After earlier studies in composition, choral music and singing, Marco Longhini graduated as a conductor at the Milan Conservatory, as well as obtaining a degree in Architecture, with a thesis on the relationship between architecture and music performance. He has concentrated his attention in particular on early music and on the rediscovery of often unpublished Italian masterpieces of the past. In addition to his work with Delitiae Musicae, which he founded for the study of the repertoire of the sixteen and seventeenth centuries, he has a busy and demanding career as a much sought-after conductor of Baroque Opera. Twenty years of activity in this repertoire, with performances throughout Europe, has given him a profound knowledge of vocal music in opera and oratorio. In addition to his work with Delitiæ Musicæ he has a demanding career as a conductor of opera and oratorio. Marco Longhini has an extensive discography of some 25 recordings, including Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo (awarded the French Choc du disque in 1998 and 9 de Répertoire), Adriano Banchieri’s Madrigals Pazzia senile e Saviezza giovenile chosen by the magazine CD Classica as the best recording of April 1999; further recordings include Monteverdi’s Messa e Litanie della Beata Vergine, Cavalieri’s Cantata and Mass Sciolto havean dall’alte sponde (awarded five stars by the Italian magazine Musica), and many others. He now teaches at the Conservatory of