Italian conductor
Daniele Rustioni studied organ, piano, and composition at the Milan Conservatory, where he worked with Gilberto Serembe, and later attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, where he studied with
Gianluigi Gelmetti. He also worked with
Gianandrea Noseda at the Royal Academy of Music in London, before making his debut in 2007 with the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin. In 2009, he became
Antonio Pappano's assistant at the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden.
Rustioni is the principal conductor of the Opéra National de Lyon, and he also conducts at La Fenice, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. In 2011, he made his first appearance at the Glimmerglass Festival, which he followed in 2013 with his debut with the Washington National Opera.
Rustioni has also conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, Opera North, the Welsh National Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Oper Stuttgart, the Staatsoper Berlin, and the Opernhaus Zürich. In concert performances,
Rustioni has also conducted the
London Philharmonic Orchestra, the
BBC Philharmonic, the
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Montecarlo. He has recorded for Naxos, Opus Arte, and Sony Classical.