INTRODUCTION
Praised for “his talent and great theatrical instincts”, Davide Levi has worked with some of the finest orchestras and opera companies in Europe, including Oper Leipzig, Malmö Opera, Garsington Opera, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Opera North, Opera de Tenerife, English Touring Opera, The Royal Ballet, I Pomeriggi Musicali, the Hebrides Ensemble, the Britten-Pears Symphony Orchestra. Feeling at ease both in the orchestra pit and on the concert platform, Davide has a wide knowledge of both symphonic and operatic repertoire.
RECENT AND FUTURE HIGHLIGHTS
In March 2021, Davide made his debut at the Opera de Tenerife conducting Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, a production he also conducts at the Teatro Regio di Parma and the Teatro Massimo di Palermo in the 2022/2023 season. He also made his debut with the Malmö Opera Orchestra, where he will be returning next season for a symphonic concert. In June 2023 Davide led the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra in the Toulouse National Opera & Ballet production of Don Quixote.
In the 2023/2024 season, Davide conducts a New Year’s concert w. Jönköping Sinfonietta.
Davide is the current Sir Charles Mackerras Junior Fellow in Conducting, a position that led him to conduct several projects including collaborations with the Philharmonia Orchestra and, in 2022, with Welsh National Opera.
He was also awarded the 2021/2022 Kurt Weill/Julius Rudel Conducting Fellowship, working on a production of Lady in the Dark at the Volksoper in Vienna.
BIOGRAPHY
Despite the circumstances, 2020 saw successful concerts in London featuring Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, Schumann’s Manfred Overture and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. He assisted Pablo Heras Casado in Madrid, conducting the orchestra of the Escuela Superior Reina Sofia in a concert featuring Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Triple Concerto, and Giuseppe Finzi at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari on a production of The Merry Widow.
Projects that had to be postponed or were canceled due to the pandemic include assisting Ivan Fischer on his tour with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Budapest Festival Orchestra and assisting Tobias Ringborg on a production of Verdi’s Un Giorno di Regno at Garsington.
Fluent in five languages, opera has become Davide’s natural habitat; recent highlights include performances of Cavalleria Rusticana, La Traviata, Cosi fan tutte, Carmen and La Cambiale di Matrimonio. He assisted GMD Ulf Schirmer on Oper Leipzig’s highly acclaimed production of La Fanciulla del West and the entire Ring Cycle in 2018/19, for which he was called back in the following season.
Passionate about working with young musicians and bringing music to communities, Davide has conducted workshops for emerging composers with the Orchestra of Opera North and the Hebrides Ensemble.
OPERA
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Beethoven, L.v. | Fidelio* | |
Bellini, V. | Norma | |
Berkeley, L. | A dinner engagement | |
Bizet, G. | Carmen | |
Cimarosa, D. | Il matrimonio segreto | |
L’impresario in angustie | ||
Donizetti, G. | Don Pasquale | |
Elisir d’amore | ||
Gounod, C. | Faust* | |
Humperdinck, E. | Hänsel und Gretel | |
Jessen, E. | Syllable | |
Lehar, F. | Die Lustige Witwe | |
Mascagni, P. | Cavalleria Rusticana | |
Minkus, L. | Don Quixote | |
Mozart, W.A. | Così fan tutte | |
Don Giovanni | ||
Le nozze di Figaro | ||
Puccini, G. | Gianni Schicchi | |
La Bohème | ||
