150th Anniversary of Florence as Capital of Italy

GIUSEPPE LA MALFA

A graduate in piano, composition and conducting at the Music Conservatory Niccolo Piccinni in Bari, he studied singing with the baritone Luigi De Corato. In 2004 he conducted Così fan tutte at the Cairo Opera House and the Sayed Darwish Theatre in Alexandria, Egypt. In 2007 he won the International Competition Franco Capuana for young conductors of the European Community at Spoleto, where, the following year, he was on the podium for La Cenerentola. He inaugurated the opera season at the Teatre Principal in Palma de Mallorca with Le Villiand Suor Angelica and directed La Traviata at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, L'italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Falstaff at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and Rigoletto at the Teatro Francesco Cilea of Reggio Calabria.