Acting
Riccardo Chailly
EN, IT, DE, FR cinema · 58 credits
Born
20 February 1953 (age 73)
Birthplace
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
Filmography
A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk
Actor, Conductor
Concerto per Milano
as Chef d'orchestre
Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan
2024
Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan
as Self - conductor, Music Director, Conductor
Don Carlo
Sound Director
Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
Actor, Conductor
Macbeth
Conductor
Tosca
Conductor
Manon Lescaut
Conductor
![Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016) poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yif8tj60Frzd4BdxdHMbEPBMl5K.jpg)
Puccini: Turandot - Teatro alla Scala
as Self - Conductor, Director
Giovanna d'Arco
Conductor
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
Actor
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
as Director
La Bohème
Conductor
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
as Director
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
as Conductor
Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
as Conductor
Il Trittico
as Conductor
Puccini - Tosca
Conductor
Verdi: Aida
as Conductor, Music Director
Un Ballo in Maschera
as Self - Conductor, Conductor
Verdi: Don Carlo
Conductor
Conducting Mahler
as Self - Conductor
La Cenerentola
Conductor
Macbeth
as Conductor
Macbeth
Conductor
I Vespri Siciliani
as Conductor
Andrea Chénier - La Scala
Music Director
Verdi: Rigoletto
Music Director, Conductor