Fabrizo Ventura was the general musical director for the Theater und Sinfonieorchester Münster for ten years and has been the conductor at the Istanbul State Opera for almost fifteen years. He has conducted opera productions at such companies as Volksoper Vienna, the Prague State Opera, Opera di Roma, Teatro Verdi Trieste, Teatro Carlo Felice, the Arena di Verona, Opéra de Nice, the Australian Opera, the Royal Opera House – Covent Garden, and the Royal Opera Houses of Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Oslo.