About Alberto Zedda: Italian Conductor (1928 – 2017)
Alberto Zenda (January 2, 1928 – March 6, 2017) was an Italian conductor and musicologist specializing in Italian repertoire of the 19th century.
Alberto Zedda was born in Milan, Italy, where he completed his music and humanities education and completed his studies at the Academy of Music in Cremona.
In 1957 he won the Italian International Radio and Television Conducting Competition and has since been invited to perform with important Italian institutions (La Scala, Santa Cecilia, Florence Concertgebouw, Rome Teleradio Orchestra, Turin, Milan, Naples…) Performed together in Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Poland, Russia, Israel, USA, China, Japan…
In addition to his symphonic activities, Alberto Zenda has also achieved outstanding achievements in opera: La Scala, San Carlo, Phoenix, Massimo di Palermo, Bologna, Turin area, Coventry Garden, Mariinsky, Vienna, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Helsinki, Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Oviedo, Bilbao, A Coruña, Moscow, Berlin , Munich, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Prague, Osaka, Tokyo….
Records produced under his direction include opera as well as symphony and chamber music.
He teaches at the Piacenza Conservatory (Orchestral Practice), the Academy of Osimo (Music Linguistics) and the University of Urbino (Music History). Founder and Director of the Rosignana Academy of Pesaro.
He has been devoting part of his time to musicology, editing critical versions of critically acclaimed operas, oratorios and cantatas, with a particular focus on Rossini and the first half of the 19th century and early Baroque repertoire. Alberto Zedda has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Rossini Foundation since its inception.
He wrote Divagazioni Rossiniane, published by Ricordi in Milan in 2012 and translated into Spanish, German and English.
He is Principal Guest Conductor of the Italian Repertoire at the New York City Opera; Music Director of the Martina Franca della Valle D’Itria Festival; Artistic Advisor of the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival and A Coruña Mozart Festival; Fano Baroque Festival Artistic Director; Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro and Artistic Director of Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Teatro La Scala in Milan.
Alberto Zeda was a former officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, a member of the Polish “Order of Honor for Culture”, a correspondent of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Seville, and honorary chairman of the Deutsche Rossini Company. He holds an honours degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Macerata.
CD catalog
- Rossini – Tancred – Ewa Podleś, Sumi Jo, Stanford Olsen, Pietro Spagnoli, Anna Maria di Micco, Lucrezia Lendi, Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense (Naxos, 1994)
- Bellini – Beatrice Ditenda – Mariana Nicolesco, Stefania Toczyska, Vincenzo La Scola, Piero Cappuccili, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Monte Carlo Orchestra (Sony, 1986)
- Rossini – L’italiana in Algeria – Marianna Pizzolato, Lorenzo Regazzo, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruno de Simone, Virtuosi Brugensis, Transylvania National Philharmonic Choir, Cluj (Naxos, 2010)
- Rossini – la gazala de la – Maria José Moreno, Kenneth Tarver, Lorenzo Regazzo, Bruno Praticò, Virtuosi Brugensis, Classic Chamber Choir, Brno (Naxos, 2015)
- Rossini – Cinderella – Joyce DiDonato, José Manuel Zapata, Bruno Praticò, Paolo Bordogna, SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserlautern (Naxos, 2004)
- Rossini – Ladona Drago – Sonia Ganassi, Maxim Mironov, Ferdinand von Bothmer, Marianna Pizzolato, Olga Peretyatko, SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserlautern (Naxos, 2004)
source
- Roland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveau, Opera House GuideFayad, 1986.
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