Sesto Quatrini (born 1984 in Rome) studied trumpet, conducting and composition, graduating from the “A. Casella” Conservatory, L’Aquila, and the “Claudio Abbado” Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan. He has been assistant conductor to Fabio Luisi at the New York Metropolitan Opera and at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, where in 2017 he made his Italian opera debut with Verdi’s Un giorno di regno.
From 2018 to 2023 he was artistic director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. During his tenure, he conducted I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Bohème, Candide, Madama Butterfly, Anna Bolena, Don Carlo, La Juive, Der Rosenkavalier, Rigoletto, the Verdi Requiem, Goyescas, Aida and Les Contes d'Hoffmann, opera galas and orchestral concerts.
Sesto Quatrini also devotes his attention to the rediscovery of rare or lesser-known works. To date, he has conducted Verdi’s Un giorno di regno, Giulietta e Romeo by Vaccaj (2018, Dynamic DVD), Coscoletto by Offenbach and Ecuba by Manfroce, all at the Festival della Valle d'Itria; Francesca da Rimini by Mercadante (Japan Opera Foundation, Tokyo, 2019) and Donizetti’s Chiara e Serafina (Festival Donizetti Opera 2022, Dynamic DVD).
Along with concerts conducted at the Rossini Opera Festival, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, other highlights among his recent engagements include L’elisir d’amore at the Royal Opera House, London and at the Teatro Regio, Parma; Don Pasquale at the Opernhaus Zürich; Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Regio, Turin; Norma at La Monnaie, Brussels and at the Teatro Regio, Parma, Teatro Pavarotti-Freni, Modena, and Teatro Municipale, Piacenza; Il turco in Italia at Glyndebourne and at the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa; La Traviata at the Royal Danish Opera; Le nozze di Figaro at the ROH Muscat; Anna Bolena at the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa; Rigoletto at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Aida and Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Lithuanian National Opera; Madama Butterfly at La Fenice, and the two versions of Otello (by Rossini and Verdi) at the Oper Frankfurt.
The 2024/2025 season includes engagements at the Staatsoper Hamburg as guest conductor for Carmen, at ABAO Bilbao Opera for the opening of the season with a new production of Don Pasquale, at Oper Köln for a new production of Nabucco, the Opéra National de Lyon for Madama Butterfly, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli for Roméo et Juliette, and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma for L’Italiana in Algeri.
Other engagements include concerts with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, Piacenza, Trento and Bolzano, and the 2025 New Year concert with the Orchestra Farnesiana at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza.