Carlo Rizzari conducted the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, the Suisse Romande Orchestra, Graz Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Tuscany, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the Teatro San Carlo Theater Orchestra in Naples, the Toscanini Orchestra, the Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in Milan, the Swiss Italian Orchestra, the Bellini Theater Orchestra in Catania and many others. A material point for his training is the experience fully grown, since 2006, as Antonio Pappano’s Musical Assistant at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. With the same he was invited by Claudio Abbado for a concerts series in Bologna and Lucerna with the Orchestra Mozart. He regularly conducts the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra during the symphonic seasons and for the Family Concerts, working with great soloists as John Osborn, Barry Banks, Celso Albelo, Sonia Ganassi, Lang Lang. Ha was invited by Kent Nagano to collaborate with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted at the Knowlton Festival and inside the Performing Art Center. In this last occasion the concert, dedicated to Respighi (Fontane di Roma, Pini di Roma), received an enthusiastic standing ovation of the audience. He inaugurated, in Rieti, the Reate Festival editions 2009, 2010 and 2011 conducting, inside the Flavio Vespasiano Theater, Donizetti’s Il Campanello, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Ravel’s Heure Espagnole, Rossini’s Adina. As a Belcanto expert he conducted also Don Pasquale at Sao Carlo Theater in Lisbon, the Rossini’s opera il Signor Bruschino in Rome, Puccini’s La Bohème at the Bellini Theater in Catania. At the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari he conducted Beethoven 5th and 7th symphonies, with great success, and a new production of Rigoletto, repeated at the Carlo Felice Theater in Genua. He has been one of the four conductors of “Play It!”, the festival held by the Orchestra of Tuscany in Florence dedicated to new italian composers and winner of the prestigous Abbiati price 2014. In May 2016 he had his brilliant debut at the Hamburg Staatsoper with Traviata, which has inagurated a every year collaboration with operas as Carmen, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
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