Bruno Moretti

Bruno Moretti (born 1957) is an Italian composer, pianist, and conductor. He has composed ballet music (as well as theatre, cinema and television music) working in collaboration with the choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti. He is also an accompanist for singers.

Biography Moretti was born in Rome, and initially studied with Armando Renzi. Then he became Nino Rota's assistant for creating the opera Napoli milionaria at the Spoleto festival in 1977. Later, he studied conducting at Siena's Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He made his conducting debut in 1979 at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma with Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. He has conducted throughout Italy and in England, Israel, the Far East and North America.

Works Opera Lady E (1999), opera in two acts to a libretto by Pasquale Plastino and Silvia Ranfagni

Ballet Caravaggio (2008), a two-act ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti. Moretti wrote the score based on several works by Claudio Monteverdi. Moretti's interpretation was reviewed as "light ... then darker and always varied in texture ... romanticised Monteverdi, but it fits the stage action perfectly." Don Giovanni, emozioni di un mito (1996), for Il Balletto di Toscana Comoedia (1998), for Aterballetto Vespro (2002), for New York City Ballet In Vento (2006) Oltremare (2008)

Orchestral music Prometeo per orchestra, symphonic poem

Reviews Vespro, New York Times, Anna Kisselgoff, 10 May 2002 Vespro , Village Voice, Deborah Jowitt, 14 May 2002 In Vento, New York Times, John Rockwell, 6 May 2006 In Vento, Village Voice, Deborah Jowitt, 9 May 2006 In Vento, New York Observer, Robert Gottlieb, 4 June 2006 In Vento , New York Sun, Joel Lobenthal, 8 May 2006 Oltremare, New York Times, Alastair Macaulay, 25 January 2008 , New York Sun, Joel Lobenthal, 25 January 2008