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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk at the 2025 “Prima della Scala” in Milan, Italy
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Release Date:07/12/2025
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Character:Self
Release Date:02/11/2025
La forza del destino
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Release Date:16/10/2025
Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025
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Release Date:01/01/2025
Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024
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Release Date:24/09/2024
Concerto per Milano
Character:Chef d'orchestre
Release Date:09/06/2024
Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte
Character:Self
Release Date:07/05/2024
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 - Leipzig | Paris | Milan | Vienna
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Release Date:26/04/2024
Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025
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Release Date:15/08/2021
A riveder le stelle
Character:Conductor
Release Date:07/12/2020
Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc
Character:Conductor
Release Date:15/06/2018
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony - Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Character:Conductor
Release Date:01/06/2018
![Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/yif8tj60Frzd4BdxdHMbEPBMl5K.jpg)
Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016)
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Release Date:19/05/2017
I Am La Scala
Character:Self
Release Date:21/09/2016
Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly
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Release Date:16/02/2016
Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos, Nikolaj Znaider
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Release Date:15/02/2016
Turandot
Character:Conductor
Release Date:01/05/2015
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
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Release Date:29/09/2014
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
Character:Director
Release Date:21/02/2013
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly)
Character:Director
Release Date:06/09/2012
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
Character:Conductor
Release Date:27/09/2011
Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co
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Release Date:02/07/2011
Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co
Character:Conductor
Release Date:02/07/2011
In Search of Beethoven
Character:Self
Release Date:17/04/2009
Il Trittico
Character:Conductor
Release Date:01/01/2008
Verdi: Aida
Character:Conductor
Release Date:14/12/2006
Schumann - Symphony No. 4 – Piano Concerto
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Release Date:01/06/2006
Un Ballo in Maschera
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:26/11/2005
Gustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World
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Release Date:01/01/2004
Conducting Mahler
Character:Self - Conductor
Release Date:06/06/2002
Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera
Character:Self
Release Date:01/11/1998
Verdi Macbeth Chailly
Character:Conductor
Release Date:01/01/1987
I Vespri Siciliani
Character:Conductor
Release Date:17/07/1986
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