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| | Polastri Roberto | | direttore d'orchestra |  
| Roberto Polastri completed his musical studies with Lina Volpi Marzotto for the piano and with Zoltan Pe'ko for the conducting. He has been Assistant Conductor of Riccardo Chailly for many years and with many important Italian orchestras, like the Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma. |
| He made his public conducting debut with the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. This was to be the start of a long collaboration with the orchestra. Opera productions in Bologna include |
| Madama Butterfly, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Pasquale, Don Carlo, Pelléas et Mélisande, Gianni Schicchi, I Pagliacci. His many orchestral and chamber concerts at the Teatro Comunale include: Chamber Symphony and Pierrot lunaire by Schoenberg with Sarah Leonard, chamber concerts by Berg and by Ligeti, Apollo by Stravinsky, Divertimento by Bartok, Mahler?s Fourth Symphony, using the Schoenberg orchestration, Integrales by Varèse, as well as many première performances of works by contemporary Italian composers such as Aralla, Cappelli, Caprioli and Solbiati. |
| Roberto Polastri was also invited to the Wexford Opera Festival in Ireland where, in 1995, he conducted Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle and, in 1996, La Parisina and the Christus Oratorio by Liszt. |
| In 1998 he conducted Don Carlo at the Teatro Regio di Parma. Later that year he conducted Il turco in Italia at the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli and a concert with the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and, in December, he led the four sacred pieces by Verdi with the Orchestra Sinfonica G. Verdi di Milano. From then on, Roberto Polastri has been a regular guest of the Verdi Orchestra, where he led such pieces Brahms's Second Symphony, Schubert's Sixth Symphony, the Seven Early Songs by Berg with Sonia Ganassi, Beethoven's and Ciaikovsky's violin concertos, The soldier's tale by Stravinsky, Brahms?s Piano Quartet op.25, using the Schoenberg orchestration. |
| In March 2001, Roberto Polastri debuted at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Ravel's Bolero, and at the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania with Wagner's Valkyrie. |
| In May of the same year, he was back to the Teatro Comunale di Bologna for May Night by Rimsky-Korsakov, and he returned on the podium of the Orchestra Sinfonica Verdi di Milano to conduct pieces by Liszt, Dallapiccola, Ives and Bartok. |
| Later that year, he was invited back to the Opera di Roma to conduct I due Foscari , as well as symphony concerts, and in Lecce with Beethoven's Eight Symphony and Bartok's Viola Concerto. |
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