Antonio pappano biography

Sir Antonio Pappano has been Music Director of The Royal Opera since 2002. He was Music Director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome from 2005 to 2023 and has held previous titles with Norwegian Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2023 he became Chief Conductor Designate of the London Symphony Orchestra, and takes the full Chief Conductor title from the 2024/25 season.

Pappano appears as guest conductor with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, festivals and opera houses, including the Berlin and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the London, Chicago and Boston Symphonies, the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, the Staatskapelle Dresden, Bavarian Radio Symphony and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera New York and Teatro alla Scala Milan, the Salzburg and Verbier Festi