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Marcello PANNI |
Born in Rome, Marcello Panni begins to study piano
and composition at a very young age.
He attends Franco Ferraras courses at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome
and perfects himself with Goffredo Petrassi, thereafter joins Manuel Rosenthals
class at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
where he will earn his diploma in 1968. His stage debut takes place the
following year at the Venice Festival.
As a very open-minded composer and conductor Marcello Panni beholds a broad repertoire.He conducted and recorded rare works, not only of the 18th Century such as Pergolese's Il Flaminio and Adriano in Siria, Paisiello's La Nina Pazza per Amore, Haendel's Julius Caesar but also of the 20th Century such as Petrassi's Il Cordovano, Berio's Passaggio and Opera (at the Paris Festival d'Automne in 1979), Bussotti's Bergkristall (at the Milan Scala in 1982), Philip Glass's Civil Wars (World Premiere - Rome 1984) and The Fall of the Usher House (Italian Premiere - Maggio Musicale Florentino 1992.) Marcello Panni conducts with the same ease the traditional lyric repertoire: Rigoletto in Vienna and Bilbao, L'Elisir d'Amore in London Berlin, New York and Barcelona, Il Trittico and L'Heure Espagnole at the Paris Opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor in Vienna, Macbeth, La Fille du Régiment and Tosca in Zurich... In 1988, his Metropolitan Opera debut in L'Elisir d'Amore starring Luciano Pavarotti meets with great success. The Met re-invites him twice, 1989 to conduct Rigoletto and 1992 with Lucia di Lammermoor. His career leads him to the most prestigious orchestras in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.
In September of 1994, he is appointed Musical Director of the Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in Milan, with which he will tour to Malta, Bonn, the Menton Festival... In the same year, Maestro Panni is also appointed Musical Director of the "Bonn Opera" where he conducts the new productions of Trittico, Manon Lescaut, Fidelio, Romeo and Juliet and Barbiere di Siviglia.In 1994 his first opera, Hanjo, staged by Robert Wilson, is premiered at Maggio Musicale Florentino.
His second opera, Il Giudizio di Paride staged
by Gian-Carlo del Monaco, is premiered April 1996 at the Bonn Opera. Two
years later, June 1998, The Bremen Opera stages his third lyric work,
The Banquet, with an English libretto by Kenneth Koch, conducted by Günter
Neuhold. Between February 2000 and February 2001, this re-staged production
will be performed in the opera houses of Genova, Florence and Rome.Marcello
Panni's discography is a faithful mirror of his musical and intellectual
eclectism.
Next to be published Rossini's Semiramide starring Edita Gruberova and
the Vienna Radio Orchestra.
In September of 1997, Marcello Panni is
appointed Musical Director of the Nice Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra.
He resigns from this post four years later, in September 2001, to become
Artistic Director of Naples' Opera House the Teatro di San Carlo. Meanwhile
he is also appointed Artistic Director of Rome's Accademia Filarmonica
Romana.
Among his composer's projects, an opera in French language "Garibaldi
en Sicile" adapted from Alexandre Dumas' book "Les Garibaldiens".