Michele Mariotti has been Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma since 2022. Winner of the 36th Abbiati Prize as Best Conductor, he is a regular guest at many of the world’s leading opera houses and festivals, including La Scala in Milan, the Paris Opéra, the Wiener Staatsoper, London’s Royal Opera House, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Verdi Festival in Parma, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and Teatro Real in Madrid. He has conducted orchestras such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Orchestre National de France, Münchner Symphoniker, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bamberger Symphoniker, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Filarmonica della Scala, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. From 2008 to 2018 he served as Principal and then Music Director of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, where he led dozens of productions, including Graham Vick’s La bohème, which won the 2018 Abbiati Prize for Best Production. Recent highlights include Il barbiere di Siviglia and Norma at the Wiener Staatsoper, Moïse et Pharaon at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Maometto II and Otello at Teatro San Carlo, Macbeth in Valencia, La bohème in Paris, Guillaume Tell at La Scala, Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival (Abbiati Prize 2023), and in Rome Dialogues des Carmélites, Aida, Mefistofele, Tosca, Peter Grimes, and Simon Boccanegra, as well as the Trittico Ricomposto project, West Side Story at the Caracalla Festival, and a tour of Japan with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Chorus and Orchestra. In the 2025/26 season he conducts the New Year’s Concert at La Fenice, appears with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Haydn Orchestra, and performs at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Teatro San Carlo. Abroad he will lead Aida at the Paris Opéra and Luisa Miller at the Wiener Staatsoper.