Clelia Cafiero
Napa Valley Festival
Cafiero moved through Stravinsky's transcendent tale with attentiveness and command, awakening the audience to the magic of nearby nature.
San Francisco Classical Voice (July 21, 2025)
Cincinnati Opera - Tosca
Italian Conductor Clelia Cafiero impresses in US debut with Tosca. Much of the evening's success must go to the Italian conductor Clelia Cafiero for her leadership with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, in her United States debut. (…) In the orchestra pit, Cafiero brought dramatic intensity and interpretive warmth to every measure of the score.
Cincinnati Business Courier (June 28, 2025) Season 25/26 and Highlights
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA ORCHESTRA
All-Mozart Concert
Sep 12
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA
Bizet - Carmen
Oct 8/11/15/17/23
OPERA AUSTRALIA
Bizet - Carmen
Nov 15/17/18/19/20/21/22/24/25
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BERLIN STATE OPERA
Puccini - La bohème
Dec 20/27/30, Jan 1/10
ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI MILANO
Liszt - Orpheus
Rota - Divertimento concertante per contrabbasso
Dvorak - Symphony 6
Dec 20/27/30, Jan 1/10
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE
Gounod - Roméo et Juliette (concertante)
Feb 19
BBC NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES
Chausson - Symphony in B-Flat
Sibelius - Pelléas et Méllisande
Ravel - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Feb 26
BBC PHILHARMONIC
Puccini - Capriccio symphonico
Strauss, R - Macbeth
Janacek - Cunning Little Vixen Suite
March 18
MALMO SYMPHONY
Leoncavallo - Intermezzo from Pagliacci
Puccini (arr. Rizzi) - Suite from Madama Butterfly
Verdi - Overture to Nabucco
Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Puccini (arr. Rizzi) - Suite from Tosca
March 26
LA MONNAIE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Schubert - Rosamunde
Mendelssohn - Scottish Symphony
Mozart - Symphony No. 38 “Prague”
Apr 1
SEMPEROPER DRESDEN
Verdi - La traviata
Apr 9/11/17/25/28
LUCERNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Pergolesi - Sinfonia da Adriano in Siria
Bach, JS - Concerto in d minor
Cimarosa - Matrimonio segreto
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1
Say, F. - "Mother Earth"
May 10
LUCERNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17
Pergolesi - Sinfonia da Adriano in Siria
Bach, JS - Concerto in d minor
Cimarosa - Matrimonio segreto
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1
May 15
ORCHESTRA NATIONAL MONTPELLIER OCCITANIE
Schubert - Symphony No. 5
Verdi - Quattro pezzi sacri
June 12/13
Biography
The Neapolitan conductor Clelia Cafiero gained international attention with her acclaimed debut at the Chorégies d'Orange in the summer of 2023, where she conducted Carmen with the Orchestre National de Lyon conducted, and in April 2025 through a much-noticed short-term stand-in at the Opéra de Paris with the French version of Don Carlos.
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The 2025/26 season is marked by numerous prestigious debuts. She makes her Australian debut at Opera Australia with Carmen, and will appear for the first time at the Staatsoper Berlin (La Bohème) and the Semperoper Dresden (La Traviata). She also returns to the English National Opera to conduct Carmen as well as a concert program.
Her international presence on the concert stage continues to grow impressively: she makes her debuts with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Orchestre National de France, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra, and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. She also returns to the Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie for a series of concerts.
Already in the 2024/25 season, Clelia Cafiero made further significant opera debuts at the English National Opera (La Bohème), the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège (La Périchole), the Cincinnati Opera (Tosca), and with the Nikikai Opera Foundation in Tokyo (Così fan tutte). Her symphonic debuts that season included appearances with the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Irish National Orchestra, and the Festival Napa Valley.
From 2022 to 2025, Cafiero served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Opéra de Tours, where she led both opera productions and symphonic concerts.
In recent years, she has conducted Madama Butterfly at the Opéra de Québec, Carmen and La Traviata at the Opéra de Marseille, Tosca at the Angers-Nantes Opéra and the Opéra de Rennes, and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra de Tours. She has also appeared in concert with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, and the Orchestra of the Accademia della Scala. She returned to the Chorégies d’Orange to conduct Tosca, and made her debut at the Festival Radio France with Rossini’s Stabat Mater.
Clelia Cafiero began her musical career as a concert pianist and has performed in renowned halls such as the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and the Philharmonie de Paris. Between 2013 and 2019, she worked regularly as a répétiteur at the Teatro alla Scala. She studied piano and conducting at the conservatories in Naples and Milan, as well as at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She also holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Naples – Federico II.
2025/26
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