Andrea Molino

Andrea Molino (born in 1964 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian composer and conductor. He has first attracted international attention through a video/music theatre work, Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice, a project about capital punishment, and later through the multimedia music theatre projects CREDO and WINNERS.
He has been Musical Director of the Pocket Opera Company Nuremberg (1996–2007). As Artistic Director of the Music Department of Fabrica (2000–2006), he has worked on projects together with Heiner Goebbels, David Moss, Koichi Makigami and others. For the 2007–2008 season he was invited artist at Le Fresnoy, Lille (France). 2009 he was Artistic Director of the World Venice Forum, where he conducted his own multimedia concert Of Flowers And Flames, for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, in India. Three Mile Island, on the nuclear accident in Pennsylvania in 1979, was first performed in March 2012 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe; the project received the Music Theatre Now Award 2013. His latest opera, - there is no why here -, was premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in April 2014 and was presented in May 2015 in Antwerp at deSingel for the Flemish Opera (Opera XXI Festival).
As a conductor he recently performed Szymanowski's Kròl Roger directed by Kasper Holten for Opera Australia and the Sydney Festival at the Sydney Opera House. For Opera Australia he had previously conducted Bizet's Carmen, Puccini's Tosca and La Bohème (the latter was also the 2015 NYE Gala at the Sydney Opera House), Verdi's A Masked Ball (directed by Alex Ollé - La Fura dels Baus) and Macbeth and Rossini's The Barber of Seville among others. In 2018 he will conduct Shostakovich's The Nose, directed by Barrie Kosky. He opened the 2010 concert season of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with the world premiere of Bruno Maderna’s Requiem; at the Fenice he had opened the Music Biennale 2005 with Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities and conducted the world premieres of Mosca’s Signor Goldoni and Ambrosini's Il Killer di Parole.
His work is documented on many CDs and on DVDs.

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