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Giuseppe Grazioli

Conductor Giuseppe Grazioli has specialized in recording less-often-heard music from his native Italy. He has a long track record as a conductor of both orchestral music and opera. Grazioli earned a degree in piano and composition, studying the former with Paolo Bordoni and composition with Niccolò Castiglioni. He then switched to conducting, in which field he had a variety of prestigious teachers that included Leonard Bernstein, Peter Maag, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Leopold Hager, and Franco Ferrara. He has conducted many of the major Italian orchestras, including that of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. He also led opera orchestras in Rome, Bologna, Trieste, and Verona, among others. In 1993, he made his recording debut, leading the Harmonia Ensemble on the album 1931, which featured works by Constant Lambert, Arnold Bax, and Vittorio Rieti. Two years later, Grazioli conducted a performance of Nino Rota's rarely-heard opera La Visita Meravigliosa, leading the Orchestra e Coro Sociale di Rovigo on the small label La Bottega Discantica. Since then, he has often championed Rota's music. Grazioli has a large repertory of contemporary music. He has conducted the Italian premieres of Leonard Bernstein's Mass and Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, as well as the world premiere of Marco Tutino's opera Vita (based on the Mike Nichols film Wit) with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. He has conducted opera in the U.S. several times, including a 2001 production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Washington Opera and Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles with the same company in 2008-2009. He has also conducted several productions at Yale University. In 2019, he became the principal conductor of the Opéra de Saint-Étienne in France, and he has conducted extensively in that country. Grazioli has recorded for Decca (six volumes of Rota's orchestral music with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi), Warner Music, and Dynamic, where he led a performance of Licinio Refice's opera Cecilia in 2023.
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