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The Italian conductor, Gianluca Marcianò, studied piano at the Florence Music Academy. At the same time, he graduated in high school and then obtained a degree in Political Science from the University of Pisa. He completed his piano studies with Joaquin Achucarro and with Paolo Restani, and Massimiliano Damerini for contemporary music. He has won numerous national and international competitions for young musicians and premiered in recital when he was 10. As a substitute teacher, he has worked in some of the most prestigious Italian organizations, including the Teatro Regio in Parma and the International Competition of Sacred Music Blessed Pius IX in Rome.
Gianluca Marcianò's first conducting position was as Repetiteur/Assistant conductor of SNG Opera Ljubljana (November 2002-2006). He made his debut in 2006 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Since that moment on, he has built very strong ties with the Opera Houses of Oviedo, Minsk, and Ljubjana, as well as in the UK (English National Opera, Grange Park Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, and Longborough Opera Festival).
Gianluca Marcianò's operatic engagements in the UK since 2010 include Jonathan Miller’s production of La bohème and Anthony Minghella’s production of Madama Butterfly (English National Opera); Otello, La Traviata, Tosca, Falstaff, Un Ballo in Maschera, Rigoletto, W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Alzira, Nabucco, Don Carlo, Eugene Onegin, Camille Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila, Madama Butterfly, I Puritani, and The Queen of Spades (Grange Park Opera). Puccini’s Edgar (Scottish Opera); Die Zauberflöte, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and La traviata (Longborough Festival Opera); and Nabucco, Manon Lescaut, La traviata, La Favorite and Alzira (Chelsea Opera Group).
Between 2011-2014, Gianluca Marcianò was the Music Director of the Tbilisi State Opera, conducting La Forza del Destino, Cavalleria Rusticana, Nabucco, Attila, Il Trovatore, W.A. Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto, and Aida, while later, between 2017-2019 he was the Principal Conductor of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. Elsewhere he has conducted Nabucco (Ópera de Oviedo); and Tosca and Die Fledermaus (Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, Minsk; La traviata, Madama Butterfly and La Bohème (Lithuanian National Opera); Pagliacci in Moscow; Tosca (Festival Pucciniano, Torre del Lago) Olimpiade (Teatro di San Carlo); Nabucco (SNG Opera Ljubljana); Nabucco, La traviata, Turandot, Georges Bizet's Carmen, La Cenerentola and Il barbiere di Siviglia (Croatian National Theatre Zagreb); and La traviata (Prague State Opera). In the 2022-2023 season he conducts Manon Lescaut at Opera House of Cagliari, La Traviata at Aalto Musiktheater Essen, and Tosca at Teatro del la Maestranza de Sevilla.
As an orchestral conductor, Gianluca Marcianò has conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, Polish Baltic Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic, Georgian Philharmonic, Tokyo New City Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Oviedo Filarmonia, Moscow City Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Classica de Madeira, State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, BBC Concert Orchestra, The World Orchestra, Voivodina Symphony Orchestra, Macau Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Filarmonica Toscanini, Orchestra della Toscana among many others.
Praised by the SundayTimes for “his unfailingly theatrical and idiomatic conducting”, Gianluca Marcianò is the Principal Conductor of Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto and Matera, Italy (since November 2021), Principal Guest Conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra (since January 2021), Artistic Director of Al Bustan Festival (since 2011), and Artistic Director of Chelsea Opera Group (since October 2021). He founded the Suoni dal Golfo Festival in his hometown overlooking the Gulf of Poets, renamed Lerici Music Festival in 2020. In 2017, he receives the Honorary Citizenship of the City of Lerici for his achievements and in 2018 has been awarded the Pavlova Award.
During his career, Gianluca Marcianò has successfully collaborated with many of the greatest singers and instrumentalists of our times, among which Sir Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson, Elina Garanča, Sumi Jo, Joseph Calleja, Simon Keenlyside, Sondra Radvanovsky, Olga Peretyatko, Danielle de Niese, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Arabella Steinbacher, Anna Tifu, Francesca Dego, Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Steven Isserlis, Boris Andrianov, Maria-João Pires, Gloria Campaner, David Geringas, Khatia Buniatishvili, Sergei Krylov, Nina Kotova, Giovanni Sollima, Sergei Nakariakov, Denis Kozhukin, Alexander Buzlov, Boris Andrianov, Alison Balsom, Valentina Lisitsa, Andreas Ottensamer.
His discrography includes the album “Momento Immobile”, recorded for Rubicon Classics, with soprano Venera Gimadieva and Hallé Orchestra. |
