The Italian conductor Fabrizio Maria Carminati studied piano, composition and conducting in Milan. He made his debut in 1992 with Puccini’s La Bohème in Turin, where he went on to conduct major operatic works. His repertoire includes numerous Italian operas. From 2000 to 2004 he was artistic director of the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo and from 2004 to 2006 held the same role at the Fondazione Arena di Verona.

He has worked in opera houses across Italy, and has regularly appeared in Bilbao, Lyon, Nice, Strasburg and Tokyo as well as at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman. Recent appearances include Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Trieste, Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana in Palermo, Rossini’s Moïse at Rossini in Wildbad and Bellini’s Adelson e Salvini in Catania.