Massimo Zanetti

In the last season, in addition to his return to the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari and with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, he continued his more than twenty-year presence at the  Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and his long collaboration with the Monte-Carlo Opera, where he conducted a new production of Don Carlo.

Zanetti also inaugurated the 70th Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, on the centenary of the composer's death, with a new production of Le Villi and Edgar, directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, proposed in their first version and as a diptych.

Highlights of recent operatic  seasons include I Due Foscari with Placido Domingo at the Monte Carlo Opera, a new production of Madama Butterfly at the Sydney Opera House, Don Giovanni, Traviata, Boheme, Fanciulla del West and Don Carlo at the Berlin Staatsoper, Carmen and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro alla Scala.

In the past years, Massimo Zanetti has cooperated with the NCPA Beijing, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Bayerische Staatsoper Muenchen, Semperoper Dresden, Chicago Lyric Opera, Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Paris Opéra, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Regio Parma, Opera di Roma, Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Regio Torino, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Opèra Royale de Wallonie, Teatro Real de Madrid, ABAO Bilbao, among many others.

Massimo Zanetti’s discography includes The Verdi Album  with Sonya Yoncheva (Sony Classical, 2018), Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Decca, 2013),  Rigoletto and I Vespri Siciliani  as part of the ‘Tutto Verdi’ project with Teatro Regio di Parma (Unitel Classica, 2008 and 2010). He has also recorded  Flavio Testi’s Saül  with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Naïve, 2004).