CLAUDIA PATANE'
Guest conducting engagements have taken Claudia Patanè, among others, to the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, where she is guest conductor since 2019, the Erfurt Theater, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice.
Her debut at the Belcanto Opera Festival Rossini in Wildbad in summer 2025, where she conducted the Petite Messe Solennelle and the L’Inganno Felice, has been greeted with a great success and highlights both from audience and critics.
On February 2024 she conducted at the Teatro Bellini in Catania the first performance of the cantata Le Ragioni degli Angeli by the italian composer Emanuele Casale, greeted with huge enthusiasm both from audience and critics. The repertoire of the captivating and versatile conductor ranges from early music to contemporary works, and from symphonic to opera, ballet and musical theater.
Claudia Patanè was guest conductor at the Theater Erfurt in Germany. Here she conducted the musical Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim and the ballet Face Me/Le Sacre du Printemps with music by Michael Krause and Igor Stravinskij, as a co-production between the Deutsches Nationaltheater and the Staatskapelle Weimar as well as the Tanztheater Erfurt Ester Ambrosino.
She served both as assistant and guest conductor at the Joseph Kajetan Tyla Theater in Plzen (Czech Republic), in productions of ballet as well as opera.
As a young musician she gained her first experience as a principal conductor of the orchestra of the Conservatory “Santa Cecilia” in the 2015/ 2016 season, where she played a key role in shaping the “Prendiamo nota” initiative at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome and conducted, among others, the premiere of three operas by contemporary composers.
Claudia Patanè first studied piano at the “Vincenzo Bellini” Conservatory in Catania and conducting at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome. After graduating, she continued her studies in conducting at the “Accademia Musicale Pescarese” under the direction of Maestro Donato Renzetti, who described her as «one of the most interesting talents of her generation». She participated in masterclasses, among others, with Johannes Schlaefli, James Lowe and Norbert Baxa. She is currently a PhD student in music theory and analysis at the University of Roma Tor Vergata.
Reviews
Opéra Magazine (06.09.2025), Alfred Caron
L’Inganno Felice
«La cheffe sicilienne Claudia Patanè dirige l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Cracovie avec un sens subtil des nuances dynamiques, beaucoup d’attention au plateau et une vivacité qui met remarquablement en valeur la qualité des pupitres solistes et le charme de la partition de Rossini.»
Forum Opera (25.07.2025), Maurice Salles
L’Inganno Felice
«Claudia Patanè, qui préfère qu’on l’appelle « chef » porte un nom rendu glorieux par deux hommes, Franco et son fils Giuseppe, mais elle assure qu’il s’agit d’une simple homonymie. En tout cas, si l’hérédité n’a rien à y voir, son talent est une conquête toute personnelle et on ne doute pas que ce chef fera son chemin : elle n’a rien à envier à ses collègues masculins quant à l’énergie, et elle a manifestement une connaissance très fine des dynamiques rossiniennes.»
I Vespri (06.02.2024), Aldo Mattina
Le Ragioni degli Angeli
«Molto accurata, con grande eleganza del gesto, la direzione di Claudia Patanè, la quale ad ogni nuova esecuzione ci sembra raggiunga una sempre maggiore maturità interpretativa, qui sicuramente anche di grande intesa con il complesso del Bellini.»
Daily Maverick (31.08.2023)
Tchaikovsky’s, Pathetique Symphony
«[…] The conductor, Claudia Patanè, brought her Italianate elegance to both works, and drew a stunningly crisp, intensely colourful and ultimately moving rendition of Tchaikovsky’s final, most heart-wrenching symphony. The grand sweep and powerful forwards momentum of the first three movements gave way to a tragic close, where the final B-minor chord fades into ashes and dust. […]»
Amusio (27.02.2022)
Face Me/Sacre du Printemps
«[…] All dies wurde am heutigen premierenabend einmal vom philharmonischen orchester (mit elektronik) unter der leitung von Claudia Patanè noch mehr markant als (nur) brillant eingelöst. »
Das Musical Magazine, Hartmut H. Forche und Heinz – Jurgen Rickert (11.2021)
Sweeney Todd
«[…] Dirigentin Claudia Patanè am Pult des immer sch: Philharmonischen Orchesters durchleuchtet diglich Ku die komplex gebaute Partitur Sondheims, gefälliger,, die Klangeffekte, Balladen, Chöre, Orgel- klänge wie im Horrorfilm, ist wuchtig- expressiv, mit Temperament, spannendem Thrill, dann wieder zart emotional […]»
Thüringen Allgemeine, Michael Helbing (07.11.2021)
Sweeney Todd
«[…] Gastdirigentin Claudia Patanè arbeitet sich mit dem Philharmonischen Orchester Erfurt souverän durch harmonische und disharmonische Strukturen der Partitur, die Filigranes wie Pompöses, Sanfter wie Schrilles umfasst, eingängige Melodien und eher ungefällige Klangteppiche.
La Sicilia, Carmelita Celi (07.09.2020)
Idomeneo
«[…] La bacchetta di Claudia Patanè è decisamente cresciuta in piglio direttoriale, sostanza interpretativa, nonchè ottimo sostegno nei recitativi accompagnati.»