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, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann and Myung-Whun Chung.
Giuseppe Mentuccia was Daniel Barenboim’s musical assistant from 2018 until the end of his term as General Music Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. He jumped in for him with great success in the 2021/22 season in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Così Fan Tutte as part of the prestigious Festtage at the Lindenoper. In the 2023/2024 season, Giuseppe Mentuccia will conduct Puccini’s La Bohème, Madama Butterfly and Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Bizet’s Carmen and the Frankfurt Opera.
At the invitation of Daniel Barenboim, Giuseppe Mentuccia is conductor and director of the Barenboim-Said Akademie Orchestra and a member of the Boulez Ensemble since 2020. He is also musical director of the Opernkinderorchester, a project in collaboration with the twelve district music schools of the city of Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin.
He pursued his interest in the relationship between philosophy and music in his dissertation on the Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache, entitled “Phenomenology and the Musical Vision of Sergiu Celibidache”.
Giuseppe Mentuccia is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and holds both his Masters and doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School.