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Rinaldo Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano

Rinaldo Alessandrini/Concerto Italiano

1984 Concerto Italiano makes its Rome debut with a performance of La Calisto by Cavalli. This is followed by a number of other productions of opera and oratorio (Handel's Amadigi, Alessandro Scarlatti's Caino, Vinci's Catone in Utica, Vivaldi's La Senna festeggiante).
1994 Concerto Italiano records Monteverdi's fourth book of madrigals for Opus 111, for which they become the first Italian Baroque ensemble to receive a Gramophone Award.
1995 Foundation of the Concerto Italiano orchestral ensemble.
1996 Concerto Italiano presents a concert of Monteverdi madrigals in conjunction with a ballet by the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Edinburgh Festival, for which they win the Festival Critics' Award.
1997 The Concerto Italiano vocal ensemble makes its Japanese debut to great acclaim, ending its tour with two memorable concerts in Tokyo (Casals Hall and Kioi Hall).
1998 Concerto Italiano wins its second Gramophone Award for the recording of Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals.
1999 The Concerto Italiano orchestral ensemble makes its American debut at Lincoln Center in New York at the start of an extensive tour of South America, Japan and Europe.
2000 Rinaldo Alessandrini is invited by the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall to give a cycle devoted to Bach. In the same year the Concerto Italiano orchestral ensemble plays for the first time at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
2001 With its recording of Rossini operatic arias with the soprano María Bayo for Naïve, Concerto Italiano makes its first incursion into the bel canto repertoire.
2002 Concerto Italiano receives its third Gramophone Award for its recording of a selection of madrigals by Marenzio. The ensemble records Vivaldi's opera L'Olimpiade to huge critical acclaim, and takes part in a production of Handel's Theodora at the Salamanca Festival.
2003 Takes part in the staged production of Alessandro Scarlatti's oratorio La Vergine dei dolori at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Concerto Italiano is awarded the Premio Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana. Its CD of Vivaldi's Four Seasons is described by Gramophone as the finest version ever recorded.
Rinaldo Alessandrini is admired as a conductor for his original and expressive approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century vocal repertoire. He appeared as a guest conductor at the 1998 Spoleto Festival in Handel's Semele, and during the 1997-98 season in L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi) with Welsh National Opera (filmed by the BBC) and L'Olimpiade (Vivaldi) at the Teatro Rendano in Cosenza. In the 1998-99 season he conducted Handel's Alcina at the Liceu in Barcelona.
2000-2001 He conducted L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Frankfurt Opera, and two Mozart operas: Le nozze di Figaro with Welsh National Opera and Zaide at the La Coruña Mozart Festival.
2001-2002 Monteverdi and Handel were once again given pride of place, bringing him considerable acclaim in L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro Comunale, Bologna, Amadigi at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, and Theodora at the Salamanca Festival.
2002-2003 He conducts Giulio Cesare in a new production by Luca Ronconi at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and Amadigi at the Edinburgh Festival. He is appointed Chevalier dans l'ordre des Lettres et des Arts.
Concerto Italiano's discography has been honoured with all the major awards: Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Gramophone Award, Prix de la Nouvelle Académie du disque, Premio internationale del disco Antonio Vivaldi (Cini Foundation), Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, etc.

 
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