Antonio Pappano |
  
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Antonio Pappano was born in London of Italian parents and moved to the USA at the age of 13. He studied piano, composition and conducting and his work as a repetiteur and assistant conductor rapidly led to worldwide engagements. In 1987 Pappano made his debut as an opera conductor with La bohème at the Norske Opera in Oslo and was appointed Music Director there in 1990. At the age of 32 Pappano was named Music Director of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium. During his tenure there he conducted numerous opera productions and also continued his work as a pianist by accompanying many international singers in the recital series at La Monnaie.
In 1993, Pappano made a notable debut at the Vienna Staatsoper, replacing Christoph von Dohnànyi at the last minute in a new production of Wagner’s Siegfried,. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York in 1997 and with the Bayreuth Festival in 1999.
Pappano has conducted widely in the United State and Europe including the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concergebouw, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Munich Philharmonic.. 1997 he became principal guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has recorded extensively: conducting Don Carlos, La bohème, La rondine (awarded Best Recording of the Year by Gramophone Magazine), Il trittico, Werther, Manon, Tosca, Il trovatore and Tristan & Isolde for EMI Classics plus Wintermärchen for DG and The Turn of the Screw for Accord; with soloists Plácido Domingo, Natalie Dessay, Nina Stemme, Han-Na Chang, Maxim Vengerov and Leif Ove Andsnes; and as pianist with Ian Bostridge, Barbara Bonney and Rockwell Blake.
Music Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, since September 2002, Antonio Pappano also became Music Director of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in October 2005 with which he has recorded Tchaikovsky overtures and symphonies for EMI Classics. Their recording of Respighi’s Roman Trilogy will be released later this year.
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