When: Thursday, April 06, 2017 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of New York

Organized by : ICI - Entrance : Free

For the Series Italian Conductors in New York: Maestro Nicola Luisotti in conversation with Harvey Sachs. Maestro Luisotti has been music director of San Francisco Opera since 2009 and has conducted over 40 operas and concerts since his Company debut in 2005. Luisotti, who holds the Caroline H. Hume Endowed Chair, recently conducted the Company’s Luisa Miller, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Don Carlo. Also during the 2015–16 season, he led a symphonic concert at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and was on the podium at Madrid’s Teatro Real for Rigoletto. He returned to Milan’s Teatro alla Scala to lead performances of Rigoletto, followed by London’s Royal Opera, Covent Garden for Il Trittico and La Traviata and Paris for a new production of Rigoletto at Opéra Bastille.