Joseph Rescigno is Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, and a frequent guest conductor of opera companies throughout the world including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Dallas Opera, Washington Opera, L'Opera de Montreal, New Orleans Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, Arizona Opera, Utah Opera, and the opera companies of Baltimore, Columbus, Edmonton, Pittsburgh, Portland, Seattle, Austin, and Tulsa. In Europe, he has conducted La Cenerentola in Marseilles, France, and La Traviata and La Rondine in Catania, Italy. He also served Artistic Director of L'Orchestre Metropolitain in Montreal, Quebec for four seasons. Maestro Rescigno conducts a broad range of repertoire, achieving success conducting new works (Minoru Miki's Joruri), neglected contemporary works (Barber's Vanessa), the standard works from the Italian literature of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, and Puccini, romantic French works of Gounod and Saint Saens, and German works of Strauss and Wagner including Elektra, Salome, Der Fliegende Holländer, Ariadne auf Naxos, Das Rheingold, and Die Walküre. In recent seasons, he has returned to the Dallas Opera for Madama Butterfly, L'Opera de Montreal for Samson et Dalila, The Consul, Otello, and Faust, Portland Opera for Carmina Burana and I Pagliacci, Opera Columbus for Salome, Der Fliegende Holländer, La Fille du Regiment, and Nabucco, Florentine Opera for Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, Don Giovanni, La Traviata, Der Rosenkavalier, and Der Fliegende Holländer, Baltimore Opera for Nabucco and Madama Butterfly, Portland Opera for The Consul, Vancouver Opera for Aida, Glimmerglass Opera for Don Pasquale and the Opera Company of Philadelphia for Madama Butterfly, in addition to concerts with Orchestre Metropolitain in Montreal. He also returned to New York City Opera to conduct Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, Carmen, and their new production of of I Capuleti e i Montecchi. He has also appeared as a guest conductor with the Montreal Symphony at the invitation of Charles Dutoit and the the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. This past season, he conducted productions of Tristan und Isolde and La Traviata for the Florentine Opera, and Tosca for New York City Opera and Kentucky Opera. This season includes productions of Aida for Utah Opera, Madama Butterfly for Vancouver Opera, and La Cenerentola and La Boheme for the Florentine Opera. Mr. Rescigno has recorded Beethoven’s Symphony No.3, both Brahms’ piano concerti with Anton Kuerti, and solo operatic albums with Diana Soviero and Lyne Fortin, all on the Analekta Label. As a young conductor, Mr. Rescigno served as Music Director of the Stamford State Opera, Artistic Director of the Artists' International Opera of Providence, Rhode Island, and Associate Conductor of the Concert Orchestra of Long Island. A native and current resident of New York, Mr. Rescigno is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fordham University and the Manhattan School of Music, where he also served on the faculty. He is a past prize winner of the Salzburg Conducting Competition, and made his European debut conducting symphonic concerts with the Vienna Symphony. He is a former protege of Bruno Maderna and served as an assistant to his uncle, Nicola Rescigno at the Dallas Opera.