Alessandro Palumbo

Conductor, pianist, and composer, he has made significant debuts at major Italian and European theatres. Among the most recent are his appearance at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo with Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo in November 2025; his return to Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp to open the season in August 2025, a theatre where he conducted a new production of Ernani in 2022; and his engagement at the Verdi Festival in October 2022, where he conducted Rigoletto at the Teatro Verdi in Busseto. In December 2021 he led the Spanish première of Saverio Mercadante’s Francesca da Rimini at the Auditorio de Tenerife, while in October of the same year he made his symphonic debut with the Orchestra of the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, where he was invited again in 2025. In January 2019 he conducted La bohème at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. In October 2020 he conducted Donizetti’s Requiem, again at the Auditorio de Tenerife, in the opening concert of the new season dedicated to the memory of the victims of the pandemic, and in November of the same year he returned to the Teatro Sociale di Como, together with the distinguished British director Graham Vick, for a new production of Mozart’s Zaide. He made his operatic debut in 2014, conducting Massenet’s Don Quichotte with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife. From that moment on, his relationship with Ópera de Tenerife grew considerably, becoming Music Supervisor of the Theatre and Assistant to the Music Director for all productions, working alongside conductors such as Evelino Pidò, Jader Bignamini, and Massimiliano Stefanelli, and artists including Mariella Devia, Stefania Bonfadelli, Yolanda Auyanet, Riccardo Zanellato, Marianne Cornetti, Yijie Shi, and Roberto de Candia. Since 2014 he has appeared at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, the Teatro Sociale di Como, the Teatro Comunale di Sassari, the Auditorio de Tenerife, the Stadthalle in Wuppertal, the Royal Opera House in Muscat, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. In 2009 he was awarded a scholarship to specialise as Maestro Collaboratore at the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo of the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, under the guidance of Maestro Alberto Zedda.