14 agosto 2015

Riccardo Chailly Direttore Musicale a Lucerna

Il Direttore Principale e dal 2017 Direttore Musicale del Teatro alla Scala raccoglie il testimone di Toscanini e Abbado alla guida del prestigioso Festival orchestrale svizzero


Il Teatro alla Scala rivolge le più sentite congratulazioni al suo Direttore Principale – e Direttore Musicale dal 2017 – Riccardo Chailly, che assumerà la carica di Direttore Musicale dell’Orchestra del Festival di Lucerna a partire dall’edizione 2016. L’annuncio della nomina del M° Chailly è avvenuto alla vigilia dell’apertura dell’edizione 2015 del Festival.


“Esprimiamo la più grande soddisfazione per questa nomina – ha dichiarato il Sovrintendente Alexander Pereira – che riveste uno straordinario significato artistico e storico e costituisce il più prestigioso completamento dell’attività del M° Chailly. Agli impegni operistici e sinfonici del Maestro con l’Orchestra e il Coro scaligeri durante l’anno farà seguito, in corrispondenza con la pausa estiva del Teatro, il lavoro con l’Orchestra del Festival, la cui storia è segnata dai nomi di Toscanini e di Abbado e che è composta da alcuni dei migliori strumentisti internazionali.”

La nomina di Riccardo Chailly affonda le sue radici nella storia del Festival, il cui sviluppo è strettamente legato alle figure di altri due direttori scaligeri: Arturo Toscanini, Direttore Musicale del Teatro alla Scala per tre differenti periodi dal 1898 al 1929, inaugura il Festival con una leggendaria serie di concerti nel 1938;  Claudio Abbado, Direttore Musicale alla Scala dal 1968 al 1986, forma nel 2003 la nuova Lucerne Festival Orchestra che raccoglie alcuni dei più prestigiosi solisti del mondo intorno a un nucleo di strumentisti della Mahler Chamber Orchestra. 

(Comunicato stampa del Teatro alla Scala di Milano)

Di seguito il comunicato Stampa del Festival di Lucerna.

Riccardo Chailly Is Named Music Director of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Lucerne, 13 August 2015. Riccardo Chailly is the new Music Director of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. He will take up this new position at the beginning of the 2016 Summer Festival, on 12 August 2016, when he will conduct the Festival orchestra for the first time in the opening concert in a program featuring Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Riccardo Chailly’s contract is for five years and stipulates that he will conduct the Orchestra in four to five concerts during the Summer Festival. Claudio Abbado, who together with Executive and Artistic Director Michael Haefliger founded the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA in 2003 and who led the ensemble for ten years, died on 20 January 2014.

“I am extremely delighted that with Riccardo Chailly we have succeeded in gaining a magnificent artist as the Music Director of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA,” observes Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of LUCERNE FESTIVAL. “Arturo Toscanini founded this unique symphony orchestra in 1938, and Claudio Abbado reestablished it in 2003 and brought it worldwide recognition. Riccardo Chailly marks the third time a great Italian conductor takes on leadership of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA. As an outstanding artistic personality, he will also make an imprint with strong new points of emphasis.”

“To be responsible for this great artistic project initiated by Claudio Abbado is not only a privilege but also something that touches me emotionally,“ says Riccardo Chailly.”„Ever since I was 18, when he appointed me to be his assistant at La Scala, Abbado was my model and then my point of reference and lifelong friend, with deep affection up to the very end.

I have collaborated with Michael Haefliger for many years in a spirit of full artistic understanding. I believe that working with him offers a real opportunity to maintain and develop the musical profile of the Orchestra and of the Festival, both in Switzerland and worldwide, as they deserve.”

Riccardo Chailly, who was born in 1953 in Milan, has served as Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra since 2005 and as Principal Conductor of La Scala in Milan since January 2015. He studied in Perugia, Rome, and Milan and at the age of 18 became Assistant Conductor to Claudio Abbado at La Scala in Milan. For 16 years starting in 1988, he was Principal Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam.

He regularly conducts the leading symphony orchestras in Europe and the United States: the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris, as well as the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He also regularly performed for such major opera companies as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, the Bavarian Staatsoper in Munich, and Zurich Opera. Riccardo Chailly has been a regular guest artist at LUCERNE FESTIVAL since 1988, performing with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.