The Opera Company of Middlebury (Vermont,m U.S.) has announced Filippo Ciabatti as Music Director from 2024. Ciabatti held the position of Interim Music Director during the 2023 season. Now he has signed a three-year renewable contract.
A native of Florence, Italy, Ciabatti has appeared as a guest conductor with numerous orchestras in Europe and the Americas. Starting this October, he will serve as Assistant Conductor of Boston Baroque, the first conductor to be named to that position in the renowned ensemble’s 50-year history. He is the founding Artistic Director of Upper Valley Baroque, a professional orchestral and choral ensemble specializing in Baroque music, which after only two seasons has already received critical acclaim and regularly performs to sold-out houses.
Ciabatti is the Director of Orchestral and Choral Programs at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College.