Antonino Fogliani

Antonino Fogliani (born in Messina, June 29, 1976) is an Italian conductor.

Fogliani studied composition at the Conservatorio "G. B. Martini" in Bologna with Francesco Carluccio^[] and graduated with honors in orchestral conducting at the Milan Conservatory, under Vittorio Parisi. He then furthered his musical training at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena where he studied conducting with Gianluigi Gelmetti and composition with Franco Donatoni and Ennio Morricone.

Fogliani's debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 2001 with Il viaggio a Reims was the beginning of an international career. He went on to conduct productions such as Gaetano Donizetti's Ugo conte di Parigi and Maria Stuarda at La Scala in Milan, Pietro Mascagni's Amica and Rossini's Mosè in Egitto at the Rome Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor in St. Gallen, Verdi's Oberto conte di San Bonifacio in the Verona Philharmonic Theatre, Il barbiere di Siviglia at La Fenice in Venice, and Bellini's La sonnambula at the Teatro Calderón (Valladolid). In 2005 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples he conducted Paisiello's Il Socrate immaginario^[] in the new version by Roberto De Simone^[]; the work was reprised in the 2006/07 season at La Scala in Milan.