Riccardo Frizza |

Riccardo frizza

Riccardo Frizza was educated at the Milan Conservatory and the Chiggiana Academy in Siena. He began his career at the Brescia Symphony Orchestra, where he mastered a large symphonic repertoire over the course of six years. In 1998, the young musician became a laureate of the International Conducting Competition in the Czech Republic.

Today Riccardo Frizza is one of the leading opera conductors in the world. He performs on the stages of the largest opera houses and concert halls – Rome, Bologna, Turin, Genoa, Marseille, Lyon, Brussels (“La Monnaie”) and Lisbon (“San Carlos”), stands at the orchestra at the Washington National Opera, New – York Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera House, in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, appears at such concert venues as Royal Festival Hall in London, Hercules in Munich, Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City. He is a participant of the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, the Verdi Festival in Parma, the festivals of Radio France in Montpellier and the Florentine Musical May, festivals in A Coruña, Martin Franc, Spoleto, Wexford, Aix-en-Provence, Saint-Denis, Osaka.

The conductor’s recent performances include performances of Verdi’s operas Falstaff, Il trovatore and Don Carlos in Seattle, Venice and Bilbao; The Barber of Seville, Cinderella and The Silk Staircase by Rossini at the Semperoper in Dresden, the Bastille Opera in Paris and the Zurich Opera; Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Lucrezia Borgia, Anna Boleyn and Love Potion in Florence, San Francisco and Dresden; Gluck’s “Armida” at the Met; “So do everyone” Mozart in Macerata; “Manon Lescaut” Puccini in Verona; “The Tales of Hoffmann” by Offenbach Theater an der Vienna; “Capulets and Montagues” Bellini in San Francisco.

The maestro collaborates with well-known world orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, the Belgian National, the orchestras of the Bavarian Opera, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Dresden State Capella, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Montpellier National Orchestra, the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra named after George Enescu, the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra named after Witold Lutoslawsky, Romanian Radio Orchestra, Tokyo and Kyoto Symphony Orchestras, Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Prague Soloists Ensemble, Orchestral Ensemble of Paris and, of course, the leading Italian orchestras – the Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra of Milan, the Arturo Toscanini Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestras of the Santa Cecilia Academy and the Florentine Musical May Festival.

The conductor’s discography includes the operas Mirandolina by Martinu, Rossini’s Matilda di Chabran and Tancred, Donizetti’s Daughter of the Regiment, Verdi’s Nabucco (at the Supraphone, Decca и Dynamic). The recording of a solo concert by singer Juan Diego Flores, accompanied by the Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan under the direction of Riccardo Frizza, received the Cannes Classical Award 2004.

The maestro’s immediate plans include Verdi’s Oberto, Count di San Bonifacio at La Scala, Verdi’s Attila at Theater an der Vienna, Rossini’s Cinderella and Bellini’s Capulets in Munich, Verdi’s Otello in Frankfurt, Bellini’s Norma at the New York Metropolitan Opera, Puccini’s La bohème in Dallas, Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Arena Theater di Verona” and in Seattle, Rossini’s “Italian in Algiers” at the Bastille Opera in Paris.