Jader Bignamini

Jader Bignamini Conductor

Biography

Born in Crema, Italy, Jader Bignamini studied at the Conservatory of Music in Piacenza. He is Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he is conducting his sixth full season in 2026–2027.

He has conducted Manon Lescaut in Moscow, La traviata in Munich, Turandot in Verona, Il trovatore and Aida in Rome, La bohème and Madama Butterfly in Venice, L’elisir d’amore in Ancona, Tosca in Bologna, and La forza del destino in Parma. In 2013, he assisted Riccardo Chailly during performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in Milan.

Highlights of recent seasons include Turandot at the Verona Arena, Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut at the Vienna State Opera, Carmen at the Frankfurt Opera, La bohème at the Rome Opera, his debut with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto in Gianni Schicchi, Rigoletto at the Frankfurt Opera, and Simon Boccanegra at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In the symphonic field, he has conducted works such as Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”) with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

At the Paris Opera: La forza del destino (2022); Adriana Lecouvreur (2024); Tosca (2026).

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