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Guido Maria Guida

Guido Maria Guida

BIO:

Guido Maria Guida graduated in piano, composition and orchestra-conducting at the Conservatories of Turin and Milan. He attended post-graduate courses at the “Ecole Normale” of Paris then at the “Accademia Chigiana of Siena” with Franco Ferrara .

Since 1982 to 1994 he has worked as musical assistant of Giuseppe Sinopoli, taking a part to several symphonic and opera productions, as at the Metropolitan Opera House, the Covent Garden, the Deutsche Oper of Berlin, the Nazionaltheater of Munich, also collaborating with the New Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra and the Stuttgard Radio Symphony Orchestra.

He has also taken a part to many Sinopoli’s recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon and Philips labels.

He worked as “Studienleiter” at the Festspielhaus of Bayreuth from 1985 to 1994.

He conducted many orchestras, for instance RIAS and RSO of Berlin, the radioorchestra of Stuttgard, the orchestra of Bonn Opera-House, the ASKO Ensemble of Amsterdam, the Toho Gakuen of Tokyo, the RAI radio-orchestras of Turin, Milan and Rome, the National Symphonic Orchestra of RAI (Italian radio-television), the Sicilian Symphonic Orchestra of Palermo, the orchestras of “Teatro Regio of Turin”, of “Arena di Verona” Opera-House, of “Carlo Felice” in Genoa, of Cagliari Opera-House, the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Turin, the Symphonic Orchestra of Bologna, the orchestra of La Plata Opera-House (Argentine), the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lublin (Poland), the Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City, the Ofunam von Mexico City, the Orchestra of Xalapa (Mexico), the Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean Chamber Orchestra, the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the Strings Ensemble of "Teatro alla Scala" of Milan

He has conducted for several international festivals, as “Horizon” of Berlin, “MITO Settembre Musica” of Turin, “Orestiadi” of Gibellina in Sicily, “Biennale” of Venice, the “International Cervantino Festival ” of Mexico, the International Tamaulipas Festival (Mexico) and the Festival del Centro Historico (Mexico City)

In Summer 2003 he took part with the Piemonte Youth Orchestra in the important Young Euro Classic Festival of Berlin and Stuttgard.

In January 1995 he carried out a tour in Japan with the RAI National Symphonic Orchestra. He conducted in South Korea and furthermore in the Chandler Pavillon of Los Angeles, performing a gala with Sumi Jo.

He performed R. Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” with great success. He has performed “Samson et Dalilah” with Placido Domingo and Carlo Cossutta, “ Lucia di Lammermoor”, “Un ballo in maschera” and “Elisir d’amore” with Ramon Vargas, “Simon Boccanegra” with Juan Pons, “Don Giovanni” with Justino Diaz, “Boris Godunov” with Anatoly Kotscherga, recitals with Youngok Shin and Francisco Araiza.

He recorded two compact-discs with Giuseppe Giacomini for label Bongiovanni and furthermore for labels Capriccio, Ricordi, Fonit-Cetra, Disc-Montaigne and Urtext.

From 1996 to 1998 he was the principal conductor in Bellas Artes Opera-House of Mexico-City. He performed with Mexico City Bellas Artes Opera Daniel Catan’s “Florencia en el amazonas”. In the same theatre he performed in September 1999 “Salome” of R. Strauss.

In March 1999 he inaugurated the Teatro Colòn de Buenos Aires’ season with great success of press and public, conducting “La Traviata”, with June Anderson. He was present again in October 2000 conducting “Il Trovatore”. In July 2000 he has performed A. Berg’s “Wozzeck” at the Bellas Artes Opera-House of Mexico City with outstanding success. In the same Opera-House he conducted in February 2001 “La Traviata”.

From 2003 to 2006 he conducted R. Wagner’s "Der Ring des Nibelungen" in the Mexico City Opera House of Bellas Artes getting enthusiastic success. He made with success of critics and public his debut in Houston Opera House conducting the Daniel Catan’s opera “Salsipuedes”. Recently he did a Wagner gala with Jane Eaglen.

In May 2012 he conducted in Bellas Artes Opera House R. Strauss' "Die Frau ohne Schatten".

Since 2008 he is artistic director of "Stefano Tempia" Choral Academy of Turin, the eldest choral institution of Italy, founded in 1875.

In 2009 he was awarded the prize “Pannunzio Torino Libera-Valdo Fusi”

In October 2013 he conducted the italian Ensemble Nuove Musiche doing a tour in USA for the Verdi's celebration in important halls of Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago and Boston. The project was supported by the great Verdi musicologist Philip Gossett.

Recently he conducted Gounod's “Romeo et Juliette” with Maria Katzarava and Saint-Saëns' “Samson et Dalilah” in Monterrey (Mexico), where he went back in november 2016 for a new production of Verdi's "Macbeth" with Carlos Almaguer in the main role. He performed the Monteverdi’s "Orfeo" in the Bruno Maderna version at the Bellas Artes Opera House of Mexico City in March 2017. He will conduct again in November 2017 in the opera house of Monterrey "Werther" of Massenet

He studies the symbolic and esoteric aspects of Wagner's works. He has made numerous conferences around these topics.

Coming soon he will conduct R. Wagner's “Lohengrin” at the Nikikai Opera of Osaka.

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PRESS:

Valkyrie at Bellas Artes Opera House
The musical part was up to the greatness of the stage proposal, thanks to the impeccable and meticulous work of Guido Maria Guida conducting the Bellas Artes Orchestra, so good as he did last year performing “Das Rheingold”.
-LA JORNADA Mexico City Angel Vargas 3/11/2004

Valkyrie at Bellas Artes Opera House.
I think that the results are on the top of every expectation. Guido Maria Guida confirms his great value as conductor of Bellas Artes Orchestra, giving a strong and tender lecture of this difficult score.
-REFORMA Mexico City Lazaro Azar 3/11/2004

Rheingold at Bellas Artes
Opera House
In order to conduct the musicians to the level of the complicated score, nobody was better than Guido Maria Guida, whose experience in Bayreuth Theatre made wonders with our musicians. For instance I can mention the clearness with which he let play the horns, the acuteness of his colours - even in the pianissimos, the most difficult thing, - the way with which he realized spectacular crescendos and he did the leitmotivs, everything gave me an incomparable impression, which reached its height during the transition to the third scene.
-REFORMA Mexico City Lazaro Azar 3/20/2003

…it is remarkable to find in a conductor such a great abnegation, such a desire of taking care of all the details of chorus and orchestra…
-LA STAMPA Turin Italy Armando Caruso 7/16/2002

In the second part of the concert, the quality of the scoring of Guido Maria Guida came out. Under his baton the Philharmonic Orchestra of Turin has achieved a balance between winds and strings that we can hear seldom
-LA STAMPA Turin Italy Paolo Gallarati 5/23/2002

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Repertoire

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