Paolo Bressan

An internationally acclaimed conductor, Paolo Bressan was appointed “Head of Music and Chorus Director” of the Dallas Opera, in Texas, USA, so-called “La Scala West,” and is co-founder and general and artistic director of LacMus International Festival of Classical Music on Lake Como.
A graduate in conducting and piano from the Conservatorio “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan, where he also studied composition with M° Bruno Zanolini and choral conducting with M° Franco Monego, he perfected his studies in piano with M° Louis Lortie.
He obtained a master’s degree in conducting and vocal coaching at the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” in Weimar, Germany.
He has been assistant conductor to Christian Thielemann, Valery Gergiev and Daniele Gatti.
He began his career at the “Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater in Schwerin,” a historic theater in northern Germany. Here he worked as conductor, pianist and vocal coach, being able to develop a repertoire of more than 40 opera titles, numerous symphonic and symphonic-choral pieces.
He has conducted at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the “Smetana Hall” in Prague, the “Théâtre des Champs-Élysées” in Paris, the Spanish National Auditorium in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Mexico City, the Dallas Opera, the “Badisches Staatstheater” in Karlsruhe, the Flensburg Theater and the Croatian National Theater in Rijeka, among others.