Carlo Montanaro, conductor, was born in Italy. His operatic repertoire includes Tosca, La boheme, Madama Butterfly, La fanciulla del west (Puccini), Werther (Massenet), Carmen (Bizet), Rigoletto, La traviata, Il trovatore, Simon Boccanegra, Ernani, Nabucco, Attila (Verdi), Maria Stuarda, L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il turco in Italia (Rossini), Fedora (Giordano), La Juive (Halevy), Mefistofele (Boito), Norma (Bellini) and others. He conducts in the opera houses of Paris, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Seol, Sydney, San Francisco, Warsaw, Seattle, Frankfurt, Dallas, Melbourne, Montreal, Budapest, Hamburg, Naples, Bilbao, Dresden, Bologna, Florence, Munich, Tokyo, Rome, Palermo, Verona, Parma and others. At the Israeli Opera he conducted Un ballo in maschera (Verdi).