Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli
Conductor
In January 2020 he won the special Golden Opera award for the New Generation of the Opera Oscars, awarded to him by the Italian Confederation of the Opera Houses, as one of the most promising young conductors in the Italian operatic firmament, with particular reference to Puccini’s music, for which he received the title of “Puccini Ambassador in the World” in 2024, on the occasion of the celebrations for the centenary of his birth.
He is currently ordinary professor of orchestra conducting at the “Gesualdo da Venosa” Conservatory of Potenza.
Artistic and musical director of the National Opera and Ballet Theater of Tirana from 2022, since 2022 he has been guest conductor of the National Opera and Ballet Theater of Varna – Bulgaria, Since 2023 he has been musical director of the Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra, since 2016 he has been artistic director of Sacrum Festival and of the International Midsummer Festival – Tagliacozzo Festival.
He was the main guest conductor of the Puccini Festival Foundation from 2016 to 2018.
Born in L’Aquila in 1985, at the age of 22 he also graduated in Law, and today he is a lawyer trainee in Rome. he has also a PHD in Criminal Law and a PHD in Canonic Law with a specialization in Latin language.
Graduated with full marks and honors in orchestral conducting under the guidance of Marco Angius and also in composition and choral conducting at the “Tartini” Conservatory of Trieste, he studied Experimental Composition with Mauro Cardi and Singing with Maria Chiara Pavone, graduating from the Conservatory of Music “Casella “of L’Aquila.
He has been the guest conductor of the best Italian orchestras such as (in Italy) Orchestra del Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Orchestra Regionale della Toscana (ORT), Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro di Verdi di Salerno, Orchestra Filarmonica B. Bartoletti (ex Regio di Parma), Orchestra Sinfonica Metropolitana di Bari, Orchestra Filarmonica Pucciniana di Torre del Lago, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese (ISA), Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce e del Salento (OLES), Orchestra del Teatro Cilea di Reggio Calabria, i Solisti del Reale Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Orchestra di San Remo (abroad) Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, Saarbrücken State Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Athens State Orchestra, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO), Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Lettonia, Orchestra del Teatro Nazionale di Belgrado, Orchestra di Stato del Messico, Orchestra di Stato di Istanbul, Orchestra di Stato di Tessalonica – Grecia, Orchestra dell’Opera Nazionale Romena di Cluj – Napoca, Orchestra Nazionale di Mongolia, Orchestra Nazionale Radio e TV di Ucraina, Orchestra Naz. Radio e TV Serbia (RTS), Orchestra Opera e Balletto di Azerbaijan, Orchestra di Stato di Sri Lanka, Orchestra dell’Opera di Plovdiv – Bulgaria, Orchestra Filarmonica di Brasov – Romania, Orchestra Nazionale di Stara Zagora – Bulgaria, Orchestra dell’Opera di Tbilisi – Georgia, Orchestra dell’Opera di Astrakan – Russia, Orchestra dell’Opera di Tirana – Albania, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Bucarest, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Krasnojarsk, Orchestra Sinfonica di Nicaragua, Orchestra Sinfonica della Galizia, Orchestra da Camera di Reus – Barcelona, Orchestra del Teatro Nazionale Polacco di Lodz, Kosovo Philharmonic Orchestra.
For classic music, he worked with the best international singers such as Jessica Pratt, Saioa Hernandez, Ermonela Jaho, Anna Pirozzi, Krassimira Stoyanova, Nino Machaidze, Maria Agresta, Amarilli Nizza, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Vincenzo Costanzo, Francesco Meli, Charles Castonovo, Saimir Pirgu, Amadi Laga, Josè Cura, Valeria Sepe, Dimitra Theodossiou, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Kiril Manolov, Gëzim Myshketa, Anna Maria Chiuri, Donata D’Annunzio Lombardi, Fiorenza Cedolins and for symphonic music with Ilya Grubert, Michele Campanella, Stefan Milenkovich, Ettore Pagano, Gianluca Littera, Sandro Ivo Bartoli, Alessandro Quarta, Giuseppe Albanese, Stefano Bollani, Petar Pejcic.
For pop music he worked with the best international singers such as Ricky Martin, Anastacia, Il Volo, Amii Stewart, Noemi, Arisa, Antonella Ruggiero.
He conducted hundred Italian and international great opera productions and several ballet productions such as: “Norma” di Bellini, “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” e “Cenerentola” di Rossini, “La Bohème”, “Turandot”, “Tabarro”, “Suor Angelica”, “Gianni Schicchi”, “Madama Butterfly”, “Le Villi” e “Tosca” di Puccini, “Rigoletto”, “Nabucco”, “Aida”, “La Forza del Destino”, “Otello”, “Trovatore”, “La Traviata”, “Attila”, “Macbeth”, “Don Carlo” di Verdi, “Andrea Chenier” di Giordano, “Don Giovanni” e “Nozze di Figaro” di Mozart, “I Pagliacci” di Leoncavallo e “Cavalleria Rusticana” di Mascagni, “Lucia di Lammermoor” di Donizetti e “Carmen” di Bizet.
He conducted all the Puccini’s production.
He was for long time ballet conductor. In his repertoire: “Giselle”, “Swan Lake”, “Don Chisciotte”, “Sleeping Beauty”, Romeo and Giulietta”, “Carmina Burana”, “The rite of spring”, “the nutcracker”.
He has been guest conductor several times at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago where, in 2016, he conducted “La Bohème” and then “Turandot” for the 90th anniversary of the opera, in 2018 the “Trittico” for the 100th anniversary and in 2024 “Madama” Butterfly for the 120th anniversary of the opera. In the same year he was the protagonist of a world tour focused on the works of Giacomo Puccini which began in Abu Dhabi with Francesco Meli and Valeria Sepe.
Guest conductor of the Belgrade National Opera and Ballet Theater from 2017 to 2019, in 2017, he made his debut with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO), in 2019 with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, and in 2021 with the Saarland State Orchestra (“das Saarländische Staatsorchester”).
Since 2019, he has been the artistic and musical director of the International Opera Festival “OperaViva” at the Baku Opera and Ballet Theatre in Azerbaijan.
In 2021, he made his debut at the Megaron in Athens with the Athens State Orchestra.
In 2023 he made his debut on the podium of the Gewandhaus Hall with the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra. In 2025, he made his debut as conductor of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra of Israel. In November 2025, he conducted the institutional concert of the Jubilee with the world premiere of D. Bartolucci’s oratorio “The Tempest on the Lake,” and in December 2025, he conducted the Opera Gala of the International Opera Awards at the Rome Opera House.
He recorded Turandot at the Gran Teatro Puccini for the 90th anniversary of the Opera produced by PARAMAX FILM and MR PUCCINI by CINZIA TEDESCO with the Orchestra of the Puccini Festival Foundation for Sony Classic.
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