The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra should know all there is to know about Beethoven's nine symphonies. For a start, they're one of the oldest orchestras in the world, and even more importantly, they ...

In 2015, it was announced that Riccardo Chailly would become music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, succeeding Claudio Abbado, who had died the previous year and had very much created the ...

Verdi imagined each of his operas painted with a different tincture. Conductor Riccardo Chailly puts together an exciting new album of Verdi's choruses, from his best known to his most obscure. This ...

Classic FM's Tim Lihoreau has been speaking to the Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly all about the Gewandhausorchester's performance of Beethoven's symphonies at London's Barbican Hall. This week saw ...

Conductors Rafael Payare and Franz Welser-Möst will step in. Rafael Payare will conduct the concert on April 11 and Franz Welser-Möst the second on Sunday, April 13, according to the communiqué. The ...

On November 10, 1909 in New York City, Gustav Mahler sat down at a harpsichord and led the New York Philharmonic in a performance of his own arrangement of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The great ...

LUCERNE, Switzerland — The Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a reputation, in America, as an also-ran. Over the years his name surfaced as a likely candidate in music director searches for the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The hype that has surrounded Riccardo Chailly’s arrival at La Scala is evidently well founded. As principal conductor ...

Riccardo Chailly is a native of Milan and made his conducting debut in 1978 Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has been named as new musical director of Milan opera house La Scala. The 60-year-old ...

The Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly began his career as an opera conductor before making his name as a formidable conductor of symphony orchestras. Chailly was born in Milan on February 20th 1953 ...