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Artist Details Molino conducting the premiere of Requiem by Maderna Andrea MolinoCategory: ConductorsAndrea Molino's work as a conductor is virtuosic, full of energy and vitality. His programming is exciting and highly original. BiographyAndrea Molino, composer and conductor, was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich.
BIOGRAPHY 2000 to 2006 Andrea Molino was Artistic Director of Fabrica Musica. His multimedia music theatre CREDO, on ethnic and religious conflicts, was premiered under his musical direction in April 2004 at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe (DVD Naïve, Paris, 2006) and then performed at the Stazione Termini in Rome with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, at the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. In July 2005 it opened the Queensland Music Festival in Brisbane, Australia. His last project with Fabrica, WINNERS, on “winners and losers”, was premiered in July 2006 at the Brisbane Festival; the European Premiere followed in October 2006 at the Grande Salle of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. ReviewsAndrea Molino Conducts Macbeth: Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House …the performers’ talents are remarkable, Verdi’s soaring music is rendered with spirit and passion under conductor Andrea Molino, the Opera Australia chorus is in as fine a voice as we’ve heard it and Shakespeare’s tragedy gains a slightly different perspective in this co-production between Opera Australia and Opera de Montreal. Tom Pillans, Rouse Hill Times 12 Sep 2011
Peter McCallum, The Sydney Morning Herald 12 Sept 2011
Diana Simmonds, Stage Noise 12 Sept 2011
Time Out Sydney 12 September 2011
Conductor: Andrea Molino. Sydney Opera House. July 23. Of Mice and Men, Carlisle Floyd. In his 1970 operatic version of Steinbeck's book, American composer Carlisle Floyd's aim was to capture the novella's tautness and "spareness" in his music. He has succeeded admirably. Astringent dissonances, arresting woodwind and brass figures and passages of haunting, sparse textures spice up his melodic inspirations to create a score that cleverly blends poignant lyricism and dramatic intensity. Conductor Andrea Molino and the orchestra's well-judged tempos, crystalline textures, polished sonorities and sinuous phrasing realised both aspects of the music. Murray Black, The Australian, July 26, 2011
Andrea Molino and my beloved AO&BO ensure the score is read in a spritely, bright way, too. And, while accessible, it’s one that’s not without its challenges for audience and orchestra … The long and the short of it is it succeeds, admirably, on all levels: design; drama; musicality; meaning. Lloyd Bradford Syke, Curtain Call, August 1, 2011
REVIEWS World première of Bruno Maderna’s ‘Requiem’, la Fenice Orchestra and Chorus, La Fenice, Venice, November 2009 Andrea Molino is confirmed, or, better, consecrated as one of the most refined and sensitive interpreters of the modern and contemporary repertoire. His reading of Maderna's score is lucidly analytic and harrowingly passionate at the same time. The tempo choices are tight, the dynamics are pressing, the perfect cohesion between orchestra, choir and soloists is constant and successful. The Orchestra of the Fenice is sensational... Alessandro Cammarano, Opera Clic, 11.2009
Large orchestra, double choir, four soloists and three pianos. The hushed singing of the choir (directed by Claudio Marino Moretti) pleads for peace and salvation, while accompanied by an anguished bell toll from the timpani. Orchestra and Choir of the Fenice performed at their best, conducted by a truly admirable Andrea Molino. Sandro Cappelletto, La Stampa, 1.12.2009
Penetrating interpretation by Andrea Molino. Splendid Soloists Carmela Remigio, Veronica Simeoni, Mario Zeffiri and Simone Alberghini. Precise and intense performance by the Orchestra and Choir of Teatro La Fenice. ***** Dino Villatico, Repubblica, 21.11.2009
