Riccardo Frizza

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Riccardo Frizza is Musical Director and Artistic Director of the Bergamo Donizetti Opera Festival and Honorary Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir. A native of Brescia, he trained at the Conservatory of Milan and at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena and is widely regarded as one of today’s leading conductors, regularly collaborating with the world’s most prestigious opera houses. He is in great demand as a conductor of opera, but also devotes himself with passion, as can be seen from his busy schedule, to the symphonic repertoire, which has taken him to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra, Euskadiko Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Haydn and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. From the spring of 2022 to that of 2025, he served as Chief Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, whose repertoire he is enriching with masterpieces by Richard Strauss and Mahler, but also Italian orchestral works by Martucci and Respighi. He has created an intense partnership with these historic ensembles, now continuing as their Honorary Conductor, in Budapest, on tour and in recordings. Their first CD, released in spring 2024, consists of the Requiem and Stabat mater by Elisabetta Brusa, one of the most innovative and eminent com

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