Gianluca Capuano

Since 2019, Gianluca Capuano has been Chief Conductor of Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco. In 2022, he was awarded the prestigious Abbiati Prize.

He studied organ, composition, and conducting at the Conservatorio of his native Milan (Italy) and subsequently specialized in Early Music at the city’s Scuola Civica. He also completed a degree in theoretical philosophy at the University of Milan.

As a soloist and conductor, he has appeared throughout Europe, the United States, Russia, and Japan. In 2006, he founded the instrumental and vocal ensemble Il canto di Orfeo, with which he is devoted to a broad Baroque repertoire.

He gained international recognition in 2016 when he stepped in at short notice to conduct Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at the opening of the Edinburgh Festival. In Whitsun 2017, he made his Salzburg Festival debut with Ariodante and a concert performance of La donna del lago.

Engagements in the 2025/26 season include Il barbiere di Siviglia in Lucerne (Switzerland) and Martigny (Switzerland), La cenerentola at La Scala in Milan, Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Turin (Italy), Giulio Cesare in Zurich (Switzerland) and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Italy), Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno in Rome (Italy), as well as Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice on tour with Les Musiciens du Prince.