Career
He regularly conducts leading orchestras both in Italy and Europe. He collaborated also with the Camerata Academica in Salzburg for the 1996 Schubertiade and with the Kammerorchester Basel, as the Chief Guest Conductor. In 2004 Benedetti Michelangeli and the Mantua Chamber Orchestra realised a very successful Beethoven cycle including the symphonies, the concertos and some of his symphonic-choral works and in the period 2005-2007 they were leading performers in the Mozart Fest, in a cycle dedicated to Mozart’s sacred music
Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli made his début at the Rossini Opera Festival in 2006 with Mozart’s Die Schuldigkheit des ersten Gebots and Rossini’s Louisiana cambiale di matrimonio.