Aldo Brizzi

Studies at the Milan Conservatory, conducting workshops with Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, and Sergiu Celibidache.

His awards include the Venezia Opera Prima del Teatro La Fenice (1981), European Year of Music (Biennale di Venezia, Festival d'Automne in Paris, WDR di Cologne/Köln, 1985), Concorso nazionale Franco Evangelisti in Rome/Roma (1986), and the Young Composers' Forum in Cologne/Köln (1989).

and recorded albums with Bamberger Symphoniker, Filarmonica di Torino, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa.

Aldo Brizzi has written operas such as “Mambo Mistico” (libretto by Alfredo Arias) produced by Theatre National de Chaillot – Paris, “Gabriel et Gabriel” performed in many theaters in France, “Ópera dos Terreiros” performed in Grenoble, Rome, Belém and Salvador, “Jelin”, a comic opera set on the background of the events of the year zero, premiered in Alessandria, Italy in 2021 and a new orchestration of “Treemonisha” by Scott Joplin.

A new opera, "Amor Azul", written with Gilberto Gil, was premiered in Paris in 2022 by Chorus and Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France.