Paolo Spadaro Munitto

Conductor, harpsichordist and pianist, Paolo Spadaro Munitto has been Principal Conductor of the Jerusalem Lyric Opera Festival since the 2021-22 season and first level Maestro di sala (Musical assistant) at the Teatro alla Scala since 2002. He studied solo piano with Emilio Bonino, composition with Paolo Arcà and Gianni Possio, orchestral conducting with Donato Renzetti and Gustav Kuhn, jazz music with Franco D’Andrea, chamber music as both pianist and harpsichordist with Daniela Uccello and Maria Cecilia Farina. Artistically raised in Scala side-by-side with the greatest conductors in the world (Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Myung Wung Chung, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Oren, Gustavo Dudamel, Georges Pretre...), Paolo Spadaro Munitto is at home in both the