Joseph Rescigno

Who is Joseph Rescigno?

Joseph Rescigno is a conductor and Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Florentine Opera Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States. He also serves as Music Director of La Musica Lirica festival in Italy. In addition, he was Artistic Director of Metropolitan Orchestra of Greater Montreal for four years during which time he made four recordings and won Quebec’s Prix Opus for a program of all five Beethoven piano concertos with Anton Kuerti at the piano. The conductor Nicola Rescigno, a founder of both the Dallas Opera and Chicago Opera companies, was his uncle.

Rescigno has conducted around the world from the New York City Opera and the Montreal Symphony to companies in both of the Americas, Asia and Europe. He has conducted the masterworks of the choral literature and symphonies and concertos from the baroque to the modern era, sometimes conducting from the keyboard in works from the earlier eras. In opera, he has conducted virtually all of the core Italian opera repertory—including romantic, verismo, and bel canto operas—as well as the standard French and German repertory. The contemporary works he has conducted include the Florentine Opera’s first world premiere, Don Davis’s Río de Sangre, in 2010. He is also working on his first book, The View From the Pit: Where Theater Meets Music.