bio
Gianluca Martinenghi is the Deputy Artistic Director of the Teatro Regio di Torino, Italy, and prior to this, he was the Principal Conductor of the Orchestra of the National Theatre of Macedonia.
He studied conducting with Donato Renzetti and Giacomo Zani, piano under Piero Rattalino and composition with Bruno Bettinelli.
He started his career at the Teatro Regio di Torino as the music director, which acquainted him extensively with the operatic repertoire and allowed him to assist renowned musicians like Gianandrea Gavazzeni and Yuri Ahronovitch.
Subsequently, he joined Teatro Massimo di Palermo, where he worked in artistic planning and as a conductor.
He also served as the Artistic Director of the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, collaborating with top-tier artists.
His conducting engagements embraces significant theaters and orchestras, including the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Arena di Verona, Teatro Bellini di Catania, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Opera Ireland, Palm Beach Opera, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Sydney Opera House, Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, Orquestra Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, Dubrovnik Festival, the Taormina Opera Festival, the NCPA of Beijing, the Seoul Arts Center, Budapest Philharmonic among others.
For consecutive years, he participated in the opening of the Tenerife Festival with Verdi’s Falstaff and Puccini’s Tosca, appointed as the principal guest conductor of the festival by director Giancarlo Del Monaco.
He has been critically acclaimed for his CD recordings of Puccini Arias and Verdi Duets with soprano Amarilli Nizza and baritone Roberto Frontali, as well as a tribute to Enrico Caruso with the Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona for EMI.
For the Fondazione Arena di Verona he also conducted Mascagni’s seldom-performed Iris, marking a significant achievement praised by both the press and the public.