OperA Resume
““Once again, the spark plug was the vigorous conducting of Francesco Milioto, around whose fine instrumental ensemble the nonsensical action cavorted, danced and tumbled. He kept everything moving at full throttle...”
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Opera San Antonio: Music Director
2023-24: Hansel & Gretel and Amahl and the Night Visitors
2022-23: Pagliacci and Romeo and Juliet
2021-22: Rigoletto
2020-21: Lucia di Lammermoor
2019-20: Tosca and Rigoletto (postponed)
2018-19: La traviata
Florentine Opera: Artistic Advisor/Guest Conductor
2023-24: Bronzeville Boheme (La Boheme)
2022-23: Romeo and Juliet and The Barber of Seville
2021-22: Rigoletto
The Atlanta Opera: Guest Conductor
2021-22: Pirates of Penzance and Cabaret
2020:21: The Threepenny Opera
Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera: Music Director
2022-23: Valentine’s Day recital
2021-22: La traviata
Lyric Opera of Chicago: Music Staff: Cover/Assistant Conductor
2023-24: Jenufa and Aida (with performances April 4 and 7, 2024)
2022-23: Ernani and Hansel and Gretel
2021-22: Fire Shut Up in my Bones
2020-21: Tosca (cancelled) and L’Elisir d’amore (cancelled)
2019-20: Luisa Miller, Madama Butterfly, and Die Walküre (cancelled)
2018-19: Cendrillon (*LOC debut performance 1/11/19) and La traviata
2017-18: Rigoletto and The Pearl Fishers
*2013-17: La traviata, Capriccio, Tosca, The Merry Widow, Der Rosenkavalier, Die Zauberflöte and Eugene Onegin
Dallas Opera: Cover/Assistant Conductor
2020-21: Tosca
2018-19: Falstaff, and guest conductor Pepito (Family Performance)
2016-17: Moby Dick, and guest conductor Bastien and Bastienne (Family Performances)
Numi Opera: Guest Conductor
2019: Der Ring des Polykrates
Arizona Opera: Guest Conductor
2017-18: The Barber of Seville
Santa Fe Opera: Music Staff: Cover/Assistant Conductor
2015-22: Salome, La Fanciulla del West, The Golden Cockerel, Ariadne auf Naxos, Jenufa, Onegin, Tristan und Isolde
The Bregenz Festival: Cover Conductor
2023: Ernani
Chicago Opera Theater: Guest Conductor
2017-18: Double-bill Il Pigmalione and Rita (Donizetti)
*2013-16: Giovanna d’Arco (Verdi), The Emperor of Atlantis (Ullmann), The Clever One (Orff), Macbeth (Bloch) and Lucio Silla (Mozart)
Chicago Opera Theater: Assistant Conductor/Chorus Master/Rehearsal Pianist 2009-2010
Mose in Egitto (Rossini), Three Decembers (Heggie) and La Tragédie de Carmen
New Millennium Orchestra: Music Director
December 2014: Bluebeard’s Castle
March 2013: Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Ullmann)
Opera Santa Barbara: Guest Conductor
March 2014: Falstaff
April 2013: Don Pasquale
Los Angeles Opera: First Assistant Conductor to James Conlon
April 2012: La Bohème
November 2010: Rigoletto
The Ravinia Festival: (2004-13)
Assistant Conductor/Rehearsal Pianist/Coach/Prompter
*2005-2013: Projects included: Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, and Otello, as well as many symphonic and choral works.
2004: Le Nozze di Figaro (with Daniel Barenboim)
Portland Opera: Assistant Conductor/Chorus Master
January 2013: Tosca
Opera Southwest: Guest Conductor
March 2011: La traviata
Chicago Cultural Center Summer Opera: Music Director 2002-2009
Productions included: Acis and Galatea, Il Signor Bruschino, The Magic Flute, The Love for Three Oranges, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Dido and Aeneas (conductor/harpsichord), Geneviève de Brabant (Satie), Candide, Le Nozze di Figaro (conductor/harpsichord)