Enrico Lombardi

After studying piano, organ and composition, he graduated with honours in Orchestral Conducting from the Conservatory of Florence and in Choral Music and Choir Direction from the Conservatory of Ferrara. At the same time, he graduated in Music Disciplines from the University of Bologna, and then furthered his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and with Francesco Lanzillotta and Bruno Taddia in conducting technique and interpretation style.

Active on both the symphonic and operatic fronts, he has worked with artists such as singers Olga Peretyatko, Varduhi Abrahamyan, René Barbera and Roberto Scandiuzzi, directors Alessio Pizzech and Graham Vick, violinist Soo Young Lee and guitarist Pepe Romero, and has conducted ensembles such as the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, the Orchestra i Pomeriggi musicali and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Orchestra Sinfonica ‘G. Rossini’ Pesaro and F. Pesaro, and the Orchestra Sinfonica ‘G. Rossini’ in Milan. Rossini' of Pesaro and Fano, the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta, the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, with a repertoire ranging from Viennese classicism to 19th century opera, and from Rimsky-Korsakov and Debussy to the avant-garde of the third millennium.

Among his operatic successes are Cherubini's Il giocatore at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (2017), Bizet's Carmen at the Macerata Opera Festival (2019), Rossini's La Cenerentola in the AsLiCo circuit (2022), Verdi's La traviata in those of Opera Lombardia and Rete lirica delle Marche (2022-2023) and Aida by the same at the Teatro Sociale di Como (2023). He enjoyed a personal triumph with the public and critics when, as an emergency replacement for the injured maestro and friend Lanzillotta, he studied the rare Adelaide di Borgogna in just a few hours and made his debut with it at the Rossini Opera Festival, a performance that was immediately rebounded internationally by the TV channel Mezzo (2023).

His recent engagements include the highly acclaimed rediscovery of Lauro Rossi's Falsi monetari (La casa disabitata) at the Teatro della Fortuna in Fano for the ‘Il belcanto ritrovato’ festival (2024); he will be there again for the first performance today of a great 19th-century operatic masterpiece, as well as on the Opera Lombardia circuit, for Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, and in concerts with the ‘G. Rossini' Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (2025).