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.
Known For | Sound |
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Most Rating | 4.264 |
Birthday | 1953-02-20 |
Place of Birth | Milan, Italy |
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2011
Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co
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Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co
2021
Anna Netrebko - Amata dalla tenebre
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Anna Netrebko - Amata dalla tenebre
2004
Gustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World
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A documentary based on Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony. Riccardo Chailly is conducting and analyzing the four movements of the symphony.
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Gustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World
2013
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
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As Riccardo Chailly points out, "The Fifth begins with a dark, gloomy, and tragic tone, but then is enlivened in the Scherzo and Adagietto, and eventu...
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2012
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
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The audience knows that the performance of a Mahler symphony is not only a musical experience but is also emotionally effective' (Chailly). This count...
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
1998
Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
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Attrazione d'Amore is a touching illustration of the unique relation that has developed between the Conductor Riccardo Chailly and his famous Royal Co...
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Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
2017
Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
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Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
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Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
2005
Un Ballo in Maschera
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Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.
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Un Ballo in Maschera
2024
Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
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Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
2016
Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
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Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
2011
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
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The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and their Music Director Riccardo Chailly have already acquired legendary status – glorious reviews and many awards f...
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
2009
In Search of Beethoven
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In Search of Beethoven offers a comprehensive documentary about the life and works of the great composer. Over 65 performances by the world's finest m...
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In Search of Beethoven
2002
Conducting Mahler
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Documents the interpretations of Gustav Mahler's compositions by conductors Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, and Simo...
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Conducting Mahler
1987
Verdi Macbeth Chailly
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Claude D'Anna's film of Verdi's Macbeth is a gloomy affair, stressing the descent into madness of the principal villains. It's acted by the singers of...
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Verdi Macbeth Chailly
2016
I Am La Scala
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The 200-year-old story of Milan’s illustrious opera house, La Scala, home to the great tenor Placido Domingo, conductor Arturo Toscanini and acclaimed...
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I Am La Scala
2018
Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
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"Giovanna d'Arco; ossia, la pulzella d'Orléans" is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto b...
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Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
2006
Verdi: Aida
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Early recordings of Franco Zeffirelli's 2006 production of Verdi's opera which saw Roberto Alagna's high-profile exit during the second performance. E...
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Verdi: Aida
2015
Turandot
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Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downright exciting! and I found the singing, acting, and...
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Turandot
1982
Verdi: Rigoletto
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Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating th...
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Verdi: Rigoletto
1986
I Vespri Siciliani
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I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact that it has 5 acts, therefore they conclude that i...
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I Vespri Siciliani
2011
Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
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The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, is the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s summe...
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Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
2020
A riveder le stelle
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A riveder le stelle
2006
Schumann - Symphony No. 4 – Piano Concerto
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Riccardo Chailly conducts the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and pianist Martha Argerich in this 2006 celebration of the work of Robert Schumann (1810-18...
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Schumann - Symphony No. 4 – Piano Concerto
2014
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
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A passionate conductor and composer, Gustav Mahler never received the recognition he deserved during his lifetime but has since come to be known as a...
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos, Nikolaj Znaider
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Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 64
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 61 N...
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