Conductor
World
Pietro Rizzo has conducted in some of the most important opera houses of the world, such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Sächsische Staatsoper in Dresden, the New National Theater in Tokyo, the Rome Opera House, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, the Staatsoper in Hamburg, the Dallas Opera, the ABAO in Bilbao, the Volksoper in Wien.
His wide repertory includes more than 50 titles from the whole operatic literature; he is also very active in the symphonic field, and has conducted the WDR Radio Orchestra in Köln, the SWR Radio Orchestra in Baden Baden, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the RAI Radio Symphony Orchestra in Turin, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia.
Pietro Rizzo was born in Rome, after graduating as a violinist from the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in his hometown in 1992, he continued his studies at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, USA. From 1997 to 2000 he studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, with Jorma Panula and Leif Segerstam, graduating in 2000.
He has been Erste Kapellmeister at the Aalto Theater in Essen, Chief Conductor at the Gothenburg Opera and since 2000 he is a regular guest at the Finnish National Opera.
Highlights of past seasons include Nabucco and La Bohème at Semperoper Dresden, La traviata and La bohème at Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, La bohème at Melbourne Arts Festival, La fanciulla del west at Korea National Opera Seoul, Norma at ABAO Bilbao, Il pirata and L’elisir d’amore in St. Gallen, Mascagni’s Il piccolo Marat with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
He enjoys an intense activity with young musicians: he is a professor at the International Opera Academy, and has a long collaboration with the Youth Orchestra of the Sinfonica de Galicia (La Coruña, Spain) where he also served ad Music Director and Artistic Director.
He has performed and recorded for the Dutch Radio, Finnish Radio, Swedish Radio and for the Nightingale Classics (a CD of Bellini’s La straniera with Edita Gruberova) and Naxos Records (G. Rossini’s Le nozze di Teti e Peleo).
LATEST PERFORMANCES: Hänsel und Gretel in St. Gallen; Rigoletto at Welsh National Opera Cardiff; Tosca at Royal Opera Stockholm; Simon Boccanegra in Helsinki; Madama Butterfly in Lecce; Nabucco at Slovak National Theatre Bratislava;Lucrezia Borgia at Aalto Theater Essen; Turandot in Helsinki; La bohème at Welsh National Opera Cardiff; La traviata at Royal Opera Stockholm; La fanciulla del west at Hungarian State Opera Budapest; Tosca at Semperoper Dresden;La fanciulla del west in Pavia.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Il trovatore at NCPA Beijing; Nabucco at Slovak National Theatre Bratislava; Tosca in Helsinki; La traviata at Bregenz Festival.
