Resident at the Parco della Musica, the orchestra primarily performs its Rome concerts in the Sala Santa Cecilia.
From 1908 to today, the Orchestra has given over 15,000 concerts collaborating with the greatest musicians or directors of the century: it has been conducted, among others, by Mahler,[1] Debussy,[2] Strauss, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Hindemith, Toscanini, Klemplerer[3] Celibidache,[4] Furtwängler,[5] De Sabata, Stokowski,[6] Solti, Bernstein,[7] Karajan, Kleiber,[8] Abbado and Morricone.
Subsequent music directors included Franco Ferrara (1944–1945), Fernando Previtali (1953–1973), and Igor Markevitch (1973–1975).
The orchestra was noted for its recordings of Italian opera for the Decca label with such singers such as Renata Tebaldi and Carlo Bergonzi under Tullio Serafin.
[12][13] He is scheduled to conclude his tenure as music director of the orchestra in 2023 and subsequently to take the title of conductor emeritus.