The Rigoletto opera by J. Verdi will be held at the Bashkir Opera and Ballet Theater on March 5. The Italian conductor Giovan Battista Dast will conduct the performance in Ufa. 

Giovan Battista Dasta is the chief conductor of the Italian symphony orchestra Ars Antiqua and the orchestra Arturo Toscanini (Palermo). The maestro studied conducting and choral art, composition in prestigious educational academies of Italy, as well as in Russia (St. Petersburg).

Giovan Battista Dasta successfully performed with numerous European orchestras in different cities of Italy — Palermo, Naples, Catania, Syracuse, Sorrento, Trieste. Fruitfully collaborates with world-famous Italian theaters and symphony orchestras, including the Teatro Massimo (Palermo), Sicilian Symphony Orchestra. Since 2001 he is the main guest conductor of the Sofia Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the Moldavian Television and Radio. For many years, he has been conducting the largest European music collectives: the Romanian Symphony Orchestra Jona Dumitrescu, the Italian Symphony Orchestra Camerata di Valcea, the National Radio Romanian Orchestra.

Since 1997, he is being the founder, general manager and music director of the Ars Antiqua Academy of Music. The maestro’s creative repertoire is rich and extensive, including the compositions by A. Vivaldi, J. Verdi, F. Schubert, S. Prokofiev, I. Stravinsky, S. Slonimsky.