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| | Alessandrini Rinaldo | | direttore d'orchestra |  
| Rinaldo Alessandrini is one of today?s leading figures in early music, specializing in the repertories of Monteverdi and Vivaldi. He has conducted a vast portion of the baroque repertoire, often presenting his own revisions of works. His most recent successes have been the first performance of his revised edition of Pergolesi's Missa Romana at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma, and the first modern performance of the revised edition of Vinci's cantata La contesa dei Numi at Palazzo Altemps in Roma. |
| He is active not only as the chief conductor and musical director of his period instruments orchestra «Concerto Italiano», but also works regularly with other orchestras. In this regard he has led Händel's Semele at the 1996 Spoleto Festival, the same year making his debut on the podium of the Maggio Musicale Orchestra and Choir of Florence, conducting a concert of sacred works by J.S. Bach at the Basilica di Santa Croce. In December 1997 he made his UK operatic debut at the Welsh National Opera of Cardiff conducting a new production of L'incoronazione di Poppea which was also presented in London for the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in the 1997/8 season. In 1998 he made his UK symphonic debut at the St. David's Hall in Cardiff, conducting the WNO in a program devoted to Händel, Salieri and Mozart, he conducted Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda in Köln, Brussels, Paris and on a tour in Norway, Jommelli's L'isola disabitata in Rome. In 1999 he conducted Pergoles's La serva padrona with the Freiburger Barockorchester and Händel?s Alcina at the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona, as well as a new production of Hasse's Artaserse at the Lugo Opera Festival. |
| Among his recent engagements include several concerts in Paris (works by Bach, Vivaldi, Marcello), Lille, Montpellier, Nantes (Bach), Bordeaux and Rome (Vivaldi, Pergolesi with Sara Mingardo), Brussels (Händel, Vivaldi, Mozart with Sara Mingardo), Amsterdam, Santiago, London, Pontoise, Ambronay, Montecarlo, Florence (with the Orchestra della Toscana), and on tour in Japan (Pergolesi's Stabat Mater) and South America (Corelli, Torelli, Vivaldi), as well as Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Milan, Brussels, London and on tour in Mexico, Le nozze di Figaro in Cardiff, L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Oper Frankfurt and at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Zaide at the Festival Mozart in La Coruña, Amadigi at the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, L'Olimpiade at the Festival International Musique de Beaune and Giulio Cesare at the Teatro Real in Madrid. |
| He was awarded the «Gramophone Award 1998» for his Cd release of Monteverdi's Ottavo libro dè madrigali vol. I, with Concerto Italiano ensemble. His recording of Monteverdi?s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Il ballo delle ingrate was awarded the «Choc de l'année du Monde de la Musique 1999» prize. Having made an in-depth study of the 16th and 17th century Italian repertoire, Rinaldo Alessandrini has conducted his vocal and instrumental ensemble «Concerto Italiano» in the most important European theaters and festivals: the Festival of Early Music of Utrecht (where since 1993 he been invited early), the Flanders Festival (where he worked in 1992/3/4), the Festival of Herne, the London Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music (1997 and 1999), the Festival International in Beaune (1999) and in Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Washington (Library of Congress, 1999), Tel Aviv (1995) and Edinburgh (1996 and 1999). |
| Highlights of Rinaldo Alessandrini's future engagements include Le nozze di Figaro at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, Zaide at the Festival Mozart in La Coruna, Giulio Cesare in Bologna and Amadigi at Edinburgh Festival. |
| The quality of his work is demonstrated in the many recordings he has made for the French label «Opus 111», as well as for other important record companies. He has received numerous important international prizes for his recording work including, Villanesche, moresche ed altre canzoni by Orlando Di Lasso (Diapason d?or 1995), Arie Musicali by Girolamo Frescobaldi (Cini Award 1995, Diapason d'or 1994), Madrigali a quattro voci by Luca Marenzio (Diapason d'or 1994), the Secondo, Quarto, Quinto, Sesto and Ottavo libro de? madrigali by Claudio Monteverdi (Prix Caecilia 1993, Grammophone Award 1994, Deutscher Schallplattenpreis 1994, Diapason d'or 1993 and 1994, Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros 1995, Grand Prix de l'Académie du Disque Lyrique 1995, Grammophone Award 1998) and an anthology of string concerts by Antonio Vivaldi (1989) and J.S. Bach (for harpsichord and strings), and Alessandro Scarlatti's Cantata per la notte di Natale, Antonio Vivaldi's Concerti e Cantate (Diapason d?or 1997). His latest three releases with the Concerto Italiano for Opus 111 are the Gloria RV589 and Magnificat RV611of Vivaldi, Pergolesi's and Scarlatti's Stabat Maters, and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Il ballo delle ingrate of Monteverdi. |
| Other significant performances by Rinaldo Alessandrini have included La Calisto by Cavalli at the Teatro Ghione in Rome in 1984 and Catone in Utica by Leonardo Vinci at the Teatro Rossini in Lugo in 1987. He also conducted Amadigi by Händel at the Festival of Urbino (1995), Aci, Galatea e Polifemo by Händel at the Rai Auditorium of Naples(1993), Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno by Händel at the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Roma (1994), Monteverdi?s Orfeo at the Escorial Festival in Spain (1993), Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda on tour with the Orchestra Regionale Toscana (1993). In the spring of 1996 he presented several Vivaldi concerts at the Italian Festival at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sponsored by the Italian Institute of Culture of New York in agreement with the Columbia University. |
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