Orchestra

Orchestra

19th century Italian music was dominated by a "melodrama pain" as Gian Francesco Malipiero wittily called it. The lack of a chamber and symphonic tradition in Italy delayed the appearance of symphony orchestra and opera conductors.

In melodrama, the first violin orchestra leader has existed for a long time, with eminent examples like Alessandro Rolla and his pupil Eugenio. It is only in 1854, with Alberto Mazzuccato, that the first real conductor stands up on a podium with a baton.

Mazzuccato started the glorious dynasty of the Teatro alla Scala conductors, with members like Franco Faccio (champion, against Verdi's will, of a symphonic life of the orchestra), Leopoldo Mugnone, Edoardo Mascheroni and, finally, Arturo Toscanini.

Franco Faccio had the honour to conduct the première of Othello in 1887, Edoardo Mascheroni that of Falstaff in 1893, while Toscanini, after a long battle, transformed the Teatro alla Scala from private theatre to Autonomous Board (1921/22 season).

The orchestra international prestige has been continuously enhanced, thanks to the constant presence of great conductors like Toscanini and Victor de Sabata, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan, Guido Cantelli and Leonard Bernstein, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Carlo Maria Giulini, Carlos Kleiber and Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim and Riccardo Chailly – the international repute of the Orchestra has only grown.

Made out of 135 musicians, the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, considered one of the world’s best orchestra for opera productions, has reached a prestigious international position also for its symphony activity.

The main characteristic of the Orchestra is its capacity to obtain a uniform and distinguished sound, typical of the Teatro alla Scala style, handed down from generation to generation.

The versatile and soft sound and the fast setting up of the opera timbre balancing are characteristic of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra.

Members of the Orchestra

Francesco Manara (leader)
Francesco De Angelis (leader)
Laura Marzadori (leader)
Daniele Pascoletti (sub-leader)
Eriko Tsuchihashi (sub-leader)
Andrea Leporati
Rodolfo Cibin
Corine van Eikema
Andrea Pecolo
Gianluca Turconi
Elena Faccani
Fulvio Liviabella
Dino Sossai
Duccio Beluffi
Agnese Ferraro
Kaori Ogasawara
Enkeleida Sheshaj
Suela Piciri
Lucia Zanoni
Damiano Cottalasso
Evguenia Staneva
Indro Borreani

Pierangelo Negri*
Anna Longiave
Anna Salvatori
Emanuela Abriani
Gabriele Porfidio
Stefano Dallera
Roberto Nigro
Alexia Tiberghien
Stefano Lo Re
Antonio Mastalli
Francesco Tagliavini
Roberta Miseferi
Estela Shesi
Leila Negro
Olga Zakharova
Andrea Del Moro

*Principal

Simonide Braconi*
Giuseppe Nastasi
Luciano Sangalli
Giorgio Baiocco
Maddalena Calderoni
Francesco Lattuada
Carlo Barato
Joel Imperial
Giuseppe Russo Rossi
Matteo Amadasi
Thomas Cavuoto
Eugenio Silvestri
Marcello Schiavi
Sabina Bakholdina 

*Principal

Sandro Laffranchini*
Massimo Polidori*
Alfredo Persichilli*
Martina Lopez
Gianluca Muzzolon
Gabriele Zanardi
Simone Groppo
Cosma Beatrice Pomarico
Massimiliano Tisserant
Tatiana Patella
Gabriele Garofano
Leonardo Duca
Francesco Martignon

*Principal

Giuseppe Ettorre*
Francesco Siragusa*
Emanuele Pedrani
Alessandro Serra
Attilio Corradini
Gaetano Siragusa
Roberto Benatti
Omar Lonati
Roberto Parretti
Claudio Nicotra
Michelangelo Mercuri
Giorgio Magistroni

*Principal

Marco Zoni*
Andrea Manco*
Giovanni Paciello (ottavino)
Massimiliano Crepaldi
Francesco Guggiola

*Principal

Pedro Pereira De Sà*
Augusto Mianiti
Gianni Viero

*Principal

Fabrizio Meloni*
Aron Chiesa*
Christian Chiodi Latini
Stefano Cardo (bass clarinet) 
Antonio Duca (small clarinet)

*Principal

Gabriele Screpis*
Nicola Meneghetti
Maurizio Orsini
Marion Reinhard (contrabasson)

*Principal

Giovanni Emanuele Urso*
Roberto Miele
Claudio Martini
Salvatore La Porta
Stefano Curci
Piero Mangano 
Giulia Montorsi

* Principal

Francesco Tamiati*
Marco Toro*
Gianni Dallaturca
Nicola Martelli
Valerio Vantaggio

* Principal

Daniele Morandini*
Giuseppe Grandi

* Principal

Javier Castaño Medina 

 

Luisa Prandina*
Olga Mazzia*

*Principal

Andrea Bindi*
Maxime Pidoux*

*Principal

Gianni Massimo Arfacchia
Giuseppe Cacciola
Gerardo Capaldo
Francesco Muraca

Lorenzo Bonoldi

SENIOR TEACHER
James Vaughan

RÉPÉTITEURS
Beatrice Benzi - Paolo Berrino - Nelson Calzi - Paolo Spadaro Munitto

STAGE MUSICAL ASSISTANTS
Antonella Marotti - Ilaria Morotti - Stefano Salvatori – Marco Borroni - Caterina Denti - Federico Forti - Valentina Verna

HEAD OF MUSIC GROUPS ON STAGE
Bruno Nicoli 

PROMPTERS
Dario Grandini - Loris Perego

PREPARATION OF ELECTRONIC LIBRETTOS
Roberto Perata - Stefano Colnaghi - Renato Principe

Vittorio Sisto

Alejandro Magnin
Werther Martinelli 
Edmondo Valerio