About

Italian conductor Giuseppe Mentuccia has appeared at renowned venues such as the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, James Levine, Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Ivan Fischer, Christian Thielemann and Myung-Whun Chung.

In the 2026/2027 season, he returns to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden to conduct Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, La Traviata, Norma, L‘Elisir d‘Amore and La Vestale. His recent engagements include Otello at the Teatro Real, as well as Falstaff and Rigoletto in Berlin, Aida and Carmen at Oper Frankfurt, and Tosca at Theater St. Gallen. He has also conducted the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Spoleto in Das Lied von der Erde, and led a premiere with the Staatsballett Berlin featuring works by Igor Stravinsky, including Le Sacre du printemps and Petrushka.