San Diego Opera debut. Italian conductor Daniele Callegari was the Principal Director of the Wexford Opera Festival from 1998 to 2001 and was the Chief Conductor of the Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra in Antwerp from 2002 to 2008. He is a regular guest at the world’s leading opera companies and symphonies including Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall of New York, Canadian Opera of Toronto, Washington Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Vienna State Opera, Carlo Felice di Genova, Comunale di Bologna, Dresden Musik Festspiele, Frankfurt Oper, Gurzenich Orchester, Liceu of Barcelona, Macerata Opera, Massimo di Palermo, Massimo Bellini di Catania, M.D.R Orchester, Muncher Rundfunk Orchester, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, New Japan Foundation, Opéra Marseille, Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, Orquestra Sinfonica de Madrid, Philarmonique de Montecarlo, Regio di Parma, Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Théatre de La Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma. Recent operas he has conducted include Rigoletto, La bohème, Les Huguenots, Falstaff, Così fan tutte, I due Foscari, Turandot, Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana, A Masked Ball, La traviata, La forza del destino, Aida, Simon Boccanegra, The Elixir of Love, Madama Butterfly and Carmen, among many others. His discography includes Alice by Testoni and Wolf-Ferrari’s I quattro Rusteghi for Agorà, La Traviata for Bongiovanni, La Gioconda by Ponchielli, Mascagni’s Messa di Gloria, Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, Il Trovatore and Oberto conte di San Bonifacio and a CD dedicated to concert arias by Mozart for Fonè.