I Barocchisti

Trained in Zurich, Paris and Cremona, Diego Fasolis began his career as a concert organist, performing brilliant complete works by Bach, Buxtehude, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Franck and Liszt, before turning to conducting. Since 1993, he has been at the helm of the Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera and since 1998 of the I Barocchisti ensemble. He has conducted more than 250 works from the Renaissance to the 20^th century, many of which he has brought to the fore. He was awarded an honorary doctorate for this in 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI in recognition of his commitment to sacred music. A regular guest at the Salzburg Festival, he has conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Musikverein with the Vienna Concentus Musicus and the Arnold Schönberg Choir. More recently, La Scala commissioned him to create an orchestra playing on period instruments, which he then conducted in Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno. In 2017 he also conducted Tamerlano with Plácido Domingo. Recent and future engagements include: La finta giardiniera at La Scala and in Shanghai, L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Berlin Staatsoper, La sonnambula at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Paër’s Agnese and Così fan tutte at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Dorilla in Tempe at La Fenice, Il turco in Italia at La Scala, Cherubini’s Lo sposo di tre, e marito di nessuna at the Florence Opera, Vivaldi’s Farnace at the Teatro Malibran in Venice, Handel’s Alessandro with the Kammerorchester Basel in Göttingen, Paris and Basle. In 2019, Diego Fasolis was nominated in the category ‘Conductor of the Year’ at the International Opera Awards.

At the Opéra de Lausanne: Faramondo (2009), Rinaldo (2011), Farnace (2011), L’Artaserse (2012), Dorilla in Tempe (2014), Die Zauberflöte (2015), Ariodante (2016), La clemenza di Tito (2018), Orpheus and Eurydice (2019), Meyerbeer’s Gli amori di Teolinda (2019), Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (2022) and Alcina (2022).