Lorenzo Viotti

Lorenzo Viotti has held a double role as principal conductor of both the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest and De Nationale Opera since season 2021-2022, a position he will complete in season 2024-2025. Before coming to Amsterdam, he was chief conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon for three seasons. Many renowned orchestras have played under his direction, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchester, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the radio orchestras of Sweden and Denmark, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Lorenzo Viotti has also previously been a guest of the Münchner Philharmoniker. He has conducted operas at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Frankfurt, Opernhaus Zurich, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Paris and Metropolitan Opera in New York, among others. In 2015, he won the Salzburg Festival's Nestlé Young Conductors Award, and in 2017 he was named 'best newcomer' at the International Opera Awards. Lorenzo Viotti comes from a French-Italian musical family and studied piano, singing and percussion in Lyon. Then, like his father Marcello Viotti, he chose conducting and in this he took lessons with Georg Mark in Vienna and Nicolás Pasquet in Weimar.