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.
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Films (58)
Riccardo Chailly & Lukas Sternath @ Lucerne Festival 2026 (complete version)
2026
Riccardo Chailly & Frank Dupree @ Lucerne Festival 2026
2026
Concerto per Milano 2026 - Hayato Sumino plays Gershwin
2026
Lucia di Lammermoor
2026 · Conductor
A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk
2025 · Conductor
La Scala: The Force of Destiny
2025 · Self
Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025
2025
Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino
2024 · Conductor
Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024
2024 · Conductor
Concerto per Milano
2024 · Chef d'orchestre
Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
2024 · Self
Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan
2024 · Self - conductor, Music Director, Conductor
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna
2024 · Conductor
Don Carlo
2023 · Sound Director
Macbeth
2021 · Conductor
Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
2021 · Conductor
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
2021 · Director
A riveder le stelle
2020 · Conductor
Tosca
2019 · Conductor
Manon Lescaut
2019 · Conductor
Verdi: Attila - Teatro alla Scala
2018 · Conductor
Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco - Teatro alla Scala
2018 · Director
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony - Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
2018 · Conductor
Donizetti: Don Pasquale - Teatro alla Scala
2018 · Director
Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala
2017 · Conductor
![Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yif8tj60Frzd4BdxdHMbEPBMl5K.jpg)
Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
2017
Rossini: La Gazza Ladra - Teatro alla Scala
2017 · Conductor
Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala
2016 · Director
I Am La Scala
2016 · Self
Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
2016
Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos, Nikolaj Znaider
2016
Giovanna d'Arco
2015 · Conductor
Puccini: Turandot - Teatro alla Scala
2015 · Self - Conductor, Director
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2014
La Bohème
2013 · Conductor
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2013 · Director
Un ballo in maschera
2013 · Conductor
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2012 · Director
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
2011 · Conductor
Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co
2011
Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
2011 · Conductor
In Search of Beethoven
2009 · Self
Il Trittico
2008 · Conductor
Puccini - Tosca
2007 · Conductor
Verdi: Aida
2006 · Conductor, Music Director
Schumann - Symphony No. 4 – Piano Concerto
2006
Un Ballo in Maschera
2005 · Self - Conductor, Conductor
Verdi: Don Carlo
2005 · Conductor
Gustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World
2004
Conducting Mahler
2002 · Self - Conductor
Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
1998 · Self
La Cenerentola
1988 · Conductor
Macbeth
1987 · Conductor
Macbeth
1987 · Conductor
I Vespri Siciliani
1986 · Conductor
Andrea Chénier - La Scala
1985 · Music Director
Verdi: Rigoletto
1982 · Music Director, Conductor
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4 (Ricardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)