Evelino Pidò

Recent highlights for Pidò include a new production of Bellini La sonnambula for the Semperoper Dresden, Donizetti La fille du régiment for the Teatro Regio di Torino, his most recent return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for La bohème where he had previously conducted Don Pasquale, La fille du régiment and Rossini Il turco in Italia, L’elisir d’amore and Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Meyerbeer Les Huguenots for La Monnaie, Donizetti Viva La Mamma for the Teatro Real, Madrid, Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale for the Wiener Staatsoper, Verdi La traviata for the Gran Theatre del Liceu, Verdi Rigoletto for the Bolshoi Theatre, La traviata for the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Puccini Tosca and Don Pasquale for Opéra National de Paris and Verdi Simon Boccanegra for the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia with Placido Domingo. On the concert platform, Pidò conducted a gala concert with tenor Vittorio Grigolo to great critical acclaim at the Teatro Colón.

In 2012, Evelino Pidò received the much-coveted Bellini d’Oro prize for best interpreter of the music of Bellini. His discography includes a recording of French arias with tenor Vittorio Grigolo, L’elisir d’amore with the Orchestra and Choir of the Opéra de Lyon for Decca; a recording of Rossini overtures with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and La sonnambula with Natalie Dessay for EMI Virgin Classics, which won the Diapason d’or and is critically acknowledged as a benchmark recording of this opera.