Paolo Bressan

Italian conductor, Paolo Bressan, has performed with the Dallas Opera over the last several seasons and assisted Music Director Emmanuel Villaume on several productions with the company. Maestro Bressan was educated at the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan, Italy and at the Hochschule für Musik “Franz Liszt” in Weimar. His conducting has brought him to the Mecklenburgische Staatstheater Schwerin and Theater Kiel. He also served as principal conductor and artistic administrator of the Schwerin Youth Symphony Orchestra and was the founder of the “Jugendsinfonie Orchester Festival.” Bressan has conducted Der Freischütz (Flensburg), Die Zauberflöte (Karlsruhe), Così (Vendome, France) and has been engaged at the Salzburg Festival over the last several seasons and was recently the assistant to Valery Gergiev for Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra.