Pietro Rizzo is one of the most talented conductos of his generaion, and has already a vast eperience of more than forty opera titles performed. In the past seasons he has made successfuk debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, Dallas Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

Pietro Rizzo began his musical studies with the violin, obtaining his diploma at the Conservatorio S Cecilia in Rome in 1992. He took part in the masterclasses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and then studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, receiving his Master’s of Music in Violin Performance in1996. From 1997 to 2000 he studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, with Leif Segerstam and Jorma Panula, graduating with a Master’s of Music in Orchestral Conducting.

From 2000 to 2003 he worked at the Finnish National Opera, where he conducted the productions of Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, Anna Bolena, Il Trovatore, Cenerentola, Don Carlos (5 act version) and Il Viaggio a Reims.

From 2003 to 2007 he served as Erste Kapellmeister at the Aalto Theater in Essen, where each season he conducted more than seventy performances of opera, concert and ballet.

From 2006 to 2009 he was Principal Conductor at the Goteborgs Operan in Sweden, where he conducted Falstaff, La Traviata, Faust, Eugen Onegin, La Boheme and several symphony concerts..
He has conducted the principal orchestras and opera companies in Finland, as well as having guested at the Volksoper Wien, the Rimsky-Korssakov State Opera Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Rossini Opera Festival, the Turku Music Festival, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Staatstheater Braunschweig, the Stadttheater Bern, the New Israeli Opera, the Teatro Calderon in Valladolid, Spain, and the Teatro Principal in Palma de Mallorca.

Pietro Rizzo is active in symphony concerts and has conducted the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic, The Belgian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Essener Philharmoniker, Bergische Symphoniker, WDR Rundfunkorchester in Koln, Aalborg Symfoniorkester (Denmark), Oviedo Filarmonia in Spain. He has recorded for the Finnish Radio, Swedish Radio and Swedish Television and has recorded a CD for Telos with the WDR Rundfunkorchester.

He enjoys working with young musicians: this year he has been named Music Director of the Orquesta Joven de la Sinfonica de Galicia, with which he has been intensely working since 2003; he is guest professor at the Vlaandere Operastudio in Gent, Belgium, where he gives regular masterclasses on Italian operatin repertoire since 2002. He is guest professor at the Gothenburg University, where he teaches repertoire classes and conducts concerts at the Swedish National Orchestra Academy.
Among his future engagements are Aida in Helsinki, Rigoletto at the Dallas Opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Festival de la Quincena Musical in San Sebastian, Spain, and his debut at the NNT in Tokyo with Trovatore in 2011