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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Discography
14 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Alfano: Suite romantica, Una danza & Divertimento
Davide Vendramin, Vittorio Rabagliati, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano, Giuseppe Grazioli
Classical - Released by Naxos on Apr 12, 2024
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Kurt Weill: L’opera da tre soldi / Fiorenzo Carpi: Circus Suite / Nino Rota: Ogni anno punto e da capo
Giuseppe Grazioli, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Classical - Released by Universal Music Italia srL. on Apr 29, 2016
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Rota: Orchestral Works (Vol. 5)
Giuseppe Grazioli, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Classical - Released by Universal Music Italia srL. on Mar 31, 2017
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Nino Rota : Orchestral Works (Vol. 1) (SET)
Giuseppe Grazioli, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Classical - Released by Universal Music Italia srL. on Jan 1, 2013
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Marinuzzi: Sinfonia In La - Suite Siciliana
Giuseppe Grazioli, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Classical - Released by Universal Music Italia srL. on May 5, 2017
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Nino Rota : Orchestral Works (Vol. 4)
Giuseppe Grazioli, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Classical - Released by Universal Music Italia srL. on Nov 18, 2016
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Rota : L'œuvre pour piano, Concerto Soirée...
Danielle Laval, Giuseppe Grazioli, Orchestra Città di Ferrara
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Jun 25, 2002
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Nino Rota : Orchestral Works (Vol. 3) (set)
Giuseppe Grazioli, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Classical - Released by Universal Music Italia srL. on Jan 1, 2013
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Zandonai: Violin Concerto "Romantico" & Quadri di Segantini
Stefano Zanchetta, L'Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Giuseppe Grazioli, Maurizio Dini Ciacci
Classical - Released by CPO on Aug 1, 2005
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Rota: Orchestral Works Vol. 6
Giuseppe Grazioli, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Classical - Released by Universal Music Italia srL. on Dec 15, 2017
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Bax / Lambert / Rieti
Harmonia Ensemble, Giuseppe Grazioli
Classical - Released by Arts Productions Ltd on Jul 4, 2006
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Le Avventure di Pinocchio: Viaggio in groppa al tonno
Film Soundtracks - Released by WM Italy on Apr 8, 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo