Carlo Rizzi

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Carlo Rizzi (2013)

Carlo Rizzi (born July 19, 1960 in Milan ) is an Italian conductor . He specializes in particular in the classics of Italian opera, but also conducts a broader repertoire.

Life

Carlo Rizzi studied piano, composition and conducting at the Milan Conservatory . He then worked as a répétiteur at La Scala in Milan and made his debut at the Angelicum in Milan in 1982 as a conductor with the opera L'ajo nell'imbarazzo by Gaetano Donizetti . In 1983 he studied with the Russian conductor Vladimir Delman and in 1984 with Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana . In 1985 he won the Concorso Toscanini in Parma and was the winner of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff .

During the 1980s he conducted primarily in Italy, but also made his debut in the Netherlands and Japan. In 1988 he conducted for the first time in Great Britain as part of a performance at the Buxton Festival, and the following year at the Sydney Opera House , where he appeared again in the following two years. In the same year he made his debut at the Dutch National Opera . In Great Britain he also conducted the Opera North in Leeds , at the Welsh National Opera and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

In 1991 he conducted Verdi's Il trovatore at the reopening of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa , which had been closed since its destruction in World War II . In 1992 he was appointed director of the Welsh National Opera to succeed Charles Mackerras , a position he held until 2001 and from 2004 to 2007. In this role he conducted both the dramatic and symphonic repertoire and performed with the local orchestra for the first time at the London Proms . In 2015 it made him its honorary conductor.

In Germany he conducted for the first time at the Deutsche Oper Berlin . He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1993 with La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini . Since then he has performed there regularly. Other larger opera houses where Rizzi has conducted include the La Scala in Milan, the Brussels Opera House , the Zurich Opera House and the Opéra Bastille . Symphony orchestras that he has conducted for performances include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the London Symphony Orchestra , the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchester National de France .

In 2005, Rizzi conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in Willy Decker's new production of La traviata at the Salzburg Festival (replacing the previously deceased Marcello Viotti ) . The role of Violetta was sung by Anna Netrebko , the tenor role of Alfredo Germont was played by Rolando Villazón . The seven scheduled performances are said to have been overbooked several times and tickets are said to have been traded at prices of over 2000 euros. While Netrebko and Villazón received positive reviews (both of the performance and the recording), Rizzi's conducting was sometimes criticized.

In 2016 Rizzi conducted the Welsh National Opera company for the world premiere of Iain Bell's opera In Parenthesis at the Wales Millennium Center in Cardiff.

Discography (selection)

The following opera recordings with Carlo Rizzi have been released:

• Domenico Cimarosa : L'italiana in Londra. Maria Angeles Peters, Maurizio Comencini, Bruno Praticò, Orchestra Sinfonica di Piacenza; Bongiovanni.
• Gaetano Donizetti: Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo . Stefano Antonucci, Luciana Serra , Luca Caonici, Maurizio Picconi, Elisabeta Tandura, Coro Francesco Cilea di Reggio, Orchestra Sinfonica della Piacenza, CD Bongiovanni, DVD House of Opera, 1987.
• Gioachino Rossini : Ciro in Babilonia . Ernesto Palacio , Caterina Calvi, Daniela Dessì , Oriana Ferraris, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo; Hunt, 1988.
• Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata . Neil Shicoff , Edita Gruberová , Giorgio Zancanaro, London Symphony Orchestra ; Teldec, 1992.
• Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto , Alexandru Agache, Jennifer Larmore , Leontina Văduva , Richard Leech, Samuel Ramey , Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera; Teldec, 1992.
• Charles Gounod : Faust . Jerry Hadley , Samuel Ramey, Cecilia Gasdia ; Warner Classics, 1993.
• Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera . Michèle Crider , Richard Leech, Vladimir Chernov, María Bayo , Welsh National Opera Chorus, Welsh National Opera Orchestra; Teldec, 1996.
• Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata . (Salzburg 2005): Anna Netrebko, Rolando, Villazón, Vienna Philharmonic; Directed by Willy Decker ; Deutsche Grammophon, CD and DVD, 2005.
• Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola . Alessandro Corbelli , Gino Quilico, Raúl Giménez , Laura Polverelli, Jennifer Larmore, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus; Teldec, 1995.
• Leoš Janáček : Káťa Kabanová . Cheryl Barker , Jane Henschel , Robert Brubaker , Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera; Chandos, 2007.

Web links

Commons : Carlo Rizzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Carlo Rizzi

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Robert Cummings: Artist Biography. In: Allmusic . Retrieved August 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Carlo Rizzi. In: Svensk Konsertdirektion AB. Memento in the Internet Archive , August 19, 2009, accessed August 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ La Bohème {989} Metropolitan Opera House: 10/29/1993. In: Archive page of the Metropolitan Opera. Retrieved August 14, 2018 . 
4. ↑ On the person. In: Deutsche Oper Berlin. Retrieved August 14, 2018 . 
5. ↑ George Loomis: 'Traviata' soars at Salzburg. In: New York Times . August 24, 2005. Retrieved August 14, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Eleonore Büning : The beautiful death. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 9, 2005, accessed August 14, 2018 . 
7. ^ Robert Levine: Verdi: Traviata / Netrebko / Villazon DVD. In: classicstoday.com. June 28, 2006, accessed August 14, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Steph Power: Opera review: Ian Bell's 'In Parenthesis', Wales Millennium Center, Cardiff: 'a powerful act of remembrance'. In: The Independent . May 15, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .