Dante Santiago Anzolini
Last update: 24/04/2019
Dante Santiago Anzolini is a highly versatile artist and widely appreciated for his outstanding interpretations of late Romantic and contemporary music.
He is very much at ease with even the most complex musical scores and his ability of bringing them to life is exceptional.
Dante Anzolini has an equally strong passion for the major works of the Romantic opera repertoire.
A strong advocate of contemporary music and young composers, Dante Anzolini has already conducted several world premieres in the fields of opera and concert. He has also worked extensively with composer Philip Glass, conducting, among others, the world premiere of his opera 'The White Raven' at the World Expo '98 in Lisbon, Portugal and the European premiere of his Symphony N° 8 in 2006 with Bruckner Orchester Linz.
Anzolini further gave his most successful debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, with a production
of Glass’ opera ‘Satyagraha’ in 2008.
Dante Anzolini started his career in Europe in 1993, when he became Solorepetitor and Kapellmeister
at the Bonn Opera, Germany, after which he was Kapellmeister of the Stadttheater Bern,
Switzerland.
From 1998 to 2006, he was music director of the Symphony- and Chamber Orchestra of the MIT
in Boston, from 2005 to 2009 music director and chief conductor of Teatro Argentino Opera / La
Plata (Argentine).
In addition, Dante Anzolini has worked with ensembles like the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the
Bruckner Orchester Linz, the symphony orchestras of Vienna, Munich, Bochum, Basel, Bern, Asturias,
Granada and Valencia, the Brussels Radio-Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers
Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo.
At Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, he conducted an acclaimed production of Kurt Weill's 'The Seven
Deadly Sins' featuring Ute Lemper, at the Landestheater Linz (Austria), he did several operaand
ballet-productions (‘Otello’, ‘Coppelia’, ‘Un ballo in maschera’, ‘Cindarella’, ‘Il trovatore’), and
in 2010, he gave his debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein with Morton Feldman’s opera ‘Neither’
in a ballet production by Martin Schlaepfer.
Most recent projects include Dante Anzolinis returns to the Metropolitan Opera (‘Satyagraha’),
to the Landestheater Linz (‘Les dialogues des Carmélites’, “Tosca”) and to the Deutsche Oper
am Rhein for a new ballet production featuring works by Mozart, Strawinsky, Ligeti and Vasks,
as well as his debut with Philharmonische Staatsphilharmonie Mainz.
In addition to his work as a conductor, Dante Anzolini also appears as a composer and arranger
of orchestral pieces. His arrangement of Arnold Schoenberg's 'Variations for Orchestra' (op.31)
for solo piano, published by Belmont and distributed worldwide by Universal Edition, is the first
ever written piano version of the monumental orchestral piece.
His latest opus, “Pricipio Passionis” saw its world premiere in September 2011 in the frame of
Linz’ “Ars Electronica” – Festival with Bruckner Orchestra Linz.
Dante Anzolini was born in Berisso, Argentina, of Italian and Chilean parents. Apart from piano
and composing, he studied conducting, first in Argentina, later at the Yale University School of
Music, USA (with Eleazar de Carvalho), as well as in master classes with Lorin Maazel, Erich
Leinsdorf, Kurt Sanderling, Seiji Ozawa and Dennis Russell Davies. He also studied harpsichord,
violin, viola, oboe and percussion.