Claudio Rizzi

Location:

Stuttgart
Germany 70329

Additional Info:

Claudio Rizzi was born in Conegliano – Italy in 1968 and studied Organ and Harpsichord at the Conservatorio “A.Steffani” – Castelfranco Veneto. He followed the classes of Amedeo Aroma, Daniel Roth, Michael Radulescu, Michel Chapuis, Patrizia Marisaldi and Christophe Rousset.

At the Icelandic Opera in Reykjavík he worked as singer coach from 1997 to 2000 and since the beginning of the 2001/02 season, pianist and voice coach at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, where he worked as a specialist in italian opera productions such as Tosca, Norma, Trovatore, La Boheme, Otello and Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Idomeneo and Mozart's Da Ponte operas, and baroque operas like Handel's Giulio Cesare, Alcina, Purcell's King Arthur, Keiser’s Masaniello furioso, Martín y Soler’s Una cosa rara and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.

Since 2002 he is teacher of italian repertoire at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.
He also accompanied master classes with Katia Ricciarelli at the Accademia Lirica Internazionale and at the Lotte-Lehmann-Woche with Karan Armstrong.

At the Fortepiano, Harpsichord and Organ he is specialized continuo player and has a lively collaboration 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 Carydis and Rico Saccani and a guest at the Solothurn Festival, at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele and with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, he is a partner in symphonic and chamber music concerts with compositions by Mercadante up to Zelenka among the others.

Claudio continuously coaches a number of professional singers with a repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Simon Holt, including the Belcanto repertoire, Wagner and Verdi.
He has a unique sight-reading “prima vista” ability and sense of style.
Maestro Alan Curtis, president of the EEC committee on courses of ancient music, offered Claudio the first position as a Harpsichord player, and appreciated his ability in basso continuo. Other conductors that appreciated Claudio are:
Anton Guadagno, Robin Stapleton, Howard Moody, Enrique Mazzola, Nicholas Kok, Josep Caballé Domenech, Konrad Junghänel, Richard Hickox and Anthony Rooley.
"Mr. Rizzi is an excellent pianist, musician and a colleague. His responsibilities are coaching singers their music and teaching them how to manage difficult soloist roles of the opera repertoire as a pianist and language coach. Everyone who works with him appreciate both its expertise on both collegial and individual level, when he teaches and gives necessary critic, is his judgment based on natural talent, years of experience and generous musical instincts. We value his work a great deal."
Prof. Stephan Schmidt
Contact: claudio_rizzi@msn.com

Instruments

Piano, Organ, Harpsichord

Specialisms

Early Music, Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment, Vocal Repetiteur, Musical Theatre, Musical Direction

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