The highlight of Carlo Rizzari’s training as a conductor began in 2006, when he became Antonio Pappano’s Musical Assistant at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. While he was in this role, he was invited by Claudio Abbado for a concert series in Bologna and Lucerne with the Orchestra Mozart. He now regularly conducts the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Roma, working with great soloists such as John Osborn, Barry Banks, Celso Albelo, Sonia Ganassi, and Lang Lang.

Carlo has had the pleasure of conducting many other distinguished orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Suisse Romande Orchestra, Graz Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of San Carlo Theatre in Naples, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the Orchestra of the Bellini Theatre in Catania, the Italian Swiss Orchestra and Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in Milan.

In May 2016 he had his debut at the Hamburg Staatsoper with La traviata.