La Fanciulla del West | ||
Le villi | ||
Madama Butterfly* | ||
Tosca | ||
Rossini, G. | Cenerentola | |
Il Barbiere di Siviglia | ||
Il Viaggio a Reims* | ||
La cambiale di matrimonio | ||
Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos* | |
Verdi, G. | Falstaff | |
La Traviata | ||
Rigoletto | ||
Simon Boccanegra | ||
Un ballo in maschera | ||
Un giorno di regno | ||
Wagner, R. | Götterdämmerung | |
Rheingold | ||
Siegfried | ||
Walküre | ||
Weill, K. | Der Silbersee | |
Die Dreigroschenoper | ||
Lady in the Dark | ||
Zaubernacht |
*in preparation
SYMPHONIC & BALLET
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Beethoven, L.v. | Coriolano Overture | |
Piano Concerto n.1 | ||
Prometheus Overture | ||
Symphony n. 1 | ||
Symphony n. 2 | ||
Symphony n. 3 | ||
Symphony n. 4 | ||
Symphony n. 5 | ||
Symphony n. 6 | ||
Symphony n. 7 | ||
Symphony n. 8 | ||
Triple Concerto op.56 | ||
Brahms, J. | Concerto for violin and cello op.102 | |
Ein Deutsches Requiem* | ||
Symphony n.1 | ||
Symphony n.2 | ||
Symphony n.4 | ||
Variations on a theme by Haydn | ||
Britten, B. | Sea Interludes | |
Sinfonietta | ||
Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge | ||
Bruckner, A. | Overture in G minor | |
Bush, A. | Symphonic Dances | |
Copland, A. | Dances from Rodeo | |
Debussy, C. | Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune | |
Dvořák, A. | Symphony n.7 | |
Symphony n.8 | ||
Symphony n.9 | ||
The Noon Witch | ||
Elgar, E. | Enigma Variations | |
Grieg, E. | Holberg Suite | |
Peer Gynt Suites | ||
Piano Concerto op.16 | ||
Ibert, J. | Concertino da camera | |
Haydn, J. | Symphony n. 20 | |
Symphony n. 88 | ||
Symphony n. 93 | ||
Symphony n. 94 | ||
Symphony n. 100 | ||
Symphony n. 101 | ||
Symphony n. 103 | ||
Williams, J. | Tuba Concerto | |
Koehne, G. | Three Poems of Byron | |
Ligeti, G. | Concert Romanesc | |
Mahler, G. | Adagietto from Symphony n.5 | |
Adagio from Symphony n.10 | ||
Rückert Lieder | ||
Symphony n.1 | ||
Mendelssohn, F. | A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture | |
Hebrides Overture | ||
Symphony n. 3 | ||
Symphony n. 4 | ||
Mozart, W.A. | Overture zur Zauberflöte | |
Requiem* | ||
Serenade for winds “Gran Partita” | ||
Symphony n. 25 | ||
Symphony n. 29 | ||
Symphony n. 31 | ||
Symphony n. 35 | ||
Symphony n. 36 | ||
Symphony n. 38 | ||
Symphony n. 39 | ||
Symphony n. 40 | ||
Symphony n. 41 | ||
Poulenc, F. | Concerto for two pianos* | |
Sinfonietta | ||
Prokofieff, S. | Lieutenant Kije Suite | |
Romeo and Juliet Suite | ||
Symphony n. 1 | ||
Violin Concerto n. 1 | ||
Rachmaninoff, S. | Symphonic Dances | |
Ravel, M. | Daphnis et Chloe Suite | |
Le tombeau de Couperin | ||
Ma mere l’oye | ||
Pavane pour une infante defunte | ||
Rimsky-Korsakov, N. | Sheherazade | |
Rossini, G. | Sinfonia da “Semiramide” | |
Schönberg, A. | Kammersymphonie n.1 | |
Pierrot Lunaire* | ||
Schubert, F. | Rosamunde Overture | |
Symphony n. 6 | ||
Symphony n. 8 D759 “Unfinished” | ||
Schumann, R. | Manfred Overture | |
Symphony n. 1 | ||
Symphony n. 3 | ||
Sculthorpe, P. | The Stars Turn | |
Shostakovich, D. | Cello Concerto n.1 | |
Piano Concerto n.1 | ||
Sibelius, J. | Finlandia | |
Sy | ||
Violin Concerto | ||
Strauss, R. | Don Juan* | |
Till Eulenspiegel* | ||
Stravinsky, I. | Histoire du Soldat | |
Petrushka | ||
Pulcinella Suite | ||
Rite of Spring | ||
The Firebird | ||
Tchaikovsky, P.I. | Piano Concerto n.1 | |
Romeo and Juliet Overture | ||
Serenade for strings | ||
Sleeping Beauty | ||
Symphony n. 1 | ||
Symphony n. 5 | ||
Symphony n. 6 | ||
The Nutcracker | ||
Vaughan Williams, R. | Symphony n. 2* |