Gianluca Capuano

Born in Milan in 1968, Gianluca Capuano studied organ, composition, and conducting at the conservatory of his native city and also completed a degree in philosophy at the University of Milan. He specialized in early music as well as historically informed performance practice from early in his career and has appeared as a conductor, organist, and continuo player throughout Europe, the United States, Russia, and Japan. He has collaborated with such artists as Michael Chance, Emma Kirkby, Cecilia Bartoli, Max Emanuel Cencic, Philippe Jaroussky, Diego Fasolis, and Lorenzo and Vittorio Ghielmi. Capuano founded the ensemble Il canto di Orfeo in 2006, with which he has performed at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, presenting Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart in 2013 and participating in a production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten in 2015. He has collaborated with Concerto Köln on Leonardo Vinci’s Artaserse and has conducted Bellini’s Norma starring Cecilia Bartoli at the Edinburgh Festival, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden; this collaboration was continued at the Salzburg Festival, where he has conducted the Musiciens du Prince-Monaco in works by Handel, Rossini, and Mozart since 2017. Capuano has served as Principal Conductor of this ensemble since 2019. He also enjoys a regular association with Zurich Opera, where he has appeared in productions of Haydn’s Orlando paladino, Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, and Rossini’s L'italiana in Algeri; in 2023, he will focus on Rossini’s La cenerentola. In the 2021-22 season, he performed this work at the Vienna Staatsoper and led Rossini’s Il turco in Italia at the Bavarian Staatsoper. In the fall of 2022, he will bring Gluck’s Alceste to the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Capuano’s recordings include an album of arias with tenor Javier Camarena and a Viardot tribute with mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan, both with Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL debut on 16 September 2018 conducting the Musiciens du Prince-Monaco in Rossini’s La cenerentola.

June 2022