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John Mauceri
Born September 12, 1945 in New York City, New York, United States (81 years old)
Opera
John Francis Mauceri is an American conductor, composer, author, and educator whose work has focused on orchestral music, opera, Broadway, and film-related repertoire. A graduate of Yale University, where he later taught music for more than a decade, he has conducted the major orchestras and opera companies in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Cleveland Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony (Washington), Philadelphia Orchestra, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien (Vienna), San Francisco Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He has won a To
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Signature Roles
Conductor: Candide (Leonard Bernstein) — Broadway (1973), New York City Opera (1982), Scottish Opera (1988)Conductor: A Quiet Place (Leonard Bernstein) — Teatro alla Scala, Milan (1983), Washington National Opera (1984)Conductor: The Saint of Bleecker Street (Gian Carlo Menotti) — Wolf Trap (1973)Conductor: Lulu (Alban Berg) — Santa Fe Opera (1974)Conductor: Don Carlos (Verdi) — Welsh Opera (1974)
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Career Trajectory
Beginning his conducting career in 1973 with Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street at Wolf Trap, Mauceri rapidly established himself as a conductor of exceptional range and musicianship, earning a special Tony Award in 1973 for his work on Bernstein's Candide on Broadway. His decades-long association with Bernstein's music—from conducting the composer's premieres to supervising definitive recordings—positioned him as the authoritative voice in that repertoire, while his guest conducting engagements at the world's leading opera houses and orchestras, combined with his scholarly work as author and educator, have secured his standing as one of the most intellectually rigorous and artistically accomplished conductors of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Career Highlight
Special Tony Award for Advancement of Musical Theatre for the Broadway production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide (1973)
At a Glance
- Discipline
- Conductor
- Nationality
- United States
- Born
- 1945 · New York City, New York, United States
- Active since
- 1973
Training & Education
Yale School of Music
Engagements
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