Riccardo Chailly

Personal Info

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Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-02-20 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Milan, Italy

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 Musi...

Acting

2005

Un Ballo in Maschera

as Self - Conductor

2002

Conducting Mahler

as Self - Conductor

1987

2016

2006

Verdi: Aida

as Conductor

2015

Turandot

as Conductor

1986

I Vespri Siciliani

as Conductor

2020

2024

Concerto per Milano

as Chef d'orchestre

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