Guest conductor

Andrea Sanguineti

Trained in Vienna and Milan, the German-Italian conductor Andrea Sanguineti began his career first as Maestro Preparatore and later as Kapellmeister at the Hanover State Opera. In 2011, he was appointed First Kapellmeister at the Mainfranken Theatre in Würzburg and shortly afterwards General Music Director of the Gerhart-Hauptmann Theatre in Görlitz-Zittau, where he worked until 2018. He is currently General Music Director of the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Aalto Theatre in Essen, where he has conducted »Parsifal«, »Tosca«, »Aida« and »La forza del destino«, among others.

Andrea Sanguineti has also appeared as an opera conductor at various European opera houses, including the Zurich Opera House (»Verdi Gala«, »Lucia di Lammermoor«, »Rigoletto«), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (»Don Giovanni«, »Manon Lescaut«), the Cologne Opera (»Lucia di Lammermoor«, »Die lustige Witwe«), the Leipzig Opera (»Lucia di Lammermoor«, »Tosca«, »La Cenerentola«), the Opéra national du Rhin Strasbourg (»Stiffelio«, »Norma«), the Opéra de Nice (»La traviata«) and the Grand Théatre de Genève (»Maria Stuarda«). He also made his debut at the Sydney Opera in 2023 with Donizetti’s »Roberto Devereux« and at the Savonlinna Festival in 2024 with Mozart’s »Don Giovanni«.

In addition to appearances in opera, Andrea Sanguineti has conducted the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra in concert with works by Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Richard Strauss and Peter I. Tchaikovsky, among others. He also conducts orchestras such as the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Amsterdam and the Orchestra Națională Radio Bucharest. Andrea Sanguineti regularly collaborates with artists such as Frank Peter Zimmermann, Anna Vinnitskaya, Maria Agresta, Alexey Vinogradov, Jonathan Tetelman, Benjamin Bernheim, Lisette Oropesa, Saioa Hernández, Kathrin Dehaes and Rolando Villazón.