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 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.
Personal Details
Movies (49)
A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk at the 2025 “Prima della Scala” in Milan, Italy
2025
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
as Self
2025
La forza del destino
2025
Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025
2025
Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino
Conductor (Sound)
2024
Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024
2024
Concerto per Milano
as Chef d'orchestre
2024
Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
as Self
2024
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 9 - Leipzig, Paris, Mailand, Wien
Conductor (Sound)
2024
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna
2024
Don Carlo
Sound Director (Sound)
2023
Macbeth - Teatro alla Scala
Conductor (Sound)
2021
Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
2021
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
Director (Directing)
2021
A riveder le stelle
as Conductor
2020
Tosca
Conductor (Sound)
2019
Verdi: Attila
Conductor (Sound)
2018
Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
as Conductor
2018
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony - Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
as Conductor
2018
Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala
Conductor (Sound)
2017
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Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
2017
Rossini: La Gazza Ladra - Teatro alla Scala
Conductor (Sound)
2017
Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
Director (Directing)
2016
I Am La Scala
as Self
2016
Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
2016
Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos, Nikolaj Znaider
2016
Giovanna d'Arco
Conductor (Sound)
2015
Turandot
as Conductor
2015
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2014
La Bohème
Conductor (Sound)
2013
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
as Director
2013
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
as Director
2012
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
as Conductor
2011
Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co
2011
Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
as Conductor
2011
In Search of Beethoven
as Self
2009
Il Trittico
as Conductor
2008
Puccini - Tosca
Conductor (Sound)
2007
Verdi: Aida
as Conductor
2006
Schumann - Symphony No. 4 – Piano Concerto
2006
Un Ballo in Maschera
as Self - Conductor
2005
Verdi: Don Carlo
Conductor (Sound)
2005
Gustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World
2004
Conducting Mahler
as Self - Conductor
2002
Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
as Self
1998
La Cenerentola
Conductor (Sound)
1988
Macbeth
Conductor (Sound)
1987
Verdi Macbeth Chailly
as Conductor
1987
I Vespri Siciliani
as Conductor
1986