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Ottavio Dantone

Ottavio Dantone

Ottavio Dantone (born 9 October 1960) is an Italian conductor and keyboardist (primarily harpsichord and fortepiano) particularly noted for his performances of Baroque music. Since 1996 he has been the music director of the Accademia Bizantina, an instrumental ensemble specialising in the performance of 17th- and 18th-century musical repertoire, with which Dantone has been collaborating since 1989. Under his direction Accademia Bizantina has established itself as one of the best known and internationally acclaimed ensembles performing Baroque music on period instruments.

Career

Dantone trained at the Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan where he graduated in organ and harpsichord. In 1985 he was awarded the Basso Continuo prize at the International Paris Festival and was also a laureate in the 1986 International Bruges Festival.

His meeting with the Accademia Bizantina marked the beginning of a long-lasting partnership. Collaborating initially as a continuist and soloist, in 1996 he was appointed conductor of the ensemble, which within a few years had established itself as one of the most well-known and internationally accredited ensembles of baroque music with ancient instruments. There followed several recordings both as soloist and conductor, for labels such as Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, and Naïve.[1][2]

His numerous collaborations with internationally renowned artists, both in concert and recording, include Claudio Abbado, Viktoria Mullova and Andreas Scholl. [3][4][5]

He has performed at the world's most important festivals and theatres, such as Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro Real in Madrid, Glyndebourne and many others.

Dantone made his debut as an opera conductor in 1999 with the first performance in modern times of Giuseppe Sarti's Giulio Sabino at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna.[6] He made his La Scala debut in 2005 conducting Handel's Rinaldo,[7] and would conduct performances of the same opera at Glyndebourne in 2011.[8]

Selected Recordings

  • Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Sonatas – Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord). Label: Stradivarius (CD)
  • Settecento Veneziano – Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (conductor). Label: Arts Music (CD)
  • Sarti: Giulio Sabino – Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (conductor). Label: Bongiovanni (CD)
  • Vivaldi: Tito Manlio – Nicola Ulivieri, Karina Gauvin, Ann Hallenberg, Marijana Mijanovic, Debora Beronesi, Barbara Di Castri; Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (conductor). Label: Naïve (CD)
  • Vivaldi: In Furore, Laudate Pueri, Concerti Sacri – Sandrine Piau, Stefano Montenari, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (conductor). Label: Naïve (CD, 2006)
  • Il Giardino Armonico Deux: Music of the French Baroque - Giovanni Antonini (flute), Luca Pianca (lute), Enrico Onofri (violin), Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba), Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord). Recorded in the Hellbrunn Palace, Salzburg. Label: Arthaus Musik (DVD)
  • Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria with Livietta e Tracollo DVD
  • Pergolesi: Il Flaminio DVD
  • 2018 – Antonio Vivaldi, Il Giustino (Naïve)
  • 2017 – Antonio Vivaldi, Agitata, con Delphine Galou (Alpha Classics)
  • 2018 – Antonio Vivaldi, Concerti per Archi III e Concerti per Viola d’Amore (Naïve)
  • 2018 – Antonio Vivaldi, Il Giustino (Naïve)
  • 2019 – Antonio Vivaldi, Musica sacra per alto, con Delphine Galou (Naïve)
  • 2019 – Antonio Vivaldi, Arie e cantate per contralto, con Delphine Galou (Naïve)
  • 2019 – Antonio Vivaldi, Concerti per violino VII “Per il castello” (Naïve)
  • 2020 – Antonio Vivaldi, Il Tamerlano (Naïve)
  • 2020 – Georg Friedrich Händel, Rinaldo (HDB Sonus)
  • 2021 – Pietro Antonio Cesti, La Dori (CPO)
  • 2022 – Claudio Monteverdi, Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria (Dynamic)
  • 2022 – Georg Friedrich Händel, Serse (HDB Sonus)
  • 2022 – Georg Friedrich Händel, Concerti Grossi Op. 6 (HDB Sonus)
  • 2022 – Georg Friedrich Händel, Concerti Grossi Op. 3 (HDB Sonus)
  • 2023 – Arcangelo Corelli, Concerti Grossi Op. 6 (HDB Sonus)
  • 2024 – Imprinting: Mendelssohn & Schumann (HDB Sonus)

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Ottavio Dantone". Discogs (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  2. ^ "Accademia Bizantina". Discogs (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  3. ^ Chapman, Eva (2012-09-04). From Russia to Love: The Life and Music of Viktoria Mullova. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84954-455-9.
  4. ^ The Gramophone. C. Mackenzie. 2008.
  5. ^ Picard, Anna (13 November 2005). "Andreas Scholl/ Accademia Bizantina, Barbican Hall, London".
  6. ^ Freeman (December 2000)
  7. ^ El Diario Vasco (20 October 2009)
  8. ^ "Rinaldo: Glyndebourne Festival 2011". Glyndebourne. Archived from the original on 16 January 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2011.

Sources


Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accademia_Bizantina