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Edoardo Müller was born in Trieste and made
his conducting debut at the Maggio Musicale in Florence in 1973 in Rossini's
Mosé. He was then invited to conduct in many of Europe's leading opera
houses such as Paris, Geneva, Barcelona, Rome, Venice, Turin, Nice, Parma,
Bologna, Munich and Torre del Lago. He enjoyed a particularly close association
with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan where he has conducted Aida, I
due Foscari, Il trovatore, I Masnadieri, La forza del
destino, Ernani, The Barber of Seville, Anna Bolena,
Madama Butterfly, Turandot and Pagliacci.
He made his American debut at San Diego Opera in 1980 conducting Verdi's
Giovanna D'Arco where he has since returned for over 33 productions
including Il Corsaro, Simon Boccanegra, Norma,
Lucia di Lammermoor, La traviata, The Marriage of Figaro
and Il trovatore, Falstaff, Turandot, Don Carlo,
Simon Boccanegra, La bohème and The Barber of Seville.
Capping off his twenty-fifth year of excellence, in 2005 San Diego Opera
bestowed the title of Principal Guest Conductor on Edoardo Müller.
Edoardo Müller made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1984 with The Barber of
Seville and has returned to the Metropolitan regularly since for Lucia
di Lammermoor, I Puritani,The Elixir of Love, The Daughter of
the Regiment, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella and Lucia
di Lammermoor.
Maestro Müller made his debut with the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1999 with La
traviata while in 2000 he was greatly acclaimed for his debut at the
Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires in Attila. Müller has also often conducted
productions at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile. Other theaters which
have welcomed him include the Dallas Opera for Tosca, Seattle Opera for
Norma, Rigoletto, Anna Bolena and Lucia di
Lammermoor, the Cincinanti Opera for Nabucco, The Italian Girl
in Algiers, Aida and La bohème, the Philadelphia Opera
for Lucia di Lammermoor, The Pearl Fishers and Madama
Butterfly, the Pittsburgh Opera for Hamlet, Norma
and Carmen and at L'Opéra de Montréal for Mefistofele,
Dialogues of the Carmelites and Manon Lescaut. In Canada he has
also frequently performed with the opera companies of Edmonton and Winnipeg and
in 2001 he debuted at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa leading Richard
Strauss' Salome. His 2006 season included A Masked Ball and
Il trovatore in Cincinnati, Italiana in Seattle and
Cenerentola in Houston.
Edoardo Müller was for many years the Director of the School for Advanced
Studies at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He has also frequently appeared in
recital with artists including Renata Tebaldi, Leyla Gencer, Katia Ricciarelli,
Carlo Bergonzi, José Carreras and Piero Cappuccilli. His most recent recording
has been in collaboration with Ramon Vargas of Verdi Arias for BMG
Classics.
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