Massimiliano Caldi (Milano 1967), graduated in piano, composition and orchestra conducting, has a big international experience in the fields of symphonic music, opera, operetta and ballet as well as an attention on contemporary music and on the revival of the 19th century opera. He stands out for his high professional preparation and for his bright and linear directorial style.

Among the most recent commitments in opera field, Caldi conducted the Roma Tre Orchestra in the performance of “L’Elisir d’amore” at Teatro Verdi in Pisa and “Cleopatra”, a new opera production, in Rome and Catanzaro. He also conducted Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni in “Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze” in Empoli. In Poland, he conducted the Opera Wrocławska for the performances of “La Cenerentola” and “The Magic Flute in Wrocław”, with the direction of Michał Znaniecki. Still in 2023 and 2024, Massimiliano Caldi conducted two new opera productions of the Opera i Filharmonia Podlaska of Białystok: “Via Crucis” by Paweł Łukaszewski and “Pagliacci/Cavalleria Rusticana” combined for the first time in stage form in the original edition curated by Bärenreiter and directed by Michał Znaniecki. Caldi also conducted the Baltic Opera of Gdańsk for the debut of “Don Bucefalo”. Moreover, he has been regularly invited to the International “Mozartiana” Festival in Gdańsk/Oliwa, where he has conducted the Baltic Philharmonic “F. Chopin” since 2012.

In the symphonic field, among the most important commitments of the last years, we can mention the concerts at the head of the Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka, Filharmonia Koszalińska, I Virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala at the Easter Festival L. v. Beethoven and at Teatro alla Scala, the debut at Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the one at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari (leading the respective orchestras), I Virtuosi Italiani in Verona; abroad he was in Dubai, in Turkey with the Izmir State Symphony Orchestra, in Skopje with the Philharmonic Orchestra of North Macedonia, in Romania with the Orchestra Filarmonica de Stat Sibiu.

Winner of the first prize at “G. Fitelberg” International Competition (1999), Caldi has been the Principal Conductor of the “A. Malawski” Precarpathian Philharmonic of Rzeszów from 2017 to 2022. Moreover, he has been President of the Jury of the International Piano Competition Massarosa – IX and X edition (2018 and 2019), teacher of the Florence Conducting Masterclass (2015-2017), Principal Conductor and Artistic Consultant of “St. Moniuszko” Koszalin Philharmonic (2014-2017), Artistic Director of Silesian Chamber Orchestra (Katowice, 2006-2010) and Principal Conductor of “Milano Classica” Chamber Orchestra (1998-2009).

In Italy he has collaborated with Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, as well as with the most important orchestras including Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai di Torino, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra Sinfonica della Città Metropolitana di Bari, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra della Fondazione “Arturo Toscanini” di Parma, Filarmonica Marchigiana, Orchestra Sinfonica Giovanile del Piemonte, Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Orchestra Regionale di Roma e del Lazio, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Orchestra della “Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese”, Orchestra “Filarmonia Veneta”, Orchestra del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Roma Tre Orchestra.

In Poland he regularly performes in the most important Philharmonic, in some opera houses (Teatro Grande in Poznań and Opera Baltica in Gdansk) and in the main Polish festivals. He also performed with the “Sinfonia Varsovia”, with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the “Sinfonia Iuventus” Orchestra of Warsaw, the Youth Orchestra of the Beethoven Academy of Krakow, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio of Katowice, the “K. Szymanowski” Philharmonic Orchestra from Krakow, the “A. Rubinstein” Philharmonic Orchestra from Lodz and the “M. Karlowicz” Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra from Szczecin.

Caldi has recorded for Acte Préalable, the CD Raul Koczalski – Piano concertos (January 2018) and for Sony Classical, the CD Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Riccardo Malipiero Cello concertos (April 2018).

Massimiliano Caldi is the only Italian who won the Gazzetta Italia Prize – 2018 edition for having distinguished himself in the promotion of Italian music in Poland and the Polish one in Italy.

In January 2021, Maestro Caldi discussed – obtaining full marks – his PhD thesis entitled “Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni: fidelity to the text or performance tradition?” At the Musical University “F. Chopin” in Warsaw, on which he has worked in the previous 3 years, consulting among other things some manuscripts at the “S. Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome and at the Stanford University Music Library in California.

The experience as principal teacher of the Florence Conducting Masterclass, which ended in 2017, started again more recently in 2022 at the “B. Marcello” Conservatory in Venice, in 2023 at Conservatory “N. Sala” in Benevento and in 2024 at Conservatory “N. Rota” in Monopoli.