Claudio RIZZI (Italy)

Coach and Pianist

Claudio Rizzi was born in Conegliano – Italy and studied Organ and Harpsichord at the Conservatorio “A.Steffani” – Castelfranco Veneto.

He worked at the Icelandic Opera in Reykjavik, from 1997 to 2000 and since the beginning of the 2001/02 season, at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, where he specializes in italian opera productions and Baroque operas. Since 2002 he teaches Italian repertoire at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. He also accompanied master classes with Katia Ricciarelli at the Accademia Lirica Internazionale.

As a continuo player he regularly cooperates with renowned conductors such as Roy Goodman, Lothar Zagrosek, Werner Ehrhardt and Alessandro De Marchi and with singers like Emma Kirkby, Katia Ricciarelli and Matthias Rexroth. He played in performances and concerts under Jean-Claude Malgoire, Roy Goodman, Eiji Oue, Constantinos Caridis and Rico Saccani and as a guest at the Solothurn Festival, at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele and with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra.  He also worked with Alan Curtis, Anton Guadagno, Robin Stapleton, Howard Moody, Rico Saccani, Enrique Mazzola Nicholas Kok, Josep Caballé Domenech, Konrad Junghänel, Richard Hickox and Anthony Rooley.