Riccardo Frizza
Conductor Riccardo Frizza has been a fixture in Italy's operatic scene while also appearing at such top international houses as the Paris Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He has conducted choral and symphonic music as well.
Frizza was born in Brescia, Italy, on December 14, 1971. He started out as a composer, attending the Milan Conservatory and studying under Elisabetta Brusa. Frizza then switched to conducting, working with Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and Gilberto Serembe at the Music Academy of Pescara. Frizza began his career in his hometown with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Brescia, where he served as principal conductor from 1994 to 2000. His vocal music debut came when he led a performance of Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Rossini Opera Festival in 2001. Frizza has since been associated with that festival, leading unusual Rossini repertory there, including the opera Adelaide di Borgogna in 2006. That year, he conducted Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri at the Washington National Opera in the U.S. Frizza broadened his repertory beyond Rossini, leading a performance of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore in 2004 that won a Cannes Classical Award. That year, he made his recording debut with a performance of Bohuslav Martinu's Mirandolina with the Belarus National Philharmonic Orchestra, released on the Supraphon label. Frizza is married to soprano Davinia Rodriguez, whom he conducted in a 2005 performance of L'elisir d'amore.
Frizza made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2009 with Verdi's Rigoletto and has led several recordings made at the Met. Frizza's Paris Opera debut came in 2012 with Rossini's La Cenerentola. He took the stage at La Scala in Milan, the premier Italian opera house, in 2012 with the rarely performed Oberto, Verdi's first opera. Another prestigious Italian debut came in 2015 at La Fenice in Venice with Verdi's La Traviata. In 2018, he traveled to Barcelona, Spain, to conduct a production of Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri. Frizza has led several recorded performances of unusual operas for the Dynamic label, including Donizetti's early Il Castello di Kenilworth in 2019. In 2023, he returned with a recording of Mascagni's L'amico Fritz on that label.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Made for Opera
Nadine Sierra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 4 mrt. 2022
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Una Furtiva Lagrima - Donizetti & Bellini Arias
Juan Diego Flórez, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2003
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (Live)
Opera - Released by Dynamic on 18 nov. 2022
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Airs d'opéra
Ramón Vargas, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Frizza
Opera - Released by CapriccioNR on 22 apr. 2013
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Brusa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5
Hungarian Radio Choir, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 12 apr. 2024
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Lehár: Der Zarewitsch: Einer wird kommen (Musical Moments)
Nadine Sierra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 26 aug. 2022
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Juan Diego Flórez - Una Furtiva Lagrima: Donizetti & Bellini Arias
Juan Diego Flórez, Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2003
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Puccini: Le Villi, SC 60: Se come voi piccina io fossi (Musical Moments)
Nadine Sierra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 14 mei 2021
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Puccini: La bohème, SC 67 / Act 1: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì (Musical Moments)
Nadine Sierra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 10 jun. 2022
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Erwin Schrott - Arias by Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Gounod & Meyerbeer
Erwin Schrott, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2008
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Rossini: Matilde di Shabran
Annick Massis, Juan Diego Flórez, Orquesta Sinfonica De Galicia, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2006
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The Three Queens: Donizetti
Lyric Opera of Chicago, Riccardo Frizza, Sondra Radvanovsky
Opera - Released by PENTATONE on 3 apr. 2022
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Made for Opera
Nadine Sierra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 4 mrt. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Puccini: Le Villi, SC 60: Se come voi piccina io fossi (Musical Moments)
Nadine Sierra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 14 mei 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lehár: Der Zarewitsch: Einer wird kommen (Musical Moments)
Nadine Sierra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 26 aug. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Puccini: La bohème, SC 67 / Act 1: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì (Musical Moments)
Nadine Sierra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Riccardo Frizza
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 10 jun. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo