Silvina Peruglia is an Argentine-Spanish conductor who has been based in Europe since 2017. She holds a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Haute École de Musique de Genève.
The 2025–26 season marks several important debuts as guest conductor with internationally renowned orchestras, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, and the Orquesta de Extremadura, among other engagements.
During the 2024–25 season she serves as Assistant Conductor at the Opéra National de Lorraine, where she conducts multiple symphonic projects and collaborates closely on five operatic productions. The season also includes a return as guest conductor to the Orchestre National d’Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, as well as a return to the Opéra de Lyon as assistant conductor for a production of Così fan tutte.
Since her operatic debut in 2012, she has conducted productions of Die Fledermaus, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, Luisa Fernanda, Don Giovanni, and L’elisir d’amore in Buenos Aires. In the 2023–24 season she made her debut at the Opéra Nouvel de Fribourg and the Opéra de Lausanne with Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, a co-production of NOF and the HEMU.
She has collaborated with renowned ensembles including the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, the Orchestre National d’Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lorraine, the Ensemble Contrechamps, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Argentina, among others.
Peruglia has been invited to several prestigious programs for young conductors, including the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors, the Gstaad Conducting Academy, and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. In 2024 she was selected to participate in the La Maestra International Competition for Women Conductors at the Philharmonie de Paris.
As a mentee of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, she receives guidance from Marin Alsop and other leading conductors. In 2022 she also worked under the mentorship of Peter Eötvös as part of the masterclasses organized by the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation.
She has collaborated as assistant conductor with conductors such as Georg Fritzsch, Antonio Pappano, and Roberto Fores Veses, taking part in productions with institutions including the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Opéra de Lyon, and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, among others. She has also worked with contemporary composers such as Martin Matalon and Philippe Leroux.
Her work has been supported by numerous scholarships and grants, including the Excellence Scholarship of the Haute École de Musique de Genève – Fondation Wilsdorf, as well as support from the Fondation Engelberts, the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation, the OSSESP Foundation, and the Mozarteum Argentino.
Born in Buenos Aires, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Argentina. Both her undergraduate projects, focused on the Mozart–Da Ponte operas, and her master’s degree project received the highest distinctions. Her undergraduate thesis was published in the musicological journal of the UNA.