About

Emanuele Quaranta is a young Italian conductor praised for his versatility, technical preparation, and musical sensitivity. His international operatic debut took place in 2024 at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Vilnius with Carmen and at the Wexford Opera Festival with Pagliacci.

In the symphonic field, in 2025 he conducted, among others, the rare Messa da Requiem by Giovanni Bottesini in Cuneo and Saluzzo as part of the “CONsonanTE” concert series. Previously, he opened the Havana Clásica Festival with the Cuban world-premiere of Nicola Sani’s Riflessioni sull’Indifferenza, leading the Chamber Orchestra Música Eterna and with the composer present. At the same festival, he also conducted the Juvenil Amadeo Roldán Orchestra in a program featuring the overture from Verdi’s La forza del destino, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet. Other orchestras he has worked with include the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Orchestra Sinfonica Gioachino Rossini di Pesaro, Orchestra ContrArco di Milano, Ensemble APM di Torino and Spazi Musicali String Orchestra.

During the 2023–2024 season, he served as assistant conductor to Sesto Quatrini for Madama Butterfly at the Opéra National de Lyon; Verdi’s Requiem and Granados’s Goyescas in Vilnius; Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Rossini’s Un turco in Italia at the Opera Carlo Felice, Genoa; and Norma at the Teatro Regio, Parma. He was also artistic advisor for the post-production of Indomita (Pentatone, 2024), the first solo album by soprano Eleonora Buratto, conducted by Sesto Quatrini and recorded at the Opera Carlo Felice.

He was assistant to Francesco Lanzillotta for Verdi’s I Lombardi alla prima crociata, the opera which opened the 2023 Festival Verdi in Parma, and for Roberto Devereux at Palau de Les Arts, Valencia.

From 2019 to 2020, he collaborated with Donato Renzetti on productions including Nabucco at Teatro Regio in Turin, La Riconoscenza at the Rossini Opera Festival, Perosi’s Transitus Animae, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in Genoa.

He earned his degree in orchestral conducting from the APM in Saluzzo in 2021 under Donato Renzetti. Before turning his focus to conducting, he had a distinguished career as a trombonist: a graduate with honors from the Conservatory of Brescia, he went on to study at the CNR in Paris with Jacques Mauger, David Maquet and Jean-Jacques Herbin and continued his studies under Ian Bousfield, former principal trombone of both the London Symphony Orchestra and Wiener Philharmoniker. He served as principal trombone of the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini under Riccardo Muti and subsequently collaborated with several Italian orchestras, including the Opera Carlo Felice orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, I Solisti Veneti led by Claudio Scimone and the Donizetti Opera orchestra.

He founded the Quartetto di Brescia, with which he performed over 400 concerts worldwide between 2007 and 2021, championing trombone repertoire and supporting young musicians through the Masterbrass Academy which he co‑founded and which remains active today.

Emanuele Quaranta: leading from a human perspective

INTERVIEW – TRIBUNA DE LA HABANA
Tras la pasión de Emanuele Quaranta
Tribuna de La Habana se acercó a la obra y proyección de uno de los directores de orquesta invitado al Festival Habana Clásica

“The conductor, Emanuele Quaranta, elicited a sensitive performance from the members of the Wexford Festival Opera, which captured the score’s colourful contrasts, successfully highlighting the heavy darkness that pervades large sections of the drama. He also ensured a reading with plenty of energy that promoted the drama’s quickly changing nature and built the underlying tensions. He was also very supportive of the relatively inexperienced cast.”

– Operawire

• Cover conductor to Maestro Francesco Lanzillotta for Roberto Devereux at Palau de les Arts, Valencia
• Debut at Rossini Opera Festival