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Riccardo Chailly
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 assis…
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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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2026
Lucia di Lammermoor
Movie Conductor
- 2025
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2025
La Scala: The Force of Destiny
Movie Self
- 2025
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2024
Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino
Movie Conductor
- 2024
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2024
Concerto per Milano
Movie Chef d'orchestre
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2024
Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan
Movie Self - conductor
- 2024
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2024
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna
Movie Conductor
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2023
Don Carlo
Movie Sound Director
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2021
Macbeth
Movie Conductor
- 2021
- 2021
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2020
A riveder le stelle
Movie Conductor
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2019
Tosca
Movie Conductor
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2019
Manon Lescaut
Movie Conductor
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2018
Attila
Movie Conductor
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2018
Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
Movie Conductor
- 2018
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2017
Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala
Movie Conductor
- 2017
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2017
Rossini: La Gazza Ladra - Teatro alla Scala
Movie Conductor
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2016
Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
Movie Director
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2016
I Am La Scala
Movie Self
- 2016
- 2016
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2015
Giovanna d'Arco
Movie Conductor
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2015
Turandot - Teatro alla Scala
Movie Self - Conductor
- 2014
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2013
La Bohème
Movie Conductor
- 2013
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2013
Un ballo in maschera
Movie Conductor
- 2012
- 2011
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2011
Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
Movie Conductor
- 2011
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2009
In Search of Beethoven
Movie Self
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2008
Il Trittico
Movie Conductor
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2007
Puccini - Tosca
Movie Conductor
