Andrea Molino
Andrea Molino, conductor and composer, was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Paris.
Recent projects as a conductor include Heiner Goebbels’ SurrogateCities at the Ravenna Festival (a work he has also conducted at the Edinburgh International Festival among others), Berg’s Wozzeck directed by W. Kentridge and Shostakovitch’s The Nose directed by B. Kosky and Bartòk’s Bluebeard’s Castle at the Sydney Opera House, Szymanowski’s Kròl Roger directed by Mariusz Trelinski and the premiere of Mikael Karlsson’s Melancholia at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, the opening of the Chigiana International Festival in Siena with Luciano Berio’s Coro and Voci with Tabea Zimmermann, the New York Stories project (Bernstein-Gershwin-Ives) with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a Mahler-Strauss-Messiaen project with Thomas Hampson and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the premiere of Cathy Marston’s The Cellist at the Royal Opera House in London and Carmen at the Théâtre National du Capitole in Toulouse. In Sydney he had previously conducted Kròl Roger (directed by K. Holten, Green Room Award 2018), Carmen, Tosca and La Bohème (2015 NYE Gala at the Sydney Opera House) Macbeth and A Masked Ball (directed by Alex Ollé) among others. At the Teatro La Fenice in Venice he premiered Luca Mosca’s Signor Goldoni and Claudio Ambrosini’s and Daniel Pennac’s Il Killer di Parole and opened the 2010 concert season with the world premiere of Maderna’s Requiem (CD Stradivarius, Abbiati Award 2022) and the Music Biennale 2005.
He also conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the BBC SSO Glasgow, the Royal Swedish Orchestra, the Malmoe Opera Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Lyon at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Berliner Festspiele at the Philharmonie Berlin, Beijing Opera House, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, Sydney Festival, Queensland Festival, Brisbane Festival, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Opéra de Nancy, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Meistersingerfestival in Nuremberg and RomaEuropa Festival among others.
With the Pocket Opera Company in Nuremberg he realized the smiling carcass (1999) and Those Who Speak in a Faint Voice (2001), first examples of his commitment to innovative, multimedia-oriented music theatre. 2000 to 2006 he was Artistic Director of Fabrica Musica; CREDO was premiered at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then performed in Rome and at the Queensland Music Festival in Brisbane. WINNERS was premiered at the Brisbane Festival and later performed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l’être was premiered in 2008 at Le Fresnoy. In 2009 at the Basilica dei Frari in Venice he conducted Of Flowers And Flames; Three Mile Island was premiered in 2012 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Music Theatre Now Award 2013). – there is no why here – was premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 2014 and revived in 2015 in Antwerp. The Garden of Forking Paths, developed with the Centro di Ricerche RAI, was premiered at Palazzo Madama in Turin in 2021; The sense of the place opened the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano 2022. La vérité, pas toute was first performed in 2023 at the Chigiana Festival in Siena; il Popolo giusto vuole la neve, a commission of Festival Aperto, at the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia in 2024.
His recordings are published on CD and DVD by Stradivarius, Milan, ECM, Munich, Naïve, Paris and ABC Classics, Sydney, among others. His compositions are published by RAI Com, Nuova Stradivarius and Ricordi.
