Acting
Riccardo Chailly
1953-02-20 · Milan, Italy
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.
Known for
Verdi: Rigoletto
In Search of Beethoven
Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
La Scala: The Force of Destiny
Verdi: Aida
Conducting Mahler
Concerto per Milano 2026 - Hayato Sumino plays Gershwin
Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025
Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino
Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna
Rossini: La Gazza Ladra - Teatro alla Scala
Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
Giovanna d'Arco
Puccini: Turandot - Teatro alla Scala
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Riccardo Chailly & Lukas Sternath @ Lucerne Festival 2026 (complete version)
Riccardo Chailly & Frank Dupree @ Lucerne Festival 2026
Concerto per Milano 2026 - Hayato Sumino plays Gershwin
Lucia di Lammermoor
A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk
La Scala: The Force of Destiny
Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025
Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino
Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024
Concerto per Milano
Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna
Don Carlo
Macbeth
Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
A riveder le stelle
Tosca
Manon Lescaut
Verdi: Attila - Teatro alla Scala
Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco - Teatro alla Scala
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony - Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Don Pasquale - Teatro alla Scala
Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala
![Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yif8tj60Frzd4BdxdHMbEPBMl5K.jpg)
Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
Rossini: La Gazza Ladra - Teatro alla Scala
Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
I Am La Scala
Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos, Nikolaj Znaider
Giovanna d'Arco
Puccini: Turandot - Teatro alla Scala
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
La Bohème
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
Un ballo in maschera
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co
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