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Q & A: Fabio Luisi on Presenting the Ring Cycle with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

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Fabio Luisi is one of the world’s greatest conductors who has performed many great symphonic works and operatic repertoire. His work has been recognized through many awards including Italy’s Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana and Commendatore della Stella d’Italia, and Genoa’s Grifo d’Oro, the highest honor given by the city of Genoa. He has served as music director at the Zurich {…}

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Fabio Luisi Awarded Premio del Belcanto ‘Rodolfo Celletti’

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The Fondazione Paolo Grassi and the 50° Festival della Valle d’Itria di Martina Franca have announced that Fabio Luisi will be awarded the 2024 Premio del Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti.” The award will be given to the conductor following the August 2 performance of Bellini’s “Norma.” The award will be given to Luisi “for the appreciated artistic merits of a luminous {…}

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Antonio Pappano, Simon Rattle, Barbara Hannigan & Fabio Luisi Among Signatories Petitioning Against the Canceling of Russian Artists

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(Credit: Karen Almond / Metropolitan Opera) One hundred and nineteen artists and conductors are signing a petition to end the war and end the boycott against boycotting Russian artists. The petition, which is signed by such prominent artists as Antonio Pappano, Mark Elder, Simon Rattle, Franz Welser-Möst, Cornelius Meister, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Barrie Kosky, Matthew Rose, Fabio Luisi, Barbara Hannigan, and {…}

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Fabio Luisi & Dallas Symphony Team Up with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Fundraising Concert

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(Credit: Koichi Miura/Metropolitan Opera) The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and Music Director Fabio Luisi (Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship) have announced a joint concert with members of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The collaboration event will benefit the MET Orchestra Musicians Fund and the DFW Musicians COVID-19 Relief Fund and it will be {…}

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Fabio Luisi Named Principal Conductor of NHK Symphony

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The NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo has named Fabio Luisi its Principal Conductor. The conductor will take on the new post starting September 2022 and will remain with the orchestra for  at least the next three years. Luisi debuted in Japan in 2001 and is currently the Music Director at the Dallas Symphony and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. He is {…}

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Dallas Symphony Extends Fabio Luisi’s Contract

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(Credit: Koichi Miura/Metropolitan Opera) The Dallas Symphony has announced that it has extended the contract for its Music Director Fabio Luisi for another five years, throughout the 2028/29 concert season. Luisi began his first season as Music Director in the current 2020/21 season after a year of holding the title Music Director Designate. Luisi also holds the positions of General {…}

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COVID-19 Forces Fabio Luisi Out Of Concertgebouw’s 2020 Christmas Matinee

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(Credit: © DR / Opéra National de Paris official website) The Royal Concertgebouw has announced that the famed conductor Fabio Luisi will not lead the orchestra during the 2020 Christmas Matinee on Dec. 25, 2020. Maestro Luisi has tested positive for COVID-19 and has to spend 10 days in quarantine. Additionally, tenor Piero Pretti had to cancel the performance due {…}

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Fabio Luisi Extends Contract With Danish National Symphony Orchestra

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(Credit: Monika Rittershaus) The Danish National Symphony Orchestra has announced that it will extend the contract of its Chief Conductor Fabio Luisi until 2026. Luisi will lead the Danish National Symphony Orchestra season’s opener on September 3, 2020 in a concert featuring soprano Elsa Dreisig and mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. “With Fabio Luisi {…}

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Fabio Luisi, Tamara Mumford & Krassimira Stoyanova Lead Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Redesigned Fall 2020 Season

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(Credit: Barbara Luisi) The Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced on Friday that it will present a new curated fall season of short concerts with smaller ensembles playing to a maximum audience of 75 people per performance. The redesigned fall season at the Meyerson Symphony Center, with a maximum seating capacity of 2,602, will begin on Sept. 4. The fall season will {…}