Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly, who was born in 1953 in Milan, studied at the Conservatories of Perugia, Rome, and Milan and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, beginning his career as an assistant to Claudio Abbado at La Scala in Milan. Chailly was appointed Music Director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1980, and in 1988 he moved to the same position with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, which he helmed for sixteen years. From 2005 to 2016, Riccardo Chailly served as head of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; starting in 2015, he became Music Director of La Scala in Milan, and since the summer of 2016 he has held the position of Music Director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Chailly regularly conducts such leading European orchestras as the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris. In the United States, he has worked with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As an opera conductor – in addition to his performances at La Scala – he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, Zurich Opera, the Bavarian and Vienna Staatsoper companies, Chicago Lyric Opera, and San Francisco Opera. Riccardo Chailly has received many prizes for his more than 150 CDs, including two Echo Klassik Awards (in 2012 and 2015); Gramophone magazine chose his account of the Brahms symphonies as Recording of the Year in 2014. Riccardo Chailly is a Grand’Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, Cavaliere di Gran Croce, and a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In 1996 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and in France he has been an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres since 2011.
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SoundBirthday
February 20, 1953Gender
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43Place of birth
Milan, ItalyCast credits
Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co
Anna Netrebko - Amata dalla tenebre
Maestro d'orchestraGustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
DirectorGustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
DirectorRiccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
Un Ballo in Maschera
Self - ConductorViolin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
ConductorIn Search of Beethoven
SelfConducting Mahler
Self - ConductorVerdi Macbeth Chailly
ConductorTeatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
ConductorI Am La Scala
SelfVerdi: Aida
ConductorTurandot
ConductorVerdi: Rigoletto
ConductorI Vespri Siciliani
ConductorWaldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
ConductorCrew credits
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
DirectorLa Bohème
ConductorGiordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala
ConductorRossini: La Gazza Ladra - Teatro alla Scala
ConductorDon Carlo
Sound DirectorVerdi: Aida
Music DirectorAndrea Chénier - La Scala
Music DirectorVerdi: Rigoletto
Music DirectorMadama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
DirectorMacbeth - Teatro alla Scala
ConductorMacbeth
ConductorUn Ballo in Maschera
ConductorGiovanna d'Arco
ConductorLa Cenerentola
ConductorVerdi: Attila
ConductorPuccini - Tosca
ConductorTosca
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