Biography

An Italian conductor, he is invited to conduct both symphonic and operatic repertoire in some of the world’s most prestigious theatres and concert halls, including the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Klagenfurt Konzerthaus, the Herkulessaal in der Residenz München, the Smetana Hall and the Dvořák Hall at the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Arena Sferisterio in Macerata, the Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan, the Sala de Conciertos Felipe Villanueva in Mexico City, the Daejeon Art Center in South Korea, the Bulgaria Hall in Sofia and the Kazakhstan Central Concert Hall in Astana. He has led renowned ensembles including the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (ONPL) in France, the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (ANPO), the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Mexico State Symphony Orchestra (OSEM), the MAV Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the Daejeon Symphony Orchestra in South Korea, the Kazakhstan National Symphony Orchestra in Astana, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hradek Králové Philharmonic and the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra in the Czech Republic, the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra in Hungary and the Orquestra Sinfónica de Cascais in Portugal.

In Italy, he works with several orchestras. He is Artistic and Music Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Adriatico, with which he performs regularly at the Teatro Ventidio Basso in Ascoli Piceno, the Teatro dell’Aquila in Fermo, the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi and the Teatro Maria Caniglia in Sulmona. Since 2015, he has been invited every year to appear in the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo season. He has also conducted the Orchestra della Magna Grecia, the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Matera e della Basilicata and the United Europe Chamber Orchestra (UECO), performing, among other venues and festivals, at the Sala Verdi in Milan and the Nuova Consonanza contemporary music festival in Rome. His performances have been broadcast by Rai 3 and Radio3 Suite.

Since 2018, he has been Artistic and Music Director of the Civitanova all’Opera season, where he has conducted successful productions of La traviata, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cavalleria rusticana, Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, Nabucco and Così fan tutte. He has collaborated with celebrated singers including Raina Kabaivanska, Inès Salazar and Bruno de Simone.

In 2021, he was appointed Guest Conductor of the State Opera Varna to conduct three Verdi operas each year during the 2022–2024 seasons, including Nabucco, Ernani, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata and Un ballo in maschera.

His other opera engagements include Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Chelyabinsk Opera Theatre in Russia and L’elisir d’amore at the 20th Ópera en la Calle Festival in Tijuana, Mexico. In Italy, he has conducted La bohème and Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Marrucino in Chieti, La bohème at the Teatro D’Annunzio in Pescara, and Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il signor Bruschino and Suor Angelica in several historic theatres, as well as a semi-staged production of Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro dell’Aquila in Fermo.

The 2023 season saw his highly successful return to the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna and the Klagenfurt Konzerthaus.

In 2024, he conducted L’elisir d’amore and Don Giovanni in the Civitanova all’Opera season; Il trovatore, Nabucco and La traviata at the State Opera Varna; La traviata at the Karaganda Opera in Kazakhstan; and several symphonic concerts with the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Adriatico.

In December 2025, he made a highly successful debut with the Orquestra Sinfónica de Cascais in Portugal, conducting Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5.

In May 2026, he began his collaboration with the Teatro Nazionale dell’Opera Romana di Craiova, conducting Verdi’s Otello.

In August 2026, he will conduct a new production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Teatro Ventidio Basso in Ascoli Piceno.

His forthcoming engagements include concerts in the seasons of the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and the Orchestra Sinfonica della Calabria, as well as two opera productions at the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka (Fiume) and the Teatro dell’Opera Nazionale di Lodz in Poland. Further engagements include symphonic concerts and opera productions in the Civitanova all’Opera season, which this year reaches its eighth edition.

In 2004, Alfredo Sorichetti won the “Orchestra Favourite Award” at the 4th Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition. Since then, he has pursued an international career that has taken him to more than twenty countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, conducting over fifty orchestras.

He studied conducting at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Myung-Whun Chung, currently Music Director at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and with Ilija Musin, the legendary conducting teacher of the great Russian school. He also studied with Donato Renzetti, one of the foremost experts in the Italian operatic repertoire, at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese. He studied composition with Cesare Celsi and piano with Giovanni Valentini at the Conservatorio Gioachino Rossini in Pesaro, graduating with highest honours, and subsequently continued his piano studies with Sergio Fiorentino.