{"id":20447,"date":"2025-10-16T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/cast\/cilluffo-francesco-conductor\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:48:12","slug":"cilluffo-francesco-conductor","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/cilluffo-francesco-conductor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cilluffo Francesco, conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Francesco Cilluffo was born in Italy. In the season of 14-15 he opened the Maggio Musicale in Florence conducting <strong>Il campiello<\/strong> (Wolf-Ferrari). Other recent operas he conducted include<strong> Le nozze di Figaro<\/strong> (Mozart), <strong>Der Konig Kandaules<\/strong> (Zemlinsky) in Palermo, <strong>Il trovatore<\/strong> (Verdi) in Milan and Como, <strong>L\u2019Arlesiana<\/strong> (Cilea) in Jesi, <strong>Cavalleria rusticana<\/strong> (Mascagni) in Sassari, <strong>Tancredi<\/strong> (Rossini) in Brescia, <strong>Il barbiere di Siviglia<\/strong> (Rossini) in Genoa, <strong>L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore<\/strong> (Donizetti) in Parma and Modena and many other operas. He conducts orchestras in concerts all over the world including in Russia, Chile, Italy and other countries. He is also a composer whose opera <strong>Il caso Mortara<\/strong> premiered in New York in 2010. <\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">At the Israeli Opera he conducted:<br \/><b>La boh\u00e8me <\/b>(2017)<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><strong>Madama Butterfly <\/strong>(2016) &#8211; Opera in the Park<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><strong>Rigoletto <\/strong>(2016) &#8211; Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><strong>Romeo et Juliette<\/strong> (2016)<\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><strong>L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>(2015) &#8211; Jerusalem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Cilluffo was born in Italy. In the season of 14-15 he opened the Maggio Musicale in Florence conducting Il campiello (Wolf-Ferrari). 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