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Marco Zambelli

Marco Zambelli was born in 1960 in Genoa and studied at the Niccolo Paganini Conservatory of Genoa in the class of organ and harpsichord. After several years of performing activity, he began to work as a choral conductor and in 1988 he headed the Children’s Choir of Grasse (Switzerland), and then was invited by the chief choirmaster of the Lyon Opera. While in Lyon, Marco Zambelli assisted John Eliot Gardiner in productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict, Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites. He has also worked as an assistant to such conductors as Neville Marriner and Bruno Campanella.

As an opera conductor, Marco Zambelli made his debut in 1994 at the Messina Opera House, after which he received invitations to work in the theaters of Cagliari, Sassari and Bologna (Italy), Koblenz (Germany), Leeds (Great Britain), Tenerife (Spain). He has also worked extensively with symphony groups such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Air Force Orchestra in Wales.

Among the most important engagements of Marco Zambelli in recent years are Verdi’s Luisa Miller and Rossini’s Tancred at the San Carlo Theater in Naples, Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Minnesota Opera, Verdi’s La Traviata at the La Fenice Theater in Venice, Bellini’s Norm at the Cincinnati Opera, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Nice Opera, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut at the Prague National Theatre, Rossini’s The Italian in Algiers and Puccini’s Turandot at the Toulon Opera, Mozart’s So Do Everyone at the Parma theater “Reggio”.

Marco Zambelli has repeatedly conducted solo concerts of such famous performers as Rolando Villazon, Sumi Yo, Maria Baio, Annick Massis, Gregory Kunde. Among the conductor’s latest engagements are Puccini’s Tosca at the Las Palmas Opera House, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in Dublin, Bellini’s Puritana in Athens, and Donizetti’s Caterina Cornaro in Amsterdam.

According to the materials of the Moscow Philharmonic