Fabio Luisi was named Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in September 2011. He made his Met debut in 2005 leading Verdi’s Don Carlo and has since returned to the company for performances of Die Ägyptische Helena, Simon Boccanegra, Turandot, Elektra, Le Nozze di Figaro, Hansel and Gretel, Ariadne auf Naxos, Rigoletto, Tosca, Lulu, and Das Rheingold. This past summer he joined the company for a tour of Japan leading Don Carlo, La Bohème, and a concert with the MET Orchestra in Tokyo. In May 2011 he conducted the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with soloist Natalie Dessay. This season Maestro Luisi appears at the Met conducting new productions of Siegfried, Don Giovanni, and Massenet’s Manon and a revival of La Traviata. He also leads the Met Orchestra in a concert at Carnegie Hall with mezzo-soprano Christine Rice and pianist Richard Goode.

A native of Genoa, Italy, Maestro Luisi is currently chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony and artistic director of the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. He served as general music director of the Dresden State Opera and Dresden Staatskapelle from 2007 to 2010, artistic director of the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig from 1999 to 2007, music director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande from 1997 to 2002, and chief conductor of Austria’s Tonkünstler Orchestra from 1995 to 2000. He has appeared with many of the world’s most renowned orchestras and opera companies, including the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras, NHK Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, the Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Berlin’s Deutsche Oper and State Opera. He made his Salzburg Festival debut in 2002.
        

 —September 2011