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Anthony Barrese has earned accolades as both a composer and a conductor. He is the recipient of the 2007 Georg Solti Foundation U.S. award for young conductors. His original works have won numerous awards, and he is regularly engaged by opera companies in North America and Italy.

Currently Mr. Barrese works as a freelance composer and conductor. He has led several productions with Sarasota Opera (*Lakmé, Le nozze di Figaro, Hansel and Gretel*), and with Opera Southwest (*Le nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, La cenerentola*) where he is Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. He was the Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Opera in 2006-2007 and returned there as Guest Conductor for a production of *Tosca* in 2008.

In November 2008 Mr. Barrese conducted a new production of *Turandot* in Ascoli Piceno’s historic Teatro Ventidio Basso, with a cast that included Nicola Martinucci as Calaf. He also made his French debut conducting *Turandot* at the Opéra de Massy.

In recent seasons Mr. Barrese made debuts with Boston Lyric Opera (*Don Giovanni*), Mercury Opera, Edmonton (*Il tabarro*) and DePaul Opera Theater (Ned Rorem’s *Our Town*).

Mr. Barrese is the recipient of numerous composition awards including a N.E.C. Contemporary Ensemble Composition Competition Award for his *Madrigale a 3 voci femminili*, and two B.M.I. Student Composers Awards. As a musicologist, Mr. Barrese rediscovered, prepared, and edited the critical edition of Franco Faccio’s opera *Amleto*, in conjunction with Casa Ricordi.

He made his operatic conducting debut in Milan with *La bohème* and recorded Roberto Andreoni’s *quattro luci sul lago* with ”I Solisti della Scala” (a chamber group made up of the first chair musicians of the La Scala Philharmonic) for broadcast on Italian National Radio (RAI 3).

In the 2012-2013 season Mr. Barrese conducted *Lucia di Lammermoor* with Opera North, and Rossini’s *Otello* with the American staged premiere of the finale lieto at Opera Southwest. He also returned to Dallas Opera for a production of Bizet’s *Dr. Miracle*, and made his Opera Theatre of St. Louis debut with Smetana’s *The Kiss*.
