Riccardo Chailly
Biography
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 Orchest...
Known For
Top 33 Movies
Turandot
2015
Conducting Mahler
2002
I Am La Scala
2016
Verdi: Aida
2006
Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
1998
Verdi Macbeth Chailly
1987
Il Trittico
2008
Gustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World
2004
I Vespri Siciliani
1986
Un Ballo in Maschera
2005
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony - Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
2018
La Scala: The Force of Destiny
2025
Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024
2024
A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk
2025
Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025
2025
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna
2024
In Search of Beethoven
2009
Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
2011
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
2011
Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
2018
Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos, Nikolaj Znaider
2016
Concerto per Milano
2024
Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co
2011
Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
2017
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2012
Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
2016
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2013
Schumann - Symphony No. 4 – Piano Concerto
2006
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2014
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4 (Ricardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
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Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
2021