ALBERTO TRIOLA
A native of Milan, Italy (1965), where he got two different degrees (Sciences of Music and Performing Arts and Engineering) Alberto Triola is considered as one of the most prominent and respected name of the opera world in Italy; a not-ordinary figure with a multifaceted personality and a varied professional profile: manager, artistic director, stage director.
From 2018 to 2023 he was superintendent and artistic director of Fondazione Arturo Toscanini in Parma, that under Triola’s guidance achieves notable management objectives and internationally recognized artistic results. From 2010 to 2021 he held also the position of artistic director of Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca (Apulia), one of the most prominent italian summer festival, with its 42 years of history. Under Triola’s tenure, the critic remarks the commendable level of the artistic programs and the Festival gets three times the Abbiati Prize, the most prestigious critic's acknowledgement in the country. Alberto Triola was also Director of Accademia del Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti”, the distinguished young artists program of the festival, the very only in Italy to be specifically devoted to belcanto and the baroque repertoire.
Starting February 2013, he was appointed to the position of General Director at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (the Opera of Florence), that he kept until June 2017. Joining the work of a governative commissioner, then nominated Superintendent (Francesco Bianchi), Triola undertakes an unprecedented work of strong restructuring – that concerns economic, financial and functional aspects - that gives to the company not only a new arrangement, but also the solid economic balance necessary to guarantee its future and the artistic relaunch to the Maggio Musicale, one of the most ancient and prestigious European festivals, which recently experienced the most critic years of its long history.
He worked at Teatro alla Scala of Milano from 1988 to 2002, engaged in different departments and holding several positions, including that of Production Assistant, Assistant to the Artistic Director, Assistant to the Music Director (Riccardo Muti), and finally Assistant to the Technical Director. His rich and multiform professional profile - as well as his education in the music and theatre field, together with an engineering degree - highlights both artistic and managing tasks.
In February 2002, after leaving Milan, he worked as Artistic Administrator for the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, next to Maestro Giancarlo Menotti. In February 2003 he joined the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa as Artistic Director, a position he held until 2007: for the house, a period of unprecedented artistic successes.
For seven seasons, from 2002 until 2008, Alberto Triola has also been Artistic Director of the Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, taking artistic responsibility as well for the Monteverdi Festival, devoted to the ancient and baroque repertoire.
In July 2007 he took on the post of Assistant to the General Manager at Teatro Comunale in Bologna and of General Director of the newly-formed program for young artists (singers, coaches, conductors, directors, set and costumes designers), that the bolognese House ran in collaboration with several italian and international theaters, festivals and universities: La Scuola dell’Opera Italiana.
In 2010 he was also Artistic advisor for the educational programs of the Fondazione Pergolesi-Spontini in Jesi, and in 2011 he was also Artistic advisor to Teatro Lirico di Cagliari.
After more than twenty years spent on support of artistic activity, Alberto made his international, admired debut as stage director at Wexford Opera Festival (Ireland) in 2008, with an acclaimed production of Rossini’s “Il signor Bruschino”, that received enthusiastic reviews by the international critic and huge success of public. Then “Carmen” and “Macbeth” for Theater Luebeck, “La clemenza di Tito” for the Kammeroper of Theater an der Wien, “Don Giovanni” in Belgrad. In Italy he directed Rossini’s “L’inganno felice” at the magnificent Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and “Madama Butterfly” in Trieste, Udine and Rovigo. In 2019 he did is US debut with “Salome” in Dallas (conducted by Fabio Luisi) where he went back in 2022 with Caikovskij’s “Evgeni Onegin” and in 2024 for the lighting project of the Wagner’s Ring in concert, again joining Fabio Luisi conducting.
He was also President of Conservatorio "Nino Rota", Monopoli (Bari). He is adjunct professor at the Alma Mater University of Bologna (“Laboratory of Management of Performing Arts”) for the GIOCA master's degree course.
Regularly invited for several years to hold masterclasses for the young ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden, starting from the 2024/25 academic year he will hold a course for young artists of the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ("From text to stage, today. Reading, understanding, performing").
He is also editor of “Riccardo Muti alla Scala”, published jointly by Teatro alla Scala and Rizzoli (2001), and author of “Giulio Gatti Casazza, una vita per l'Opera”, a volume which includes the first italian version of the famous “Memories of the Opera”, the autobiography of the legendary opera director, published in 2014 by Zecchini Editore.
