Daniele Rustioni

Conductor Daniele Rustioni has been active in both opera and symphonic music internationally as well as in his native Italy. Rustioni's career as an orchestral conductor began in 2011 when he was named the principal guest conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana; he remains the orchestra's artistic director. In 2012, Rustioni conducted the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony on a recital album by bass-baritone Erwin Schrott. Rustioni became the principal conductor of France's Opéra national de Lyon in 2017, and in 2019, he took up the baton as chief conductor of the Ulster Orchestra. Rustioni is married to violinist Francesca Dego, and the pair have recorded concertos of Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari together. He backed cellist Enrico Dindo on a 2023 recording of Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, with the Orchestra della Toscana.