Principal guest conductor of the Orchestra Mozart since 2009 and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2013, and associate conductor of the Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela since 2013, Diego Matheuz was from 2011 to 2014 principal conductor of the Teatro La Fenice, where he directed Rigoletto, La traviata, La bohème, Carmen, The Rake’s Progress, the 2012 and 2014 New Year’s Eve concerts and numerous symphony concerts, among which a Tchaikovsky cycle. Born in Barquisimeto (Venezuela) in 1984, he studied violin and orchestra conducting within José Antonio Abreu’s Venezuelan Sistema. He made his international debut in 2008 in Puerto Rico with the Orquesta Simón Bolívar and in Italy with Claudio Abbado’s Orchestra Mozart; in 2009 he replaced Antonio Pappano on a tour of the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia and in 2010 he made his debut on the opera scene with Rigoletto at the Teatro La Fenice. He has since conducted some of the main orchestras in Italy (Rai di Torino, Maggio Fiorentino, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Verdi) and around the world (Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Birmingham Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Philharmoniker Hamburg, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Česká filharmonie, Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Netherlands Radio Philarmonic, Filharmonikerna Stockholm, Wiener Kammerorchester, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Philharmonia Zürich, Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Saito Kinen, NHK of Tokyo).