Riccardo Chailly

Known for ActingBorn 1953-02-20 (age 73)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025

Rossini: La Gazza Ladra - Teatro alla Scala

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)

Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co

Un Ballo in Maschera

Conducting Mahler

La Cenerentola

Macbeth

Andrea Chénier - La Scala

La Scala: The Force of Destiny

Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala

Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly

Verdi: Rigoletto

In Search of Beethoven

Giuseppe Verdi - La Forza del Destino

Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera

Giovanna d'Arco

Verdi: Aida

Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan

A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk

Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte

Concerto per Milano

Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024

Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna

Don Carlo

Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025

The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala

Macbeth

A riveder le stelle

Tosca

Manon Lescaut

Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc

Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony - Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Attila

Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)

Giordano: Andrea Chénier - Teatro alla Scala

I Am La Scala

Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos, Nikolaj Znaider

Turandot

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)

La Bohème

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)

Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co

Il Trittico

Puccini - Tosca

Schumann - Symphony No. 4 – Piano Concerto

Verdi: Don Carlo