SINFONIA DELL'ACQUA

Sinfonia in quattro movimenti per flauto e arpa concertanti, orchestra, voce narrante (2026)

 

Luigi De Filippi – Curriculum vitae

Luigi De Filippi — composer, violinist, and more — studied academic subjects at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, while mastering less academic repertoires through hands-on experience. After completing his studies, he embarked on a professional career, serving as concertmaster for the orchestras of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and Teatro La Fenice in Venice, followed by tenures with the London Mozart Players and the Flanders Orchestra in Antwerp (Belgium). He has performed as both soloist and conductor at venues such as the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall, and Barbican Centre in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, ​​and the Auckland Festival (New Zealand).

Luigi De Filippi has recorded several CDs as soloist, chamber musician, and conductor, including: Giuseppe Tartini’s sonatas for solo violin; Georg Philipp Telemann’s Fantasias for solo violin; the complete piano trios of Clara and Robert Schumann; trios by Théodore Gouvy, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel; the Baroque opera La Diana Schernita by Giacinto Cornachioli; previously unreleased music by Ruggero Leoncavallo and Francesco Saverio Mercadante; and 19th-century Fantasias based on operas by Giuseppe Verdi. De Filippi has also appeared in television and radio broadcasts, featuring in interviews and live performances for BBC Radio 3, RAI Radio 3, Vatican Radio, and others.

He is the music director of OperaExtravaganza, a lively cultural association based in the Tuscia area of ​​Viterbo, whose mission is to bring classical music and opera to unconventional venues; in 2015, the association launched the Adopt a Theatre project, aimed at showcasing small, historic Italian theatres. In 2021, OE produced an Opéra comique titled Il Segreto della Gioconda, with a libretto by Monica Sanfilippo and music by Luigi De Filippi. The same authors also wrote a Pasticcio titled La Locanda dell’Opera (staged in 2022), a Melologue titled Otone, il destino di un Imperatore (staged in 2023), the intermezzo Conosci te stesso (?) (staged in 2024), and a symphonic work, Sinfonia dell’Acqua, which premiered in July 2026.