Nicola Colabianchi - conductor, composer, pianist, librettist. Has been Artistic Director of the “Teatro dell’Opera di Roma”.
As a conductor (graduating, he was assistant to Giuseppe Patanè collaborating on opera, concert and recording productions, with such artists as Domingo, Pavarotti, Krauss, Ramey, Ughi, etc.), he boasts numerous television appearances, including those in prime time on RAI 1 in the competition of opera singers “Mettiamoci all’Opera” (2009/12).
In addition to numerous operas (including Mefistofele, Manon Lescaut, Attila, Aida, Un Ballo in Maschera, Nabucco, Carmen and many others), he conducted in Hong Kong first Chinese performance of Massenet’s Manon and the first Albanian performance of Strauss’s Salome in Tirana. Among the many symphonic concerts he conducted, it is worth noting that of 2013 in the Vatican City, with 8000 members of the audience and broadcast on RAI 1 and RAI 5.
As a composer (graduated from the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, he was a student of Ferdinandi, Bellandi, Gigante, Guaccero, Renzi, Marinuzzi), he is the author of symphonic, chamber music, and new orchestrations (Wesendonk Lieder, 4 Letzte Lieder, Chopin second piano concerto) performed in Italy and abroad. He composed the opera “Il Mago” on his own libretto: the first opera inspired by a comic (Mandrake the Magician), premiered in “Teatro Brancaccio” of Rome, under his baton, in December 2000.
Following the tradition of conductors, he often plays the piano in concerts with singers.
Thanks to his deep knowledge of Opera and historical voices, he has been author and anchorman of almost 120 monographic radio broadcasts about singing recordings from the origin of phonography to the “Sixties” (RAI International).
For eight years, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of “Teatro dell’Opera di Roma” and also on the Board of the Orchestra Regionale del Lazio.
He is a music columnist for the online newspaper “L’Indro”.
He is currently a professor of Theory of Harmony and Analysis at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.
He was the artistic director of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome and from 2019 to 2025, Superintendent and artistic director of Ente Lirico di Cagliari.
From this year, he has been the Superintendent of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.