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Roberto Abbado was born on 30 December, 1954 in Milan, Italy, is an Italian conductor. Discover Roberto Abbado's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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Milan, Italy |
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Italy
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Roberto Abbado Height, Weight & Measurements
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Roberto Abbado Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Roberto Abbado worth at the age of 69 years old? Roberto Abbado’s income source is mostly from being a successful conductor. He is from Italy. We have estimated Roberto Abbado's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Roberto Abbado (born 30 December 1954, Milan) is an Italian opera and symphonic music conductor.
Currently he is an Artistic Partner of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
He also attended the last summer course of Hans Swarowsky in Vienna in 1975.
In 1975, Piero Farulli funded the "Vincenzo Galilei" Orchestra and Chorus at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa to perform Bach Cantatas.
Mario Gusella recommended Abbado to Piero Farulli in order to conduct the orchestra in a series of concerts.
In 1977, the musicians of Accademia di Santa Cecilia Symphony Orchestra asked Abbado to conduct a concert in Rieti, while he was still studying at Accademia, for a fellow student a privilege never to be.
In the same year, he won the Second Prize at the Malko Competition for young conductors in Copenhagen, promoted by Danish Radio and Television.
In 1978, he conducted concerts with leading Italian and Scandinavian orchestras such as Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai di Milano, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra.
His first appearance as an opera conductor, aged 23, was in Macerata, Arena Sferisterio in 1978, in a new production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, featuring Renato Bruson, Cesare Siepi and Ilva Ligabue.
He conducted the season-opening night at Teatro La Fenice in December 1979 with a new production of Rossini's Il Turco in Italia.
In 1980, he conducted Verdi's Aida at Teatro Massimo in Palermo: one of the performance was attended by the Intendant of Wiener Staatsoper Seefelner, who immediately engaged Mr. Abbado.
In 1981, he conducted the world première of Flavio Testi's Il sosia at Piccola Scala in Milan.
In 1982, he conducted Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opernhaus in Zurich with Edita Gruberova and Araiza.
In the summer he conducted at Edinburgh Festival Rossini's La pietra del paragone staged by Eduardo De Filippo with Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala.
He made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in 1984 conducting Donizetti's Don Pasquale, in a production featuring Sesto Bruscantini in the title role and Lucia Aliberti.
In 1985, he made his Paris debut with Orchestre National de France and Yo Yo Ma as soloist.
He has conducted many leading orchestras in Europe, including Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Orchestre de Paris, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Dresden Staatskapelle, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
In the same house he also conducted the world première of Testi's Riccardo III in 1987, Ponchielli's La Gioconda in 1997, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 2006, the world première of Fabio Vacchi's Teneke in 2007 and Rossini's La donna del lago with Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona and Juan Diego Flórez in 2011.
In 1987, he was appointed music director of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in Chile, a position he held till 1989.
In 1989, he made his debut at Münchner Opernfestspiele of Bayerisches Staatsoper with Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur with Mirella Freni and Plácido Domingo.
He also conducted there new productions of La Traviata and Aida, furthermore Manon Lescaut, Don Pasquale, Carmen and Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges.
From 1991 to 1998 he served as Chief Conductor of Münchner Rundfunkorchester (Munich Radio Orchestra).
In 1993, he toured in Japan with Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
In 1994, he made his debut at Metropolitan Opera in New York with Adriana Lecouvreur.
In 1995, he made his debut at Opéra Bastille with Lucia di Lammermoor featuring Mariella Devia.
He conducted his Carnegie Hall debut in 1996 with The Orchestra of St. Luke's, further, he also conducted there the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.
He also conducted there Giordano's Fedora with Freni and Domingo (new production) in 1997, Verdi's La Traviata in 2000, Verdi's Ernani in 2008.
In the USA he also conducted operas in San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Houston.
In 1998 he conducted a new production of Verdi's I vespri siciliani at Wiener Staatsoper, staged by Herbert Wernicke.
In the same year, he made his debut at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducting Rossini's Le comte Ory.
He also conducted in Florence Verdi's Attila and I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Henze's Phaedra and Donizetti's Anna Bolena.
In 2015 he has been appointed music director of Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain.
From 2018 he's Music Director of the Festival Verdi in Parma.
Previously he held the position of Chief Conductor of Münchner Rundfunkorchester (Munich Radio Orchestra).
Born into a musical family, Abbado is a son of the pianist and composer Marcello Abbado, for more than twenty years Director of Conservatorio di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan.
His grandfather was the violinist and teacher Michelangelo Abbado and his uncle the conductor Claudio Abbado.
In his teens, Roberto studied at Conservatorio "G. Rossini" in Pesaro and then piano with Paolo Bordoni and composition with Bruno Bettinelli at Milan Conservatory.
He studied conducting with Mario Gusella in Milan and Franco Ferrara at Teatro La Fenice in Venice and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
