National de Belgique, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra.

Daniele Rustioni has recorded a disc of arias with bass-baritone Erwin Schrott (Sony Classical). He is currently working with the Orchestra della Toscana on a series dedicated to 20th-century Italian symphonic repertoire, the first of which, devoted to Giorgio Federico Ghedini, was recently released, also by Sony Classical.

In Lyon, he conducted Simon Boccanegra (2014) as well as new productions of Halévy's La Juive (directed by Olivier Py, 2015-2016) and Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice (directed by Peter Langdal, 2016-2017). In the 2017-2018 season, he will conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in London, the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, the Bayerische Staatsorchester in Munich and the Stuttgart Opera Orchestra.