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RICCARDO FRIZZA
Conductor
Riccardo Frizza studied at the Milan Conservatory of Music and at the Chigiana Academy in Siena.
In 1998 he won the International Competition of the South Bohemia State-Philharmonic
Conductors (Czech Republic). From 1994 to 2000, he served as Music Director to the Symphonic
Orchestra of Brescia, performing the Beethoven Symphonies and other symphonic repertory.
He has appeared at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, at the Due Mondi Festival in Spoleto, at
the Martina Franca Festival, at the Festival Verdi in Parma, Opera di Roma, Teatro Comunale di
Bologna, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Teatro del maggio musicale
Fiorentino. Abroad he has led some of the world's most important orchestras at the most
important festivals as the Festival de Radio France and Montpellier, at the Wexford Festival, at the
Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Saint-Denis Festival, at the Palacio de la Opera in La Coruna, the
Philharmonic of St. Petersburg, at the Royal Festival Hall of London, at the Opera in Marseille, La
Monnaie of Bruxelles, at the Opera of Lyon, at the Hercules Sall of Munich in Germany, at the Sala
Nezahualcoyotl of Mexico City, at the Sao Carlos of Lisbon,at the 43rd International Festival of
Osaka. In USA he has performed at the Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Houston Grand
Opera, Metropolitan Opera New York and San Francisco Opera.
He has conducted the "Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale diS.Cecilia”, the "Orchestra del Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino", the "Gewandhaus Orchester" of Leipzig, the "Sachsische Staatskapelle
Dresden", the Symphonic Orchestra "G. Verdi" in Milan, the WienRadio Symphiony Orchestra , the
Symphonic Orchestra Toscanini, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of
San Petersrburg, "la Orquesta de Galicia", the "Orchestre National de Montpellier", Philarmonia
Orchestra" of London, the "Orchestre National de Belgique", the Bayerische Staatsorchester" of
Munich, the Philarmonic of Montecarlo, the "Ensemble Orchestral de Paris", "la Orquesta
Filarmonica de Gran Canaria", the Philharmonic Lutowlasky of Wroclav, the Soloists of Prague, the
Radio Orchestra of Rumania, the Philharmonic Orchestra "G. Enescu" of Bucharest, the Tokyo
Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Philarmonic.
The record company Supraphon published his Mirandolina. For Decca he recorded the recital of
Juan Diego Florez, dedicated to Bellini and Donizetti with the Symphonic Orchestra "G.Verdi" in
Milan, which won the Cannes Classical Award 2004, La fille du regiment, recorded live at Teatro
Carlo Felice in Genova (DVD), and Matilde di Shabran. The Dynamic published his Nabucco, Maria
Stuarda and Tancredi in DVD e TDK.
Frizza conducted the Verdis's Falstaff in Seattle and a new production of Armida at Metropolitan
Opera with great reviews from public and critics. Most recently he was in Bilbao with Don Carlo, at
Semperoper in Dresden with Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Anna Bolena in concert with Dresden
Staatskapelle, and he conducted a cycle of concerts at Seattle Symphony.
His future engagements include Lucrezia Borgia in San Francisco Opera, Cenerentola in ParisBastille, a new production of Elixir of Love in Dresden, Il Trovatore at Teatro La Fenice in Venice,
Les contes d'Hoffmann in Wien, Otello in Frankfurt and Norma at the Metropolitan Opera New
York.
His next symphonic engagements include Russian National Orchestra, Staatkepelle Weimar,
Budapest National Symphony Orchestra and Graz Musikverein.
He debuts at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona in 2001 directing the dance performance Stelle di
oggi, stelle di domani; in 2011 he returns for Manon Lescaut by Puccini.
He debuts at the Arena di Verona in 2013, directing Gala Verdi e Rigoletto by Verdi.
He returns in 2015 to direct Nabucco by Verdi, the inaugural opera of the Arena Festival, and
Tosca by Puccini.