Giovanni Pacor

From march 2015 is musical and artistic director of the FVG Mitteleuropa Orchestra 2010 – 2014 is the general manager of the Carlo Felice Theatre of Genova
2008 – 2010 is the general director of the Greek National Opera of Athens.
He started studying the violin in his home town of Trieste where he obtained his diploma in 1980. Already a member of the Teatro Comunale Orchestra, he went on to specialise in orchestral conducting at the Vienna Music Academy under the guidance of Karl Österreicher. At the same time he was playing first violin at the Stadttheater in Baden in Vienna and was attending an orchestral conducting course with Franco Ferrara. In 1985 he passed his diploma in orchestral conducting with full marks and the following year he obtained his diploma in choral conducting at the B. Marcello conservatory in Venice.
In 1986 he was called upon to act as musical director for the Budapest Chamber Orchestra, a position that he held until 1992. With the Budapest Chamber Orchestra he conducted over 150 concerts throughout Europe with such soloists as J.P. Rampal, Nina Belina, Cecilia Gasdia, JESS Trio Vienna, Andras Adorian, etc. He began collaborating with the ‘A. Belli’ Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto in 1991 as music consultant and orchestra conductor where he worked with Ruggero Raimondi, Leo Nucci, Giorgio Merighi, Giusi Devinu, Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz and, in the same period, he also conducted a series of concerts in Rome at the Palazzo Farnese with the Chamber Orchestra from the S. Cecilia National Academy.
He was the ‘Generalmusikdirektor’ at the Stadttheater in Klagenfurt from 1993 to 1998 where he conducted Manon Lescaut, La Bohéme, Tosca, The Masked Ball, The Requiem Mass, Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana, Carmen, Così fan tutte, Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow and various symphonic concerts. 1994 saw him at the Bregenz Festival on invitation from Fabio Luisi to conduct Francesca da Rimini by Zandonai. In Pisa in 1996, he conducted Il Signor Bruschino and La Scala di Seta, Nabucco at Regensburg and La Traviata in Nuremburg. He conducted the orchestra of Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan and the Camerata Fiorentina in Florence.
From 1996 to 2002 he was the vice-Artistic Director at the ‘G. Verdi’ Teatro Comunale in Trieste and from 2002 to 2007 he was the Artistic Coordinator for the Arena di Verona. He also conducted the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baden- Württemberg Orchestra in Stuttgart, the Niederoesterreich Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna, the Philharmonic orchestra in Graz and the Festival Orchestra of Tenerife.
Since 1998 he has been the musical consultant for the European Opera Centre in Manchester where he conducted three projects during their European tour: ‘Lucio Silla’ by Mozart at the Copenhagen Royal Theatre in 1998, ‘La Scala di Seta’ by Rossini and ‘Il Maestro di Cappella’ by Cimarosa at the ‘Tibor Varga’ Festival in 2000 in Switzerland and during 2007-08, he conducted in Liverpool the first modern version of “Emilia di Liverpool” by Donizetti.
In 2002 he conducted a new production of ‘La Bohème’ at the Teatro Municipale in Salerno and in 2003 he led ‘L’elisir d’amore’ and a new production of ‘Don Pasquale’ at the Graz Opera House.
He recorded “Der todt und das Maedchen” by Schubert with G. Mahler’s arrangement for chamber orchestras with the Budapest Chamber Orchestra, the first full-length version of concerts for the trumpet by Giuseppe Torelli with Mauro Maur and the two “Divertimenti” by Leo Weiner. He was the first to translate Leopold Mozart’s ‘Scuola di violino’ into Italian for the Ut-Orpheus in Bologna and the new rhythmic version of Strauss’ Viennese Blood’ created for Weinberger-London / Suvini Zerboni-Milan is also due to him.