Alberto Zedda

Recordings made under his direction include operas as well as symphonic and chamber music. He taught at the Piacenza Conservatory (Orchestral Practice), at the Osimo Academy (Musical Philology) and at the Urbino University (History of the Music). Founder and Director of the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro. He has always dedicated part of his time to musicology, editing widely successful critical versions of operas, oratorios and cantatas, with particular attention to Rossini and to the first half of the 19th Century and early baroque repertoire. Member of the Editorial Board of the Fondazione Rossini since it was created. He wrote Divagazioni Rossiniane, published in 2012 by Ricordi, Milan, which was translated into Spanish, German and English. He was Principal guest conductor for Italian repertoire at the New York City Opera; Musical Director at the Festival della Valle D’Itria of Martina Franca; Artistic Advisor of the Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival and of La Coruña’s Festival Mozart; Artistic Director of Baroque Festival of Fano; Artistic Director of Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro and of the theatres Carlo Felice in Genova and La Scala in Milan. Grand Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic, member of the Ordre du “Merite Culturel” of Poland, Académico Correspondiente de la Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras de Sevilla, Honorary Chairmen of the Deutsche Rossini Gesellschaft. He received the degree honoris causa in Communication Sciences by the Macerata University.

• Born — 2 January 1928 • Birthplace — Milan, Italy • Occupation — Conductor, musicologist • Genre — 19th-century Italian repertoire • Died — 6 March 2017 • Place of death — Pesaro, Italy