Italian conductor Giuseppe Mentuccia has appeared at leading international venues including the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, James Levine, Simon Rattle, Iván Fischer, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, and Myung-Whun Chung.
From 2018 until the conclusion of his tenure in Berlin, Mentuccia served as musical assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. He came to wider attention in the 2021/22 season, stepping in at short notice to conduct Le Nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte as part of the prestigious Festtage, earning critical acclaim.
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.
Deeply committed to education and outreach, Mentuccia is the musical director and curator of the Opernkinderorchester, a project developed in collaboration with Berlin’s district music schools and the Staatskapelle Berlin, in which more than 90 children rehearse and perform as an opera orchestra, with final concerts at the Staatsoper Berlin and as part of the annual Staatsoper für Alle at Bebelplatz.
He has also pursued his interest in the relationship between philosophy and music through his doctoral research on Sergiu Celibidache, entitled Phenomenology and the Musical Vision of Sergiu Celibidache.
Mentuccia is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and holds both master’s and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School.
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