Paolo Carignani

Paolo Carignani (* 1961 in Milan ) is an Italian musician and conductor.

Carignani studied in Milan at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory organ, piano and composition. This is followed by a study of orchestral conducting with Alceo Galliera joined. From 1999 to 2008 he was music director of the Frankfurt Opera and artistic director of the concerts of the Frankfurt Museum Society.

Concerts he conducted, inter alia, with the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the RAI Turin, Milan Verdi Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie -Orchester Berlin, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. For his conducting of ' Le nozze di Figaro at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, the Italians received the 1991 Critics' Prize 'Prince of Wales '.

Guest performances, among others Carignani at the Vienna and Munich State Opera, the Concertgebouw and at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, at the Zurich Opera House, the War Memorial in San Francisco, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Glyndebourne Festival, the German Opera Berlin, the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and at the Norske Opera in Oslo.