Riccardo Chailly (born February 20, 1953) is an Italian conductor. He started his career as an opera conductor and gradually extended his repertoire to encompass symphonic music. Italian conductor Source: http://www. ... February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... The foyer of Charles Garniers Opéra, Paris, opened 1875 Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music. ...

Chailly was born in Milan in a musical family. His father, Luciano, is a composer and young Riccardo studied composition with him. Location within Italy Piazza della Scala Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed of Italian regions. ...

At age twenty, Chailly became assistant conductor to Claudio Abbado at La Scala. He made his conducting debut at there in 1978 and was soon great demand, making appearances at the Vienna, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Salzburg Festival, and the Bavarian State Opera. Claudio Abbado (born June 26, 1933) is a noted Italian conductor. ... La Scala The Teatro alla Scala (or La Scala for short), in Milan, Italy, is one of the worlds most famous opera houses. ... Vienna State Opera (German: Wiener Staatsoper), located in Vienna, Austria, is one of the most important opera companies in Europe. ... The Metropolitan Opera is located at Lincoln Center in New York, New York. ... The Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House is a performing arts venue in London. ... Covent Garden is a shopping and entertainment complex in central London. ... The Salzburg Festival is a prominent music festival in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The festival was founded in 1877 but was discontinued in 1910. ... Categories: Stub | Opera companies ...

From 1982 to 1988, Chailly was chief conductor of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and from 1982 to 1985 principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic. From 1986 to 1993, he led the Teatro Comunale of Bologna. The London Philharmonic Orchestra (frequently abbreviated to LPO), based in London, is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ... Teatro Comunale Bologna is an opera company and an opera house in Bologna, Italy. ...

From 1988 to 2004, Chailly was chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra where he dedicated himself to performances of the standard symphonic tradition, notably Bruckner and Mahler, with which the orchestra made its name but also significantly broadened the repertoire with 20th century and contemporary music. Among notable projects, Chailly led the 1995 Mahler Festival that celebrated the 100th anniversary of Mahler's first concert at the Concertgebouw. Chailly also conducted opera in Amsterdam, both at the Concertebouw Orchestra's annual Christmas Matinee concert as well as at De Nederlandse Opera, where he bade his operatic farewell to Amsterdam with a production of Verdi's Don Carlo. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest in Dutch) is the best known and most respected orchestra in the Netherlands, and is generally considered to be among the worlds finest. ... Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner (September 4, 1824 – October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer. ... Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 – May 18, 1911) was best known in his own time as one of the leading Austrian conductors of his day, but is now remembered as an important composer linking the late 19th century with the modern musical period, particularly for his vast symphonies... Lucas Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is a great composer. ... In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. ... De Nederlandse Opera (DNO) is the leading opera company of the Netherlands. ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was one of the great composers of Italian opera. ... Don Carlos is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. ...

In August 2005, Chailly takes up his new position in Leipzig as the chief conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and general music director of Oper Leipzig. Map of Germany showing Leipzig Leipzig [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Polish; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is a German orchestra based in Leipzig. ... Oper Leipzig is an opera house and opera company in Leipzig, Germany. ...