For Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, who studied in Milan and debuted in the early ‘90s with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, staying close to home has proven a good approach, as his celebrated oeuvre is full of explosive operas and passionate symphonies from the European masters. His brisk and lyrical Verdi grasps something powerful from the Romantic period; his Puccini opera numbers, like La Bohème’s “Quando Me'n Vo'”, are amorous and intoxicating. Noseda’s conjuring of Mozart’s excited vocal lines and alluring theatricality in Don Giovanni’s “Madamina, il catalogo è questo” is nothing short of masterful.