Carlo Rizzi

Carlo Rizzi Born 19 July 1960 Milan Italy Is An Italian Conductor.
Rizzi Studied Music At The Milan Conservatory. He Later Was A Conducting Student Of Vladimir Delman In Bologna And With Franco Ferrara In Siena. His Opera Conducting Debut Was In 1982 With Donizetti's L'ajo Nell'imbarazzo. In 1985 He Won The First Toscanini Conductor's Competition In Parma.
Rizzi Made His UK Conducting Debut At The 1988 Buxton Festival With Donizetti's Torquato Tasso And Subsequently Conducted Productions At The Royal Opera House Covent Garden And Opera North. In August 1992 He Became Music Director Of Welsh National Opera WNO And Served In The Post Through 2001. 1 He Learned To Speak Welsh During His Tenure. 2 In 2004 Following The Sudden Resignation Of Tugan Sokhiev Rizzi's Successor At WNO Rizzi Returned As WNO's Music Director Which Was Expected To Be Initially For A Period Of 2 Years. 3 He Remained In The Post Through 2007. 4 Rizzi's Recordings Include An English-Language Version Of Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová Chandos 5 And A DVD Set Of La Traviata Deutsche Grammophon . read less