Maestro Rolando Salazar has a truly expansive operatic and symphonic repertoire, and this season’s production of Macbeth marks his fiftieth production with the Atlanta Opera as conductor, assistant conductor, and chorus master. He recently made his Opera Columbus debut conducting Astor Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires, which he also assisted with at The Atlanta Opera.
Conducting credits with The Atlanta Opera include Pagliacci, The Barber of Seville (MainStage debut), Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, and student matinees of La bohème and Don Pasquale. Maestro Salazar has also been featured as pianist in Love Letters to Atlanta, performing alongside singers Morris Robinson, Jamie Barton, Ryan McKinny, and Kevin Burdette. Recent conducting credits include Susannah and Die Zauberflöte with Atlanta’s Harrower Summer Opera, Ned Rorem’s Our Town with Georgia State University School of Music, Handel’s Messiah with the Atlanta Concert Opera, Le Nozze di Figaro with Red River Lyric Opera, Tosca with Permian Basin Opera, and other guest conducting engagements with the Georgia State University Symphony Orchestra, The Atlanta Ballet, Rome Symphony Orchestra, Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra, as well as collaborations with Opera Louisiane, Madison Opera, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Rolando has served as Associate Conductor and Chorusmaster for The Atlanta Opera, where he has studied and worked alongside his mentors Arthur Fagen and Walter Huff, in addition to a long and distinguished list of conductors and directors. He keeps an active coaching and collaborative piano schedule in Atlanta, preparing numerous singers for major engagements with orchestras and opera houses worldwide. Rolando is represented by Marvel Arts Management.