Giuliano Carella (Milan, 1956), Artistic Director of I Solisti Veneti, graduated in Conducting at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan, in Composition at the “Cesare Pollini” Conservatory in Padua and perfected his skills, under the guidance of Franco Ferrara, at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena where he obtained the Diploma of Merit in Conducting.
He has been a guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Frankfurt Opera, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Semperoper Dresden, the Hamburg State Opera, the Aalto Musiktheater Essen, the Opéra Comique Paris, the Marseille Opera, the Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg, the Opéra National de Lorraine, the Opéra de Nice, the Opéra de Nantes, the Opéra de Monte Carlo, the Opéra de Geneva, the Pierre Gianadda Foundation in Martigny, the Dutch Opera Amsterdam, the Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels, the Dei Kongelige Theater Copenhagen, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, the Teatro San Carlo Lisbon, the Opera North Leeds, the Edinburgh Festival, the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, the Romanian National Opera Timisoara, the New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, the Michigan Opera Detroit, the Opera Dallas, the Montreal Opera, the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, the Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile, New National Theater and Japan Opera Foundation in Tokyo.
In Italy he has conducted at the Verona Arena, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, the Teatro Regio in Parma, the Teatro Bellini in Catania, the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, the Teatro Verdi in Pisa, the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, the Teatro Sociale in Trento, the Teatro Comunale in Bolzano, at the Marialisa de Carolis Concert Institute in Sassari, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca and for the Musical Week of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.
He has recorded on CD the operas Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra and Adelaide di Borgogna by Gioachino Rossini, L'Esule di Granata by Jakob Liebmann Meyerbeer and Il Diluvio Universale by Gaetano Donizetti for Opera Rara; Francesca da Rimini by Riccardo Zandonai, L'Amore dei tre re by Italo Montemezzi, La Wally by Alfredo Catalani, Andrea Chenier by Umberto Giordano, Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi, Poliuto by Gaetano Donizetti, Il Pirata by Vincenzo Bellini, Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod and Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns, recorded at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, for NPS; Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi, La sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini and Il Giuramento by Saverio Mercadante for Nuova Era; The Last Day of Pompeii by Giovanni Pacini, Caritea, Queen of Spain by Saverio Mercadante, The Comic Duel, The Two Countesses, Proserpine and The Barber of Seville by Giovanni Paisiello for Dynamic, as well as a whole series of Recitals, in which he collaborated with Mariella Devia, Fiorenza Cedolins, Sumi Jo, Vesselina Kasarova and Jennifer Larmore for the RCA, Teldec, Erato, Sony and Bongiovanni companies.
He has recorded on DVD Turandot and Norma at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona for TDK, I Puritani at the De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam for Opera Rara, Turandot at the Arena di Verona for ARTE, Norma again with the Teatro Bellini in Catania for Dynamic, I Puritani for the Opera Royale de Wallonie in Liège and, in 2017, Meyerbeer's Le Prophéte at the Aalto-Theater in Essen for Oehms Classics.
In the context of his concert activity he has led prestigious orchestral groups including Philarmonia Orchestra London, LPO London Philarmonic Orchestra, Academy of St-Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Scottisch Chamber Orchestra, Orchester de Paris, Orchester de la Suisse Romande, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchester Des Saarländischen Rundfunks, Staatorchester Stuttgart, Frankfurter Oper und Museumorchester, Essener Philarmoniker, NPS Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, NPS Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Det Kongeliche Orchester Copenhagen, Odense Symfoniorkester, Aalborg Symfoniorkester, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra Moscow, Eesti Riiklik Sümfooniaorkester Tallin, Orchester Métropolitain de Montreal, Tokyo Philarmonic Orchestra, Rai Symphony Orchestra of Turin.
Artistic Secretary and Maestro with the obligation of conducting the orchestra at the Ente Lirico Arena di Verona from 1983 to 1986, he was subsequently Musical Director of the Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago (1986-1991), First Guest Conductor of the Fondazione Arena di Verona (1998-2002), Musical Director of the Opéra de Toulon (2002-2016). He taught at the Conservatories of Adria, Mantua, Brescia and at the “Felice Evaristo Dall'Abaco” Conservatory of Verona, as a tenured Professor for the Ensemble Music Course for String Instruments and Quartet.
In 2019, after the death of his Master, Claudio Scimone, he was appointed Music Director of I Solisti Veneti and in 2020 Artistic Director.
