Riccardo Chailly
Acting
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
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Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan
2026
Self - conductor
movieConcerto per Milano
2024
Chef d'orchestre
![Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yif8tj60Frzd4BdxdHMbEPBMl5K.jpg)
movieTurandot
2015
Conductor
movieIl Trittico
2008
Conductor
movieVerdi: Aida
2006
Conductor
movieUn Ballo in Maschera
2005
Self - Conductor
movieConducting Mahler
2002
Self - Conductor
movieVerdi Macbeth Chailly
1987
Conductor
movieI Vespri Siciliani
1986
Conductor
Sound23
Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan
2026
Music Director, Conductor
movieDon Carlo
2023
Sound Director
movieMacbeth
2021
Conductor
movieTosca
2019
Conductor
movieManon Lescaut
2019
Conductor
movieAttila
2018
Conductor
movieGiovanna d'Arco
2015
Conductor
movieLa Bohème
2013
Conductor
moviePuccini - Tosca
2007
Conductor
movieVerdi: Aida
2006
Music Director
movieUn Ballo in Maschera
2005
Conductor
movieVerdi: Don Carlo
2005
Conductor
movieLa Cenerentola
1988
Conductor
movieMacbeth
1987
Conductor
movieAndrea Chénier - La Scala
1985
Music Director
movieVerdi: Rigoletto
1982
Music Director, Conductor
