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 in Vilnius with Carmen and at the Wexford Opera Festival
with Pagliacci.
In the symphonic field, he recently conducted the rarely performed Messa da Requiem by Giovanni
Bottesini in Cuneo and Saluzzo, and opened the 2022 Habana Clásica Festival with the Cuban
premiere of Nicola Sani’s “Riflessioni sull’Indifferenza”, leading the Orquesta de Cámara Música
Eterna in the presence of the composer. During the same festival, he also conducted the Orquesta
Juvenil Amadeo Roldán in a program featuring the overture to Verdi’s La forza del destino,
Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet. Other orchestras with which he
has collaborated include the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Orchestra Sinfonica
Gioachino Rossini di Pesaro, Orchestra ContrArco di Milano, Ensemble APM di Torino, and the Spazi
Musicali String Orchestra.
In the 2023/2024 season, he served as assistant conductor to Sesto Quatrini for Madama Butterfly at
the Opéra National de Lyon, Verdi Requiem and Granados’ Goyescas in Vilnius, I Capuleti e i
Montecchi and Il turco in Italia at the Opera Carlo Felice in Genoa, and Norma at the Teatro Regio in
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. In 2026, he once again worked alongside Quatrini on the new production of Manon
Lescaut at the Opéra National de Lyon Festival.
Between 2023 and 2025, he assisted Francesco Lanzillotta on I Lombardi alla prima crociata, which
inaugurated the XXIII Festival Verdi in Parma, Roberto Devereux at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia,
and Otello at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari.
From 2019 to 2020, he collaborated with Donato Renzetti on productions including Nabucco at the
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 enjoyed a distinguished career as a trombonist,
graduating with honors from the Conservatorio “Luca Marenzio” in Brescia. He then went on to
study at the CNR in Paris with Jacques Mauger, David Maquet and Jean-Jacques Herbin, and
continued his training with Ian Bousfield, former principal trombone of the London Symphony
Orchestra and the Wiener Philharmoniker. He served as principal trombone of the Orchestra
Giovanile Luigi Cherubini led by Riccardo Muti, and collaborated with several Italian orchestras,
including the Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice, Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, I Solisti Veneti
under Claudio Scimone, and the Donizetti Opera Orchestra.
He founded the Mascoulisse Quartet, with which he performed over four hundred concerts
worldwide between 2007 and 2021, contributing to the promotion of the trombone repertoire and
to the training of young musicians through the Masterbrass Academy, which he also 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

• Debut at Rossini Opera Festival
• Debut in Teatro Regio di Torino