Year 2026
A mutual affection for Sardinia
Beatrice Venezi, conductor: “The beauty of music can help young people and society”
RAI2 – “2 di Picche”. Tommaso Cerno talks about Beatrice Venezi
Beatrice Venezi – Response to ‘Report’ regarding the ‘Taormina Arte’ feature: truth and transparency
Year 2024
LA REPUBBLICA/PALERMO, 17 JANUARY 2024 (by Irene Carmina) – Beatrice Venezi: “Me, a fascist? Ridiculous criticism.”. ”I will continue to work with the Symphony Orchestra in the future“ (La Repubblica, 17 January 2024). The Conductor is rehearsing at the Politeama: ”We haven’t discussed the artistic direction, but we are planning concerts for next season”.
Year 2023
LA STAMPA, 6 AUGUST 2023 (by Andrea Malaguti) – Beatrice Venezi: “They’re attacking me because I’m not some spoilt rich girl from Milan’s high society.”. “Conducting is an act of faith and a team effort. You have to get the musicians to agree, but in the end, you’re the only one who makes the decision. I believe in God, my country and my family. I’m a conservative and I take offence when people call me a ”little fascist’.”.
Year 2021
YouTube, 5 March 2021: Beatrice Venezi at the 2021 Sanremo Festival – The young, internationally renowned Conductor takes to the stage at the Ariston as co-host alongside Amadeus and Fiorello.
VANITY FAIR ITALIA, 14 DECEMBER 2021 (by Giuditta Avellina) – Beatrice Venezi: “Women don’t need any extra help”. Against gender quotas, in favour of meritocracy. Heroines It is the Conductor’s latest album, an adventurous musical journey through the heroines of the past and everyday female courage. Her own? «Evita Perón and my mother.»
Year 2020
LA REPUBBLICA, 7 MARCH 2020 (by Maria Novella De Luca)). Beatrice Venezi. “I conduct the orchestra in heels. And I believe in women’s networking”. Of course, having long blonde hair doesn’t help, but then, when it comes to professionalism, everything changes.
ierioggidomani.wordpress.com, 26 May 2020 (by Matteo Firmi). “Let’s fight with music”: an interview with Beatrice Venezi. The new featured artist in our “Let’s Fight with Music” column is Beatrice Venezi, a young Conductor from Lucca, born in 1990. She studied piano and conducting and graduated with first-class honours from the Milan Conservatoire. She is the author of the book *Allegro con fuoco*. Falling in Love with Classical Music, she is now principal conductor of the Orchestra Milano Classica and principal guest conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana. .
LA STAMPA, 21 AUGUST 2020 (by Lara Loreti). Beatrice Venezi: “Prejudices against women can be overcome by ignoring them”. «My colleagues are addressed with grand titles such as »maestro” and “distinguished professor”. They just call me Beatrice. But that’s fine by me.’.
SBS – SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE, AUSTRALIA, 20 DECEMBER 2020 – Beatrice Venezi. The conductor fighting for gender equality. “You cannot deprive the country of its identity,” says Conductor Beatrice Venezi, speaking about how politicians neglect opera and classical music in Italy.
Year 2019
IL SECOLO XIX, 29 AUGUST 2019 (by Alessandro Grassi Peroni) – Festival della Mente, Everything is ready in Sarzana for the sixteenth edition. Fourteen events are already completely sold out, with people scrambling for the last few ticketsi.
CHRISTIAN FAMILY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2019 – Jump, the project that helps young people take the “big leap’“. On Tuesday 1 October, the young Conductor Beatrice Venezi (pictured above) will open the academic year of the JUMP Job-University Matching Project, organised by the Rui Foundation and sponsored by the Politecnico di Milano and the Università Cattolica. Each year, the project involves 500 students from all faculties in a programme that helps them combine specialist knowledge with soft skills.
OPEN.IT, 18 OCTOBER 2019 (by Olga Bibus and Vincenzo Monaco) – Beatrice Venezi, Italy’s youngest conductor: “Study hard, but remember to make mistakes” – The video. She was born in Lucca, is 29 years old and has been conducting orchestras around the world since she was 22. Today, 18 October, her first album is being released: *My Journey – Puccini’s Symphonic Works*.
Year 2018
LA REPUBBLICA/ECONOMY, 8 MAY 2018 – The 2018 Corporate Digital Learning Summit gets underway on 10 May. A key event for finding out about the current state of digital learning in Italy and abroad.
FORBES ITALY, 14 JUNE 2018 – Forbes Live: Italian ‘Under 30’ award winners honoured in Rimini. The award was presented to Davide Fioranelli, Francesco Nazari Fusetti and Beatrice Venezi.
FORBES ITALIA, 18 JUNE 2018 – Beatrice Venezi: “I’ll be bringing Puccini’s music to the Summer Festival”. Beatrice Venezi, named one of Italy’s 100 most influential young people under 30, was the highlight of the Forbes Live event in Rimini.
LA NAZIONE, 30 JULY 2018 (by Laura Sartini) – Lucca: Puccini concert at the Summer Festival – the city calls for an encore. A unanimous chorus of support for the initiative: “Let’s do it again next year”.
Year 2017
ROLLING STONE, 14 MAY 2017 – by Matteo Zampollo. Beatrice Venezi, the most “classical” of revolutionaries. A change of mindset is needed within orchestras. This is according to Italy’s only female conductor under the age of 30.
