Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly is a conductor whose career reads like a map of the great European orchestras, and that breadth is exactly why I take him seriously. The Concertgebouw, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, now La Scala and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, he has held the chairs that matter. What I admire is his refusal to be only a museum keeper. His Mahler and his Italian opera both feel rethought rather than inherited. The data here mislabels him as American, but he is Milanese to the core, and you hear that operatic sensibility even in his symphonic work. He is one of the conductors I trust to make familiar scores sound newly argued.

Name (English)

Riccardo Chailly

Name (Japanese)

リッカルド・シャイー

Reading

りっかるど・しゃいー

Born

February 20, 1953 (age 73)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

Origin

Milan, province of Milan, Italy

Occupation

conductor

Awards & achievements

• Feltrinelli Prize
• 2009 Leipzig International Mendelssohn Prize
• 1998 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 2012 Echo Klassik – Conductor of the Year
• 1998 Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
• 1994 Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.riccardochailly.com/#/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC

Tags

• province of Milan
• conductor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.