Michele Mariotti

Michele Mariotti is the Musical Director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma since 2022 and Principal Conductor of the Rai National Symphony Orchestra from October 2026.

Awarded the 36th Abbiati Prize as Best Orchestra Conductor, Michele is regularly invited by the main Italian and international theatres and festivals, including the Teatro alla Scala, the Paris Opéra, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House in London, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Rossini Opera Festival, the Metropolitan in New York, the San Carlo in Naples, the Verdi Festival in Parma, the Amsterdam Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Los Angeles Opera, the Wexford Festival, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Mariotti has conducted the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the Orchestre National de France, the Münchner Symphoniker, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchester Köln, the Filarmonica della Scala, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, to name a few.

He regularly works with renowned stage directors like Mario Martone, David McVicar, Emma Dante, Davide Livermore, Damiano Michieletto, Robert Carsen, Simon Stone, Michael Mayer, Herbert Fritsch, Benedict Andrews, Tobias Kratzer, Johannes Erath, Claus Guth, Deborah Warner, Romeo Castellucci, Shirin Neshat.

From 2008 he was Principal Conductor, and then Musical Director until 2018, of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, where he has led numerous concerts and dozens of opera productions, including La Bohème directed by Graham Vick that won the Music Critics Award “Franco Abbiati” for best show in 2018. He has also conducted the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna on tours covering various Italian cities, Tokyo, Moscow, and Paris.

Some of his most recent engagements include Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Norma and Luisa Miller at the Wiener Staatsoper, Moïse et Pharaon at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Rossini’s Maometto II and Verdi’s Otello at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Macbeth at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Bohème and Aida at the Paris Opera, Guillaume Tell at La Scala, Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival (44th Abbiati Prize), the 2026 New Year’s Concert at Teatro La Fenice, and Dialogues des Carmélites, Aida, Boito’s Mefistofele, Tosca, the Trittico Ricomposto, Peter Grimes, Simon Boccanegra, Stabat Mater, Lohengrin, Tancredi at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, at the Caracalla Baths in Rome with Bernstein’s West Side Story, and the tour in Japan with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Rome Opera. He was recently on the podium of the Gürzenich Orchester Köln at Cologne’s Philharmonie, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the George Enescu Philharmonic, the Tonkünstler Orchestra at the Vienna’s Musikverein and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.

In the 2026/27 season, he is engaged in symphonic concerts in Italy and across Europe on the podium of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Orchestra Haydn and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his work at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (with The Rake’s Progress and La cenerentola), he conducts Un ballo in maschera in Vienna, Otello at the Metropolitan in New York and Aida staged by Robert Carsen at the Royal Opera House in Londra.

Michele Mariotti has completed his humanistic studies and has obtained a diploma in Composition at the Rossini Conservatory in his hometown, Pesaro, where he also studied conducting under Manlio Benzi. At the same time, he obtained a diploma in Conducting at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese under Donato Renzetti. In 2026 he was elected Effective Academician of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

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