in Central Park "Opera Italiana is in the Air" to promote the knowledge and appreciation of Italian Opera through a lyrical/symphonic concert offered to all NewYorkers for free. In 2017 he conducts Giacomo Puccini's Turandot at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova. In 2017 he conducts I Solisti Aquilani with John Malkovich and Anastasia Terenkova at the Emilia Romagna Festival, which marks the debut of the famous actor in the Italian theaters. The tournée then continued at the Ljubljana Festival, Mittelfest in Cividale del Friuli and Lisinski Hall in Zagabria. Concerto di Bach in La Minore, Solista Lana Trotovšek, D. Shostakovich/Rudolf Baršaj: Chamber Symphony op. 110a, and "Report on the Blind", Alfred Schnittke "Concerto for Piano and Strings", text by Ernesto Sabato (from the Novel "On Heroes and Thombs"). In 2018 he conducts a symphonic concert dedicated to the Day of Remembrance with the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino at Palazzo Pitti in Firenze. Adagio and Fuga of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony n. 49 by Franz Joseph Haydn, Adagio for Strings of Samuel Barber, D. Shostakovich/Rudolf Baršaj: Chamber Symphony op. 110a. In 2018 he conducts Giacomo Puccini's La Rondine at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Rossini's Il Signor Bruschino at the Teatro La Fenice In 2018 he continues his collaboration with John Malkovich and Anastasia Terenkova inaugurating the Baltic Music Seasons Festival in Jurmala (Latvia) with the Obuda Symphony Orchestra and in Bratislava with I Solisti Aquilani. In 2018 he conducts Madama Butterfly at the Arena del Mare in Genova with Orchestra and Choir of Teatro La Fenice Opera italiana is in the Air As of 2017 he is President and Music Director of Central Park Summer Concerts, an organization that produces an annual event called "Opera Italiana is in the Air" at Central Park, New York and other cities in the US, to promote Italian opera especially among the young generation. "Opera Italiana is in the Air" has the goal of bringing Italian Opera back to its former standing of POP Music; in other words, music that belongs to everybody and take it away from the false perception that Opera is music that belgons to the élite class only. On July 6, 2017 Alvise Casellati conducted an orchestra composed of 56 musicians and a cast of four soloists in a selection of arias and symphonic pieces by Rossini, Verdi and Puccini. On July 2, 2018 he conducted an