Jader Bignamini

Jader Bignamini Conductor

Biography

Born in Crema, Italy, Jader Bignamini studied at the Piacenza Conservatory of Music. Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, he leads his fifth full season there in 2025–2026.

He has conducted Manon Lescaut in Moscow, La Traviata in Munich, Turandot in Verona, Il Trovatore and Aida in Rome, La Bohème in Venice, L’Elisir d’amore in Ancona, Tosca in Bologna, La Forza del destino in Parma, and Madama Butterfly in Venice. In 2013, he assisted Riccardo Chailly for performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Milan.

Highlights of recent seasons include Turandot at the Verona Arena, his debut with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto conducting Gianni Schicchi, at the Frankfurt Opera with Rigoletto, and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Simon Boccanegra, as well as Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut at the Vienna State Opera.

During the 2025–2026 season, he conducts, among others, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Carmen at the Frankfurt Opera, and La Bohème at the Rome Opera.

At the Paris Opera: La Forza del destino, 2022; Adriana Lecouvreur, 2024

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