TEDx BERGAMO 14 MAY 2017 YOUTUBE – Go on, teacher! In this talk, conductor Beatrice Venezi discusses the role of the conductor (which is also applicable to business managers) and her vision of innovation in music – innovation that is neither plausible nor possible without an understanding of our past.
CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 27 DECEMBER 2017 – The 50 women of 2017 according to the Courier. Pioneers, creatives, influencers, revolutionaries, resilient women, non-conformists. Here are our 50 women of 2017. A mosaic of extraordinary lives, brought to you by the journalists at Courier.
Year 2016
CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 (by Irene Soave) – Rap and classical music come to the aid of the South
“Music serves to motivate.”. Rocco Hunt meets the conductor Beatrice Venezi. And he says: “On the ”In our region, music has an added value: to speak out, to inspire and to motivate.".
FAMIGLIA CRISTIANA, 9 SEPTEMBER 2016 (by Paolo Perazzolo) – Beatrice, Italy’s youngest Conductor. Beatrice Venezi, aged 25, who is at the helm of the new Scarlatti Orchestra of Naples, will be in conversation with Rocco Hunt at the MTV Digital Days
Year 2015
NUOVA ORCHESTRA SCARLATTI, 13 NOVEMBER 2015 – Serenate – Naples, Diocesan Museum, Friday 13 November 2015, 8.30 pm.
Year 2014
NAPOLI POST, 4 November 2014 (by Elisabetta Donadono) – Beatrice Venezi, aged 24, will conduct Nuova Scarlatti at the Diocesan Museum (Napoli Post, 4 November 2014).
Edited by Barbara Marangoni (LA REPUBBLICA, 20 JULY 2018): Day and night, week of 23–29 July. Lucca Summer Festival.
Valerio Cappelli (CORRIERE SELLA SERA, 24 JULY 2018): Beatrice Venezi: “Trousers? No, thank you – a skirt looks better on the podium.” The youngest female Conductor in our country (aged 28), named by *Forbes* as one of the most influential people under 30: «It’s wrong to imitate men when conducting.».
Nicolò Delvecchio (La Repubblica, 16 November 2018): Concert for Syria: music and solidarity in Milan on 28 November. The UNHCR initiative at the Franco Parenti Theatre. And the UN has sounded the alarm: “The war continues in the country; 30 children are reported to have been killed in the village of Al Shafa”.
Elisabetta Muritti (La Repubblica, 5 April 2019): Maestro Beatrice Venezi tells us what Puccini’s pop music is like. She loves the Italian symphonic repertoire and Bernstein. She recounts the plots of operas on Instagram. Beatrice Venezi, one of Europe’s youngest (and sexiest) Conductors, dreams of one thing above all – or rather, two: to make it to La Scala in Milan and to convince twenty-somethings that classical music has a lot to do with their lives.
Simona Romagnol(La Stampa, 7 May 2019): “Conductor” Beatrice Venezi talks about notes and sheet music in the bookshop.
Beatrice Manca (Il Fatto Quotidiano, 12 May 2019): Beatrice Venezi, long-serving Conductor: “Playing music? It’s like civic education. Politics? It forgets about the theatre. But it goes there for the photos.”.
Nicoletta Spolini (VOGUE ITALIA, 23 MAY 2019): Beatrice Venezi at the Wired Next Fest 2019. She is 28 years old and is now a world-renowned Conductor. Her mission – at the festival and beyond – is to dispel a number of preconceptions. About classical music (and beyond).
(La Repubblica, 29 June 2019): Summer in Naples: here is the Festival of the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti. ”Unimusic” will take place from 22 June to 27 July.
(La Repubblica, 28 July 2019): Among the events on 30 July: Capalbio Libri.
Barbara Visentin (CORRIERE DELLA SERA, 19 AUGUST 2019): At 29, she is the youngest person in the world to have already launched an international career. “On social media, I try to get young people involved too.”.
Olga Bibus and Vincenzo Monaco (OPEN, 18 OCTOBER 2019): Beatrice Venezi, Italy’s youngest conductor: «Study hard, but remember to make mistakes» – The video.
Nina Verdelli (VANITY FAIR, 28 OCTOBER 2019): Beatrice Venezi: “Me, a maestro in a skirt”. Beautiful and adored on social media, she is a star abroad, yet in Italy she still struggles to get into the theatres that matter. But Beatrice Venezi isn’t giving up. On the contrary, she has a mission to fulfil.
Stefania Aoi (La Repubblica, 12 November 2019): Frescobaldi: rewarding boldness. On Thursday evening, the Tuscan marquises’ company presented the Leonia Award to Conductor Beatrice Venezi. Meanwhile, it is aiming to consolidate its position in Asian markets and to expand.
edited by Magenta Florence (La Repubblica, 25 November 2019): A Fair, Music, & International Day: A Women’s Week. The charming and talented Tuscan conductor Beatrice Venezi, now world-renowned, makes her debut at 9.00 pm at the Teatro Regio, conducting the Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino
Gabriella Crema (La Repubblica, 2 December 2019): Beatrice Venezi with the Regio Philharmonic Orchestra, The Stranglers live at the Concordia.
(LA STAMPA, 2 DECEMBER 2019): The young conductor Beatrice Venezi makes her debut at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
edited by Magenta Florence (La Repubblica, 30 December 2019): Florence & Tuscany.