Riccardo Chailly
Known for Acting · 35 credits
- Born
- 1953-02-20 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Milan, Italy
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 â in addition to his performances at La Scala â 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 GrandâUfficiale 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 lâOrdre des Arts et des Lettres since 2011.
Known For
TV Shows (2)
Movies (33)
Verdi Macbeth Chailly
1987
as Conductor
La Scala: The Force of Destiny
2025
as Self
In Search of Beethoven
2009
as Self
I Am La Scala
2016
as Self
Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
2024
as Self
Verdi: Aida
2006
as Conductor
Un Ballo in Maschera
2005
as Self - Conductor
Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
1998
as Self
I Vespri Siciliani
1986
as Conductor
Conducting Mahler
2002
as Self - Conductor
Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
2018
as Conductor
Turandot
2015
as Conductor
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2014
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Nightâs Dream, Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony - Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
2018
as Conductor
ElÄ«na GaranÄa @ Lucerne Festival 2025
2021
A riveder le stelle
2020
as Conductor
Schumann - Symphony No. 4 â Piano Concerto
2006
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
2011
as Conductor
Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
2016
Il Trittico
2008
as Conductor
Concerto per Milano
2024
as Chef d'orchestre
Gustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World
2004
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4 (Ricardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
Berliner Philharmoniker - WaldbĂŒhne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co
2011
Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan
2026
as Self - conductor
Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025
2025
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2013
as Director
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
2012
as Director
Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024
2024
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Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
2017
WaldbĂŒhne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
2011
as Conductor
A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk
2025
Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos, Nikolaj Znaider
2016
About 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 beca⊠With 35 credits spanning from 1986 to 2026, Riccardo Chailly has appeared in 33 films and 2 TV shows.
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- Verdi Macbeth Chailly (1987) â as Conductor
- La Scala: The Force of Destiny (2025) â as Self
- In Search of Beethoven (2009) â as Self
- I Am La Scala (2016) â as Self
- Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte (2024) â as Self
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