LONDON – Speranza Scappucci will be Principal Guest Conductor of the London Royal Opera from the 2025/26 season.
The company announced their appointment on Monday.
The 50-year-old Italian, a graduate of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and the Juilliard School in New York, made her Royal Opera debut last year in Verdi’s Attila. The Royal Opera has not had a principal guest conductor since Daniele Gatti from 1994 to 1997.
She will work with Jakub Hrůša, who will succeed Antonio Pappano as music director for the 2025–26 season. The house said Scappucci will be involved in works by Verdi and Puccini in addition to bel canto.
From 2017 to 2022, Scappucci was music director of Belgium’s Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège and made his debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, Milian’s Teatro alla Scala and the Paris Opéra.
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