Marcello Rota has been a frequent guest with the world’s great opera companies, conducting performances at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, Teatro Comunale, Bologna, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Arena di Verona, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Staatsoper, Munich, Musik Halle, Hamburg, Royal Albert Hall, London, Palais Des Beaux Arts in Bruxelles, and the Elisabeth Halle in Antwerp.

He has been a regular guest of important orchestras including the Philharmonic Orchestras of Munich, Berlin and Mannheim, the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Torino, Orchestra “Arturo Toscanini”, Parma, the Swiss Italian Orchestra, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphonic Orchestra of Galicia, the Gran Canaria Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic of Buenos Aires, the San Diego Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the Adelaide Symphony, the Queensland Symphony, the Perth Symphony and the Auckland and New Zealand Symphonies. In 2004 he became the principal guest conductor of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra of Prague.