Since 2019, Gianluca Capuano has been musical director of Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco. In Milan, his hometown, he graduated in organ, composition and conducting at the Conservatory, studied early music performance at the Scuola Civica and graduated with honours in theoretical philosophy at the Università Statale. He dedicates himself to research in the field of musical aesthetics. He is artistic director of the festival “Musica negli horti” in Val d’Orcia.

He has been active as conductor, organist and continuist in Europe, the United States, Russia and Japan. In 2006 he founded “Il Canto di Orfeo”, an ensemble dedicated to European Baroque masterpieces, which he conducted for, among others, the Milano Arte Musica Festival (2017) and La morte d’Abel at the Salzburg Festival.

In 2016, he conducted Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at the Edinburgh Festival, in Paris and Baden Baden. Since then, many collaborations with Cecilia Bartoli and Les Musiciens du Prince: La Cenerentola in Monte Carlo, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Versailles, Luxembourg; Il turco in Italia in Monte Carlo; Ariodante, La donna del lago, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Alcina and a series of concerts at the Salzburg Festival; La clemenza di Tito in Lucerne; La Cenerentola, Il turco in Italia and a Gala Concert in Vienna; L’italiana in Algeri in Zurich; a series of concerts in the most important squares in Europe.

Other engagements, are worth mentioning: Catone in Utica, Gli uccellatori, Il matrimonio segreto, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Cologne; Idomeneo and Alcina at the Maggio Musicale in Florence; Pigmalione/Che originali! at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo; Le metamorfosi di Pasquale at La Fenice in Venice; La finta giardiniera in Winterthur, Zurich and Amsterdam; Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine in Cremona; L’elisir d’amore and the Weinachtsoratorium in Hamburg; Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Guillaume Tell at the Chorégies d’Orange; Il matrimonio segreto in Amsterdam; Il barbiere di Siviglia in Palermo; Mozart’s Requiem in Bari; Orlando Paladino, La Cenerentola, Iphigénie en Tauride in Zurich; Il maestro di cappella and Il segreto di Susanna in Genoa; Ariodante and Le nozze di Figaro in Moscow; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Lucerne; Il turco in Italia in Munich; L’elisir d’amore in Vienna.

He also collaborates with I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, the orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Philarmonisches Orchester Kiel and Concerto Köln.