See 2 performances featuring Francesco CortiFrancesco Corti is the Music Director of Scottish Opera. He made his Company début in 2007 and, following his official appointment, conducted The Two Widows at the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival. He was born in Milan, where he studied Violin and Composition, then worked as a repetiteur throughout Italy before continuing his conducting studies in Vienna. He made his operatic début in 1986 conducting La traviata in Jesi. He has a broad repertoire in both the operatic and symphonic fields. In 1996 he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. From 2000 to 2006 he was Music Director of the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern. He was the Music Director of Magdeburg Opera in Germany from 2006 to 2009. Other operatic engagements include L’Italiana in Algeri (Deutsche Oper Berlin), La Cenerentola (Vienna Volksoper), Il barbiere di Siviglia (San Francisco), I due Foscari (Seoul). He has also conducted the Norrköping Symphony, Hungarian State, Strasbourg Philharmonic and Seville Symphony orchestras, and in Germany the orchestras of Lübeck, Augsburg, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Ludwigshafen and SWR Kaiserslautern.
Scottish Opera appearances: Madama Butterfly, The Two Widows, I Puritani, Manon, The Elixir of Love, and La bohème. Francesco conducts The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart this autumn, as well as curating and conducting the St Andrews in the Square concert series with The Orchestra of Scottish Opera.
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| 6-Apr-2013 Theatre Royal | Dutchman flies into north-east Scotland |
 In Harry Fehr’s much-anticipated new production of The Flying Dutchman for Scottish Opera, the setting is in Scotland – as Wagner had originally intended before a last-minute switch to Norway during rehearsals for the first production in 1843. Fehr also brings the setting to the north-east of Scotland in the 1970s, a time when Scotland was getting to grips with North Sea oil, and indeed, a silhouette of an oil rig emerging out of a bluish fog is depicted on the front stage gauze.Read full review... | |
| 17-Feb-2013 Theatre Royal | Splendid singing in Scottish Opera's quirky production of Werther |
 The world of opera can sometimes be hard for the newcomer to love as there are often fiendishly complicated and frequently unbelievable plots to get to grips with. Jules Massenet’s opera Werther is happily none of these: it is a straightforward story of unrequited love.
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| 12-May-2012 Theatre Royal | Anthony Besch's 1980 Tosca: Meeting an Old Friend |
 Scottish Opera’s final production of the season was a revival of the much-loved 1980 production of Tosca by the late Anthony Besch, redirected here by Jonathan Cocker. Besch was struck by the political parallel between the Napoleonic era of the 1800s and Italy under Mussolini in the 1940s, and he made the bold choice to set this production in 1943. It all works superbly, which is testified not only by this seventh revival for Scottish Opera, but also by the fact that this production has been seen in places as far apart as New Zealand, Spain and the USA.
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| 26-Mar-2011 Theatre Royal | Scottish Opera's Intermezzo: Strauss's Family Joke. |
 Intermezzo is an opera based on the real life happenings in the relationship between Richard Strauss and his wife Pauline, characterised on stage as Robert and Christine Storch.
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