Energetic and well coordinated conducting by Andrea Molino, with a magisterial contribution of the Choir directed by Claudio Marino Moretti; the female voices and the bass were wonderful. An outstanding success. Mario Messinis, Il Gazzettino, 21.11.2009
The recovery of a vast symphonic and choral composition by Maderna, which was composed in 1946 and believed lost. Its profound value becomes a feast of music, on the occasion of its world premiere, comparable, for example, to the exhibition of a recovered Caravaggio. This feast happened the day before yesterday at the opening of the Fenice's concert season; a full house, a jubilant success. The young Maestro Andrea Molino took over with admirable readiness, taking advantage of the solid work of the Choirmaster Claudio Marino Moretti. Paolo Isotta, Il Corriere della Sera, 21.11.2009
The Fenice's audience remains silent for a moment, at the end of the performance of Bruno Maderna's Requiem, with the Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice conducted by Andrea Molino. Then, moved, patriotically proud, the applause begins. [...] The Requiem is alive; and Andrea Molino has total control of the whole, often musically fragmented work, featuring three pianos and the brass section in the foreground. Carla Moreni, Il Sole 24 Ore, 22.11.2009
Andrea Molino realizes the miracle of approaching with total confidence such a new and demanding score and at the end the success is extraordinary. Massimo Contiero, La Nuova Venezia, 22.11.2009
Effective and incisive interpretation by the solo voices and Andrea Molino... Fabio Zannoni, Il Giornale della Musica, 11.2009
The score, in which earthy passages alternate with suspended lyric islands and which finds in the choral parts the most precious moments, found valid interpreters in the Choir of Venice’s Theatre, prepared by Claudio Marino Moretti, and in the Orchestra guided with a firm hand by Andrea Molino. An indisputable success. Stefano Pagliantini, Musica, 12.2009 L.M., VeneziaMusica, December 2009
Andrea Molino Conducts new opera by Claudio Ambrosini at La Fenice Enrico Girardi, Corriere della Sera, 12.12.2010
Dino Villatico, Repubblica, 18.12.2010
Alessandro Cammarano, Opera Click, 10.12.2010
Andrea Molino conducts with extreme clarity and attention a score which requires a maximum amount of performing precision, he underlines the beauty of its sound quality. Ilaria Bellini, Teatro, 12.12.2010
Adolfo Andrighetti, Asterisconet, 12.2010
The Orchestra plays with great engagement, under Andrea Molino's firm hands. Mario Messinis, Il Gazzettino, 12.12.2010
Cesare Gallo, Il Giornale di Vicenza, 12.12.10
Massimo Contiero, Il Mattino, 12.12.2010
Maristella Tagliaferro, Leggo, 14.12.2010
World première of Bruno Maderna’s ‘Requiem’, la Fenice Orchestra and Chorus, La Fenice, Venice, November 2009
Large orchestra, double choir, four soloists and three pianos. The hushed singing of the choir (directed by Claudio Marino Moretti) pleads for peace and salvation, while accompanied by an anguished bell toll from the timpani. Orchestra and Choir of the Fenice performed at their best, conducted by a truly admirable Andrea Molino. Sandro Cappelletto, La Stampa, 1.12.2009
Dino Villatico, Repubblica, 21.11.2009
Mario Messinis, Il Gazzettino, 21.11.2009
Paolo Isotta, Il Corriere della Sera, 21.11.2009
Carla Moreni, Il Sole 24 Ore, 22.11.2009
Massimo Contiero, La Nuova Venezia, 22.11.2009
Fabio Zannoni, Il Giornale della Musica, 11.2009
Stefano Pagliantini, Musica, 12.2009
DRESDEN, FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC – CLOSING CONCERT, OCTOBER 12, 2008 The conductor was the Italian Andrea Molino […] whose extensive experience with contemporary music and experimental projects allowed him to conduct Louis Andriessen's highly speculative composition "De Stijl" with great understanding and control. Peter Zacher, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten
VENICE, TEATRO LA FENICE: SIGNOR GOLDONI – OPERA WORLD PREMIERE, SEPTEMBER 21, 2007 Luca Mosca\'s music, directed by a marvellous conductor, Andrea Molino…Lorenzo Arruga, Il Giornale Andrea Molino conducts with perfect rhythmic virtuosity …the Orchestra of La Fenice is brilliant and transparent at once …the choir is impeccable. The audience is particularly warm for a contemporary opera… Mario Messinis, Il Gazzettino
