Pietro Rizzo

Pietro Rizzo has conducted in some of the most important opera houses of the world, such as Metropolitan Opera New York, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, New National Theater in Tokyo, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Royal Swedish Opera Stockholm, Dallas Opera and many others.

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.

Born in Rome, after graduating as a violinist from the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in his hometown Pietro Rizzo 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, 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.

His latest performances include Tosca at Semperoper Dresden, Sleeping Beauty in Helsinki, La fanciulla del west at Hungarian State Opera Budapest, the same work at Korea National Opera Seoul, and Mascagni’s Il piccolo Marat with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at Concertgebouw Amsterdam.