Who is Michele Mariotti, the Maestro who conducts the New Year’s Eve concert at the Fenice in Venice

Pesaro, 1 January 2026 – Michele Mariotti on the podium of La Fenice Theatre of Venice to direct the traditional New Year’s concert. One of the many prestigious goals achieved by the Pesaro baton.

Son of Gianfranco Mariotti, founder of the Rossini Opera Festival

But let’s find out what it is Michele Mariotti. Son of the late Gianfranco, creator, founder and superintendent of the Rossini Opera Festival, Michele was born in Pesaro in 1979. After completing his humanistic studies he graduated in composition at Rossini Conservatorywhere he also studied conducting under the guidance of Manlio Benzi. At the same time he graduated in orchestral conducting at the Pescarese Music Academy with Donato Renzetti.

Since 2022 he has been musical director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Since 2022 he has been musical director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Awarded the 36th Abbiati Award for best orchestra conductoris a guest of the main Italian and international theaters and festivals. Among these, La Scala in Milan, the Opéra in Paristhe Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Metropolitan in New York, the San Carlo in Naples, the Festival Verdi in Parma, the Amsterdam Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, l’Opera di Los Angelesthe Wexford Festival, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées di Parigi.

Al Rof has directed numerous productions

Obviously the festival he attended most and where he directed numerous productions is the Rof. Festival that first saw him passionate spectator since adolescence and then how choir and orchestra director. Since 2010 in Pesaro with nine productions: 2010 Sigismondo; 2010 Stabat Mater; 2012 Matilde of Shabran; 2013 Guillaume Tell; 2015 Stabat Mater; 2016 The woman of the lake; 2019 Semiramide; 2023 Petite Messe Solennelle; 2024 Hermione.

He reached the podium ofOrchestra of the Leipzig Gewandhaus, of the Orchester National de Franceof the Münchner Symphoniker, of the Rai National Symphony Orchestrathe Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nederlands Philharmonic; Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne; La Scala Philharmonic Orchestraby the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, to name but a few.

Collaborations with great directors

He collaborates with prominent directors such as Mario Martone, Emma Dante, Davide LivermoreDamiano Michieletto, Robert Carsen, Simon Stone, Michael Mayer, Herbert Fritsch, Benedict Andrews, Tobias Kratzer, Johannes Erath, Claus Guth, Deborah Warner.

The management of the Municipality of Bologna

From 2008 he was Principal Conductor and then Musical Director until 2018 Municipality of Bolognaa theater where he conducted numerous symphony concerts and dozens of opera productions, including La Boheme directed by Graham Vick, which won the “Franco Abbiati” music critics award as best show of 2018. He also led the Bologna Municipal Orchestra and Choir on tour in various Italian cities in Tokyo, Moscow and Paris.

More recently he stood on the podium of the Wiener Staatsoper The Barber of Seville and Norma, at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Moïse et Pharaonat the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples Rossini’s Maometto II and Verdi’s Otello which also led to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Macbeth at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Bohème at the Paris Opera, Guillaume Tell at the Teatro alla Scala, Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival (44th Abbiati Prize) and Dialogues des Carmelites, Aida, Mefistofele by Boito, Tosca, the Recomposed Triptych, Peter Grimes, Simon Boccanegra, Tosca at the Rome Opera House, at the Baths of Caracalla Bernstein’s West Side Story, and a tour in Japan with the Choir and Orchestra of the Roman Theater. He stood on the podium of the Gürzenich Orchester Köln at the Philharmonie in Cologne, of the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, of the Tonkünstler Orchestra at the Muiskverein in Vienna and of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.

In the 2025/26 season he is engaged in symphony concerts in Italy and Europe

In the 2025/26 season he is engaged in symphony concerts in Italy and Europe, including New Year’s Eve concert 2026 at the Teatro la Feniceon the podium of the Rai National Orchestra, of the George Enescu Philharmonic, of the Scala Philharmonic, of the Haydn Orchestra, with which he has a three-year project planned, and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro San Carlo. In addition to his work at the Rome Opera, he conducts Aida at the Paris Opera directed by Shirin Neshat and Luisa Miller in Vienna directed by Philipp Grigorian.