Last month, at less than a weeks notice, Andrea Molino was asked to conduct the world première of Bruno Maderna’s recently rediscovered ‘Requiem’ at la Fenice. Riccardo Chailly was to conduct but was forced to step down due to ill health.

Below are some of the comments from the press:

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