Marco Boemi (Conductor)
In 2008, he started with a concert with the ZAGREB PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. He
was invited by the FJODOR SCHALJAPIN FESTIVAL in Kazan to conduct Rigoletto and
several Gala concerts. In TOKYO, he conducted concerts with Vincenzo La Scola
and Giuseppe Sabbatini and a production of L’Elisir d’amore. In 2008, he
recorded three new G. PUCCINI CD albums: one with Fabio Armiliato, followed by a
duet concert Omaggio G. Puccini with Daniela Dessi and a recording with Fabio
Armiliato in the TEATRO FILARMONICO in Verona. Further concert highlights were
Messa da Requiem by G. Verdi in ROTTERDAM and DEN HAAG. For the CD-label Denon
he conducted the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra for a new CD called
Omaggio a Puccini with Vincenzo La Scola.
In 2009, he will start the season as a pianist conducting a Gala concert with
Daniela Dessi at TEATRO ALLA SCALA in January, then he will conduct Messa da
Requiem at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and in February he will work on new
productions of Eugen Onegin and Pique Dame, followed by Carmen and Il Trovatore
at the FJODOR SCHALJAPIN FESTIVAL in KAZAN.
Italian conductor Marco Boemi studied pianoforte at the Santa Cecilia
Conservatory and jurisprudence at the University La Sapienza in Rome where he
graduated as a doctor of laws.
In 1990, he made his debut at the ROVERETO FESTIVAL with the Virtuosi di
Santa Cecilia, which was recorded both on CD and on television. His opera debut
followed shortly after this with La Traviata and Rigoletto with Renato Bruson at
the SFERISTERIO DI MACERATA Festival.
In 1992, Boemi received his first invitation to the SUNTORY HALL TOKYO, in
Japan. Ever since then, Boemi has been closely cooperating with the Hall: Carmen
with Elena Zarimba in the title role and Neil Shicoff, L’Elisir d’Amore with
Giuseppe Sabbatini and Eva Mei and several gala concerts with the TOKYO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA with Renato Bruson, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Vincenzo la Scola and Daniela
Dessм are just some of the productions with TV- and CD-recording the conductor
has made.
Boemi advanced quickly on the international scale with a fabulous career
taking him to the following opera houses and concert halls: FUJIWARA OPERA
TOKYO: La Favorita with Giuseppe Sabbatini and Roberto Frontali, TEATRO SAN
CARLO: Lohengrin, LґAmico Fritz, AMPHITHEATRE OPERA DE PARIS: Il Barbiere di
Siviglia, BILBAO: Werther with Giuseppe Sabbatini, NATIONAL THEATRE NAGOYA: Un
Ballo in Maschera, DONIZETTI FESTIVAL BERGAMO: Adelia with Daniela Longhi in the
title role, ST. GALLEN: Simon Boccanegra and La Boheme, TEATRO CARLO FERLICE DI
GENOVA: Der Rosenkavalier, TEATRO POLITEAMA GRECO LECCE: Werther with Giuseppe
Sabbatini and Katia Ricciarelli, TEATRO NACIONAL DE SAO CARLOS LISBON:
Mefistofele with Paata Burchuladze, AMSTERDAM: Falstaff, RIVA DI GARDA FESTIVAL:
Tosca with Renato Bruson (with CD-recording), HUNGARIAN STATE OPERA BUDAPEST: La
Boheme, ROSSINI FESTIVAL PESARO, TEATRO REGIO DI TORINO, TEATRO REGIO DI
PARMA…..
His highlights of the past years include concerts with the PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA in London, with Daniela Dessм and Fabio Armiliato during the
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL in BRESCIA and Bergamo, with Vincenzo La Scola in BERLIN,
in the RONACHER in Vienna with Neil Shicoff as well as in the BRAHMS HALL of the
MUSIKVEREIN in Vienna with Stefania Bonfadelli and Giuseppe Sabbatini, a gala
commemorating the millennium of the city of KAZAN in presence of president
Vladimir Putin together with all presidents of the former Soviet republics.
During the SCHALJAPIN FESTIVAL, Marco Boemi led the new production of Lucia di
Lammermoor as well as shortly ago performances of Aida and Nabucco. He conducted
Pavarotti and friends in 1998 in MODENA (gala with Luciano Pavarotti, Cйline
Dion, Spice Girls, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Jon Bon Jovi…) with transmission
on TV as well as CD and DVD recording for DECCA, Turandot in ST. MARGARETHEN,
Otello in BRAUNSCHWEIG, Romeo et Juliette with Giuseppe Sabbatini and Stefania
Bonfadelli, Falstaff with Renato Bruson and in addition the gala concert for
Bruson’s 70th birthday in the SUNTORY HALL TOKYO, a Mario Lanza gala with
Vincenzo La Scola in the TEATRO MASSIMO DI PALERMO, a Bellini gala in PARIS,
concerts with the ORCHESTRA GIOVANILE DELLA SCALA, a gala in SPOLETO with
Giuseppe Sabbatini, Norma Fantini and Leo Nucci, the opening night of the
SPONTINI FESTIVAL with Gйrard Depardieu and Giuseppe Sabbatini as well as the
first performance outside Great Britain of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem. The
concert tour with Sabbatini in JAPAN is also available on CD.
In June 2007, Marco Boemi conducted the season opening of the TEATRO
DELL’OPERA DI ROMA in the CARACALLA THERMES with Vincenzo La Scola as well as
the following additional concerts: in BASTIA with Giuseppe Sabbatini, in
ABERDEEN with Nancy Gustafson and the Scottish Sinfonietta. In July, he
conducted the Italian Night with Vincenzo La Scola in BERLIN. And during the
FESTIVAL RIVA DEL GARDA as well as in August he conducted La Cenerentola and the
Closing Gala together with the winners of the Zandonai contest and the Cherubini
orchestra. In addition, he performed on the piano in a concert together with
Giuseppe Sabbatini in La Coruсa. During September and October he went on tour
through the NETHERLANDS with Aida. Furthermore, he worked on a new production of
La Traviata in KAZAN and he closed the year 2007 with a concert in OVIEDO with
Daniela Dessi and Fabio Armiliato.
Marco Boemi is also known as a sought-after concert pianist who has performed
with the following artists worldwide: Giuseppe Taddei, Renato Bruson, Raina
Kabaivanska, Gabriella Tucci, Mietta Sighele, Veriano Luchetti, Bonaldo
Giaiotti, Mariella Devia, Michele Pertusi, Daniela Dessм, Eva Mei, Paolo Coni,
Giuseppe Sabbatini, Nancy Gustafson, Marcello Giordani, Fiamma Izzo d’Amico,
Roberto Frontali, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Daniela Longhi, Luciana d’Intino, Tiziana
Fabbricini, Roberto Servile, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Sonia Ganassi et al.
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