Vittorio Gui was an Italian conductor, composer and opera administrator, one of the important Italian conductors of the twentieth century. He was closely associated with Glyndebourne and Italian repertory.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Rossini, Mozart and Haydn, including Il barbiere di Siviglia with Victoria de los Ángeles and Luigi Alva.

Gui’s conducting combined elegance, theatrical balance and a lightness of touch especially valuable in Rossini and Classical repertory.

His page is essential for the Italian conducting strand. Gui gives the opera shelf wit, poise and a conductor’s clean dramatic clockwork.