9.00pm, Wednesday 4 August 2010, Teatro Signorelli
Performing with Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Dénes Várjon (piano) with the Orchestra della Toscana

Riccardo Frizza studied at the Academy of Music in Milan, the Philharmonic Academy in Verona and finally at the Chigiana Academy in Siena. In 1998 he won the International Competition of the South Bohemia State-Philharmonic Conductors (Czech Republic). From 1994 to 2000, he was a conductor in residence for the Symphonic Orchestra of Brescia, directing the Beethoven Symphonies and other symphonic repertory.

Regularly conducting during Italian opera festivals, he has appeared at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, at the Due Mondi Festival in Spoleto, at the Festival of Martina Franca, at the Festival Verdi in Parma, at the “Teatro Filarmonico” in Verona, at the “Teatro Grande” in Brescia, at the “Settimane musicali “ in Stresa, at the “Teatro della Fortuna” of Fano, at the “Teatro Verdi” in Busseto, at the “Teatro Donizetti” in Bergamo, Opera di Roma, “Teatro Comunale di Bologna”, “Teatro Regio “ in Turin , “Teatro Carlo Felice” in Genoa  and “Teatro del maggio musicale Fiorentino”.

Abroad he has led some of the world’s most important orchestras at the most important festivals in France, UK Russia, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic and Japan as well as during their subscription performances throughout the year.

The record company Supraphon published his Mirandolina. For Decca he recorded the recital of Juan Diego Florez, dedicated to Bellini and Donizetti with the Symphonic Orchestra “G.Verdi” in Milan, which won the Cannes Classical Award 2004.  

Recently Frizza conducted Falstaff in Seattle and a new production of Armida at Metropolitan Opera with great reviews from public and critics.  His future engagements include: Don Pasquale in Florence, Manon Lescaut at the New National Theater in Tokyo, Lucrezia Borgia in San Francisco, Lucia di Lammermoor in Dallas, Don Carlo in Bilbao, Cenerentola in Paris-Bastille,a new production of Elixir of Love in Dresden.