F EDERICO M ARIA S A R D E L L I – Conductor In 1984 Federico Maria Sardelli, originally a flutist, founded the Baroque orchestra Modo Antiquo, with which he appears, as both soloist and conductor, at major festivals throughout Europe and in such concert halls as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall Moscow and Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. He is regularly invited as a guest conductor by many prestigious symphony orchestras, including Orchestra Barocca dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Gewandhaus Lipzig, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Staatskapelle Halle, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Real Filarmonia de Galicia, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano. Federico Maria Sardelli has been a notable protagonist in the Vivaldi renaissance of the past few years: he conducted the world premiere recording and performance of many Vivaldi’s operas. In 2005, at Rotterdam Concertgebouw, he conducted the world premiere of Motezuma , rediscovered after 270 years. In 2006 he conducted the world premiere of Vivaldi’s L’Atenaide at Teatro della Pergola in Florence. In 2012 he recorded the last eight Vivaldi works reappeared ( New Discoveries II , Naïve) and conducted the world premiere of the new version of Orlando Furioso , rediscovered and reconstituted by him (Festival de Beaune, Naïve recording). In 2007 he has been Principal Conductor of Händel Festspiele in Halle, where he conducted Ariodante. Among the most important production he has conducted, Giasone by Francesco Cavalli at Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Olivo e Pasquale at Festival Donizetti Bergamo, Dido and Aeneas at Teatro Regio Turin, La Dafne and Alceste at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Händel’s Teseo at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. He records regularly for Naïve and Deutsche Grammophon. He has made more than forty recordings as soloist and conductor, some of them in co-production with and supported by the German broadcast company Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WRD). He has twice been nominated for the Grammy Awards, the most prestigious recording prize: in 1997 for “Vivaldi, Concerti per molti Stromenti”, and in 2000 for his recording of Corelli’s Concerti Grossi , newly rediscovered by him. In 2009 he conducted and recorded the world premiere of Salieri’s Mondo alla Rovescia. Alongside his active conducting career, he is also extremely busy as a musicologist. He is a member of the musicological committee of the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi, and has published many musicological essays and critical editions. He is the author of the study Vivaldi’s Music for Flute and Recorder (2002), translated by Michael Talbot and published in the UK by Ashgate (2007). He is general editor of the collection of facsimile editions Vivaldiana and of the Opere Incomplete (SPES, Florence). In 2012 he published the Catalogue of Vivaldi’s musical concordances, by Fondazione G. Cini and Olschki. In 2007 Peter Ryom has chosen him to be the person in charge of the continuing Vivaldi catalogue, Vivaldi Werkverzeichnis (RV). For his artistic merits, in 2009 the Government of Tuscany decorated him with the Gonfalone d’Argento, the highest medal of honour. Federico Maria Sardelli is also a painter, engraver and satirical writer and in 2015 his novel L'affare Vivaldi has been awarded the “Premio Comisso per la Narrativa” and has become a bestseller. LATEST PERFORMANCES : Porpora’s L’Angelica at Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca ; Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater with Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma; Haendel’s Messiah at Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Salieri’s Prima la musica e poi le parole and Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor , Il barbiere di Siviglia , Il sogno di Scipione and Il re pastore by Mozart at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Rinaldo , Intermedi della Pellegrina and La clemenza di Tito at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Haendel’s Tolomeo at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe; concerts with Vancouver Symphony; Orlando furioso at Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow; Die Zauberflöte with Opera Lombardia. FORTHCOMING PROJECTS : Rinaldo at Teatro La Fenice in Venice; concerts at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, with Orchestra Barocca dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma, with Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, with Haydn Orchestra in Bozen, at Teatro Verdi in Trieste; Vivaldi’s Farnace in Ferrara and in Piacenza; Tolomeo in Karlsruhe. Last update: September 2021, please do not use any previous version. Melos Opera S.r.l. – Via Speranza, 5 – 40068 San Lazzaro di Savena (Bo) – Italia [email protected] – www.melosopera.com – tel. +39 051 455 395 Cap. Soc. € 10.000 i.v. – Cod. Fisc. e P.Iva: 03640741207 – REA BO-535118 .