Marco Guidarini has a broad and comprehensive education in classics, composition and the cello. He studied conducting with Mario Gusulla and Franco Ferrara and became assistant to Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Lyon Opera. He made his operatic debut there conducting Falstaff and went on to conduct at the opera houses of Los Angeles, Dallas, Minneapolis, Sydney, Nice, Montpellier, Marseille, Bologna, Berlin (Deutsche Oper), Munich (Bayerische Staatsoper), Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, English National Opera, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen and at many festivals, notably Wexford and Martina Franca where his performances of Verdi’s Macbeth, Il Trovatorio and Mascagni’s Roma were recorded for the Dynamic label.

In the concert hall, he has conducted the Orchestra della RAI di Roma, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Haydn Orchestra Bolzano, Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, the Orchestre National de France, Melbourne Symphony, Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of the Suedwestfunk Baden-Baden, Orquesta Sinfonica de Valencia, Hong Kong Philharmonic and many others. Last season he made his Japanese début with a new orchestra, the Japan Virtuoso Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.

At the beginning of the 2001/2002 season Guidarini became Chief Conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, beginning with Mahler’s 6th Symphony in his opening concert. He was afterwards appointed Musical Director of the Nice Opera. His productions there have included Don Giovanni, La Boheme, Die Zauberflöte, Carmen, Simon Boccanegra and Idomeneo as well as a full concert series. He has also recorded Simon Boccanegra in New Zealand for MMT.

Outside Nice, his engagements have included his debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York with Rigoletto, new productions of La Damnation de Faust and Aida in Leipzig, La Battaglia di Legnano in his debut at the Teatro San Carlo Napoli, La Bohème at the Teatro Comunale Bologna, Aida and Carmen at the Stade de France, Paris, Leoncavallo’s La Bohème for Klangbogen Wien, Puccini’s Le Villi with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (winner of the Grand Prix du Disque 2004), Gluck’s Orphee with Roberto Alagna in Montpellier and Anna Bolena for the Teatro Massimo Palermo (debut).

In 2003/2004 he conducted Idomeneo for the Teatro San Carlo, Naples. This has since been released on DVD on Dynamic. In the same season he conducted Simon Boccanegra and Idomeneo in Nice and recorded Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac with Roberto Alagna for Deutsche Grammophon. Last season he conducted new productions of Un ballo in maschera, Salome (the French version) and Turandot in Nice, concerts in Warsaw, Prague, Milan, Genoa, Montpellier and throughout Spain as well as the full symphonic season in Nice and made his debut at the Teatre Liceu, Barcelona in concert performances of Verdi’s Il Corsaro, gave concerts in Canada conducting the Violons du Roi at the Lanaudiere Festival, Montreal and made a recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra, London for Opera Rara.

He opened the 2005/2006 season in Nice with a new production of Pelléas et Mélisande and completed a tour of Japan with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. Also in 2005/6 he conducted a new production of Wozzek in Nice, a new production of Don Carlos in Strasbourg and Lucia di Lammermoor at the Orange Festival. In 06/07 he conducted Die Zauberflöte in Naples and a Verdi concert performance at Leipzig Gewandhaus as well as Cosi fan tutte, La Vedova Scaltra (Wolf Ferrari), Orphée (Gluck) with Roberto Alagna in Montpellier, Anna Bolena in Palermo (debut), Nabucco and La Boheme in Nice.

In subsequent seasons, he conducted Rigoletto for Savonlinna Opera Festival, Finland (debut), Don Carlo at the new Opera House in Oslo (their first opera production), Macbeth and Aida in Nice and Simon Boccanegra in his debut for the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto as well as concerts with the Halle Staatskapelle, Orquesta Sinfonica de Malaga, Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias (Oviedo) and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice with whom he also recorded a new disc of music by Poulenc. In addition he conducted concerts with the Ensemble Apostrophe de l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice with several world and French premieres. For his last concert with this group before stepping down as Music Director in Nice, he arranged Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder for 13 instruments and will publish this version shortly.

Marco Guidarini recently conducted a series of concerts with the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ravello and Pompei. His future plans include Falstaff at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Fidelio in Warsaw, La Boheme in Stockholm and a new production of Il Trovatore in Toronto for the Canadian Opera Company.

2010-2011 Season

25/08/2010

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