Carlo Rizzi

A specialist in Italian opera, conductor Carlo Rizzi has often led lesser-known works in addition to the monuments of the genre. He also conducts non-Italian works as well as orchestral music of various kinds. Rizzi has a substantial recording catalog on labels large and small. That catalog included a series of albums with various singers devoted to the songs of Gaetano Donizetti; the third volume in that series appeared in 2025 on the Opera Rara label. Rizzi was born in Milan on July 19, 1960. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, going on for further work with Russian-born ...