“Gianandrea Noseda, the music director of Turin’s Teatro Regio, is to become music director of Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, the fourth Italian in recent years to be tapped for a major American orchestra,” states an unsigned article posted Tuesday (1/5) on The Economist. “He joins Riccardo Muti at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Nicola Luisotti at the San Francisco Opera and Corrado Rovaris at the Philadelphia Opera. In addition, Fabio Luisi holds the position of Principal Conductor at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in addition to his role as General Music Director of the Zurich Opera. Behind them, an entire generation of Italian conductors is making a mark at leading orchestras and opera houses.” The article mentions Giacomo Sagripanti, Michele Mariotti, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Daniele Calligari, and Daniele Rustioni as among the younger generation. “According to Marco Armiliato, a Genoa-born conductor, Italy is experiencing what he calls the Federer Effect: one famous practitioner inspiring lots of younger people to pursue the same path.… for decades, Italian conducting was dominated by Arturo Toscanini.… After his death, his heirs Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Muti went on to great success, conducting both opera and symphonic works.… And now, Italian conductors are everywhere.”
Posted January 7, 2016
Pictured clockwise from top left: conductors Gianandrea Noseda, Nicola Luisotti, Riccardo Muti, and Corrado Rovaris
