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 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, Z…

Movies & TV Shows

1. In Search of Beethoven (2009) — Self
2. Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera (1998) — Self
3. Conducting Mahler (2002) — Self - Conductor
4. Verdi: Aida (2006) — Conductor
5. Un Ballo in Maschera (2005) — Self - Conductor
6. Violin Concertos Beethoven - Mendelssohn . Nikolaj Znaider - Riccardo Chailly (2016)
7. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (Riccardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra) (2011) — Conductor
8. Waldbühne 2011: Fellini, Jazz & Co (2011) — Conductor
9. Beatrice Rana @ Lucerne Festival 2025 (2025)
10. La Scala: The Force of Destiny (2025) — Self
11. Berliner Philharmoniker - Waldbühne 2011 - Fellini Jazz e Co (2011)
12. Gustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World (2004)
13. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly) (2013) — Director
14. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly) (2012) — Director
15. Riccardo Chailly - Mahler [Symphony No. 8] (Lucerne Festival 2016) (2017)
16. Die Macht der Musik - 200 Jahre Beethovens Neunte (2024) — Self
17. Verdi Macbeth Chailly (1987) — Conductor
18. I Am La Scala (2016) — Self
19. Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc (2018) — Conductor
20. Turandot (2015) — Conductor
21. I Vespri Siciliani (1986) — Conductor
22. A riveder le stelle (2020) — Conductor
23. Schumann - Symphony No. 4 – Piano Concerto (2006)
24. Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 (Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly) (2014)
25. Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos, Nikolaj Znaider (2016)
26. Concerto per Milano (2024) — Chef d'orchestre
27. Riccardo Chailly & Alexander Malofeev Lucerne Festival 2024 (2024)
28. Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony - Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (2018) — Conductor
29. Il Trittico (2008) — Conductor
30. Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4 (Ricardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra)
31. A Lady Macbeth of the District of Mcensk (2025)
32. Elīna Garanča @ Lucerne Festival 2025 (2021)
33. Riccardo Chailly dirige la 9e de Beethoven - Scala de Milan (2026) — Self - conductor
34. Lebensläufe (1998) — Self
35. Sternstunde Kunst (1998) — Self

Directed

1. Madama Butterfly - Teatro alla Scala (2016) — Director
2. The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala (2021) — Director