Carlo Rizzi was Music Director of Welsh National Opera from 1992 to 2001 and returned to the Company from 2004 to 2007.

Previous Welsh National Opera performances
An Evening with WNO (Summer 2008), Carbon 12 - a Choral Symphony (Summer 2008), Aida (Summer 2008), Falstaff (Spring 2008), Il trovatore (Autumn 2007) & Cinderella (Autumn 2007)

He is principal guest conductor of Teatro Comunale di Bologna and a regular conductor at Metropolitan Opera, ROH Covent Garden, Opéra de Bastille, Zurich Opera, Netherlands Opera and La Scala. He has appeared with all the major London orchestras, Chicago Symphony, LA Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Israel Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic and Orchestra of Santa Cecilia, Rome.

His recordings include La traviata, Rigoletto, Faust, Un ballo in maschera and La Cenerentola, Respighi Tone Poems and the complete L'Arlesienne music.

Recent engagements include his debut at Salzburg Festival with a new production of La traviata (released on CD and DVD); a tour in Japan conducting Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Il trovatore and Andrea Chenier (released on DVD); his concert debut with the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields in Poland and London; Don Carlo in Zurich and engagements with the Orchestre National de Lyon, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Houston Grand Opera and The Metropolitan Opera.