NUREMBERG, POCKET OPERA COMPANY, HOFER SYMPHONIKER, JULY 2000: FIRST STAGE PRODUCTION OF HEINER GOEBBELS\' SURROGATE CITIES ... Andrea Molino controls even the heavier parts of the orchestral Suite \"Surrogate Cities\" with dance-like lightness.... Frieder Reininghaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
... The conductor Andrea Molino with his enormous sound apparatus fully enjoyed the emotional ferocity of Heiner Goebbels\' score … From today on, Surrogate Cities. Nürnberg is a legend. ... Dieter Stoll, Abendzeitung (München)
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2002 WITH THE BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: HEINER GOEBBELS, SURROGATE CITIES ....The previous evening\'s concert featured a very different sort of epic, Surrogate Cities by the multidisciplinary composer Heiner Goebbels. More impressive than the unclassifiable yet visionary work was the performance itself, directed with authority and ease flow by a stand-in-conductor, Andrea Molino. ... John Allison, The Times
...In between came one of the riskier events, Heiner Goebbels\' Surrogate Cities. ... Andrea Molino was a late substitute conductor, but you would never have guessed it from the way he galvanised the BBC Scottish into the punch and drive that are de rigueur for this kind of piece. ... David Fanning, The Daily Telegraph
CLASSICAL MUSICBRISBANE, OPENING OF THE QUEENSLAND BIENNIAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC 2003, WITH JOCELYN B. SMITH, DAVID MOSS, AND THE QUEENSLAND ORCHESTRA: HEINER GOEBBELS SURROGATE CITIES ...The audience ... admired the intense concentration of Italian conductor Andrea Molino and the 87-strong Queensland Orchestra...Elizabeth Silsbury, The Advertiser...the youthful athleticism of Italian maestro Andrea Molino brought authority and order to what could have been a perilously unruly exercise. ... another triumph, which will be vigorously debated for years to come... Vincent Plush, Australian Monday
VENICE, INAUGURATION EVENING AT THE THE VENICE BIENNALE\'S MUSIC FESTIVAL, SEPTEMBER 28, 2005: HEINER GOEBBELS: SURROGATE CITIES_VENICE ...Splendid: the conducting by Andrea Molino and the performance of the Orchestra della Fenice. ... Mario Messinis, Il Gazzettino
KARLSRUHE, BADISCHES STAATSTHEATER, BADISCHE STAATSKAPELLE, APRIL 30, 2004: ANDREA MOLINO: CREDO – WORLD PREMIERE ... the almost endless, euphoric final applause was well deserved by Molino and the brilliantly prepared Badische Staatskapelle...Badische Neueste Nachrichten... he [Andrea Molino] motivated the Staatskapelle to a highly concentrated, powerful sound and he was an excellent coordinator of the different musical sequences... Pforzheimer Zeitung
...Andrea Molino conducts his own demanding score full of energy and vitality... Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND BIENNIAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, JULY 19, 2005: ANDREA MOLINO CREDO ....The sheer scale and logistics of Andrea Molino\'s Credo: The Innocence of God would give any music producer an ulcer. With full, amplified symphony orchestra, more than a dozen solo musicians, vocalists and actors onstage, extensive audio-visual projections on three large screens, plus three traditional bands beamed in live by satellite from Istanbul, Belfast and Jerusalem, the capacity for the whole production to fall apart was ever-present. Extraordinarily, with the composer himself calmly conducting in the middle of it all, and a full house looking on in wonder, nothing went awry. Notch up another production triumph for Terracini, who surely now must rank as the most virtuosic of Australian festival directors. ... Through bringing together musicians located around the world to play the same piece in real time, Credo is as convincing technically as it is musically or politically. ... Martin Buzacott, The Australian |
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