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| | Rizzi Carlo | | direttore d'orchestra |   
| Carlo Rizzi was born in Milan and studied piano, composition and conducting at the Milan Conservatoire and subsequently conducting with Vladimir Delman and Franco Ferrara. He made his debut in 1982, conducting Donizetti's L'Ajo nell'imbarazzo at the Angelicum in Milan. In 1985 he won the first Toscanini Conductor's Competition in Parma, and conducted Verdi's Falstaff there as a result. He then made debuts in ltalian opera houses and gave concerts with ltalian orchestras, as well as in the Netherlands and Japan. |
| His British debut conducting Torquato Tasso at the Buxton Festival took place in 1988 and in 1989 he made his debut with the Australian Opera in Sydney. Other debuts followed with the Netherlands Opera, Geneva, Opera North, Welsh National Opera and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. In October 1991 he returned to Italy to re-open the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, with a new production of Il trovatore. |
| Since 1992 he has been appointed Musical Director of Welsh National Opera where he has conducted new productions of' Elektra, Tosca, La Favorita, Evgenij Onegin, Turandot, Nabucco, Cavalleria Rusticana, I pagliacci, Don Giovanni, Simon Boccanegra, Fidelio, Boris Godunov, and Peter Grimes, with revivals of Un ballo in maschera, La Bohème, La traviata, Le nozze di Figaro, The Rake's Progress, Carmen, Der Rosenkavalier, The Turn of the Screw and La Cenerentola. |
| He made further debuts at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Cologne Opera, the Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Theatre de la Monnaie, and the Paris Opera Bastille. |
| At the Royal Opera-House Covent Garden he has conducted a new production and six revivals, as well as the world première of Donizetti's Elisabetta for the at the Festival Hall, London and symphonic concerts in London and at the Windsor Festival. |
| He has conducted concerts with the most important international orchestras, such as the BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé, National Orchestra of Wales, lsrael Philharmonie, French National Radio, Danish Radio, Montreal Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Stockholm and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, Gothenburg Symphony, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| In recent seasons, he appeared on the podium of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (works by Rossini, Weber, Ciaikowskij), of the Orchestra Sinfonica Verdi di Milano (Glazunov, Chopin, Dvorak and Respighi), the Orchestra della Toscana (Haydn and Mendelssohn), of the Netherlands Philamonic Orchestra and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome Orchestra. |
| In 1998 he returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Madama Butterfly, to Rossini Opera Festival for La Cenerentola, to the Welsh National Opera to conduct Boris Godunov, to San Francisco Opera for Turandot and on the podium of the Opéra Bastille for Rigoletto. |
| In 1999 he conducted, among others, Lucia di Lammermoor and Il trovatore at the Metropolitan, a new production of Peter Grimes directed by Peter Stein, as well as Tristan und Isolde, Cavalleria rusticana and I pagliacci at the Welsh National Opera di Cardiff. |
| He has recently returned on the podium of the Rossini Opera Festival to lead with success La Cenerentola and to the Metropolitan Opera in New York for Il trovatore. In Summer 2001 he made his successful debut on the podium of the Teatro Regio di Parma in a new production of La Traviata. |
| Future plans include La pietra del paragone at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Don Carlo in 2002 in the New Cardiff Millenium Theatre, Madama Butterfly at the Teatro alla Scala, Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Rusalka at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. |
| Carlo Rizzi has recorded ten complete operas and various orchestral works and recital discs for companies such as |
| Teldec, Philips, EMI, Sony, Collins Classics, Bongiovanni and Hunt. His operatic recordings include works by Cimarosa, Donizetti, Paisiello, La traviata, Rigoletto, Faust, Un ballo in maschera, as well as Verdi's choruses with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and recitals discs with many artists. Among his orchestral recordings it's worth mentioning Bizet's L'Arlesienne and Respighi's Tone Poems, both with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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