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Pietro Rizzo

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From 2000 to 2003 Pietro Rizzo worked at the Finnish National Opera, where he conducted the productions of Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, Anna Bolena, Il Trovatore, Cenerentola, Don Carlos (5 act version) and Il Viaggio a Reims.
From 2003 to 2007 Pietro Rizzo served as Erste Kapellmeister at the Aalto Theater in Essen, where each season he conducted more than seventy performances of opera, concert and ballet.
From 2006 to 2009 Pietro Rizzo was Principal Conductor at the Goteborgs Operan in Sweden, where he conducted Falstaff, La Traviata, Faust, Eugen Onegin, La Boheme and several symphony concerts..
He has conducted the principal orchestras and opera companies in Finland, as well as having guested at the Volksoper Wien, the Rimsky-Korssakov State Opera Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Rossini Opera Festival, the Turku Music Festival, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Staatstheater Braunschweig, the Stadttheater Bern, the New Israeli Opera, the Teatro Calderon in Valladolid, Spain, and the Teatro Principal in Palma de Mallorca.
Pietro Rizzo is active in symphony concerts and has conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic, The Belgian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Essener Philharmoniker, Bergische Symphoniker, WDR Rundfunkorchester in Koln, Aalborg Symfoniorkester (Denmark), Oviedo Filarmonia in Spain. He has recorded for the Finnish Radio, Swedish Radio and Swedish Television and has recorded a CD for Telos with the WDR Rundfunkorchester.
Pietro Rizzo enjoys working with young musicians: this year he has been named Music Director of the Orquesta Joven de la Sinfonica de Galicia, with which he has been intensely working since 2003; he is guest professor at the Vlaandere Operastudio in Gent, Belgium, where he gives regular masterclasses on Italian operatin repertoire since 2002. He is guest professor at the Gothenburg University, where he teaches repertoire classes and conducts concerts at the Swedish National Orchestra Academy.
Among his future engagements are Aida in Helsinki, Rigoletto at the Dallas Opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Festival de la Quincena Musical in San Sebastian, Spain, and his debut at the NNT in Tokyo with Trovatore in 2011

English

The Stranger

Rustic Chivalry

Pagliacci

Nabucco

Roberto Devereux

The Favorite

The Journey to Reims

The Force of Destiny

La traviata

La Bohème

The Elixir of Love

Rigoletto

The Magic Flute

The Merry Widow

A Masked Ball

Andrea Chenier

Così fan tutte

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Barber of Seville

Manon Lescaut

Hansel and Gretel

Orpheus in the Underworld

Carmen

Falstaff

Luisa Miller

Lucia of Lammermoor

The Marriage of Figaro

Tosca

The Italian Girl in Algiers

Faust

Eugene Onegin

Lucrezia Borgia

Madame Butterfly

Anne Boleyn

Cinderella

Don Carlos (French version)

Norma

Don Giovanni

Aida

The Swallow

Don Carlo (Italian version)

La Gioconda

Macbeth

The Troubadour

The Turk in Italy

Othello

The Pirate

The Marriage of Thetis and Peleus

Turandot

The Little Marat

The Girl of the Golden West

Symphony No. 40

Symphony No. 8/7 in B minor D 759 (Unfinished)

Oboe Concerto in C major, K.314/271k

Symphony No. 1, op. 39

Symphony No. 3 in D Major, op. 29

Simon Boccanegra

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