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Schedule
2024/25 Season
Florentina Holzinger – Sancta
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | SEPTEMBER 2024
Marco Rizzello serves on the music staff for Florentina Holzinger’s show, which includes a performance of Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna. Conductor: Marit Strindlund; Director: Florentina Holzinger.
W. A. Mozart – Die Zauberflöte
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | OCTOBER 2024
Marco Rizzello serves on the music staff for Barrie Kosky’s production of Mozart’s most performed opera, which includes performances of Mozart’s Fantasia in d minor K397 and Fantasia in c minor K475. Conductor: José Luis Gutiérrez/ Vlad Iftinca; Director: Barrie Kosky, Suzanne Andrade.
W. A. Mozart – Idomeneo
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | NOVEMBER 2024
Marco Rizzello serves on the music staff for Mozart’s “Sturm und Drang” Opera, set in Ancient Greece. Conductor: Cornelius Meister; Director: Bastian Kraft.
J. Strauss/ R. Benatzky – Casanova
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | NOVEMBER 2024
Marco Rizzello plays the Celesta in the Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Cornelius Meister/Luka Hauser;
Director: Marco Štorman.
G. Puccini – Tosca
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | DECEMBER/JANUARY 2024/2025
Marco Rizzello plays the Organ in the Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Alevtina Ioffe; Director: Willy Decker.
S. Prokofiev – Игрок (The Gambler)
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | DECEMBER/JANUARY 2024/2025
Marco Rizzello serves on the music staff for Prokofiev’s opera based on Dostoevskij’s novel by the same name. Conductor: Nicholas Carter; Director: Axel Ranisch.
R. Wagner – Parsifal
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | MARCH 2025
Marco Rizzello serves on the music staff for Wagner’s last musical masterpiece. Conductor: Cornelius Meister; Director: Calixto Bieito.
S. Prokofiev – Symphony n.5
LIEDERHALLE STUTTGART – BEETHOVENSAAL | MARCH 2025
Marco Rizzello plays the piano in the Staatsorchester Stuttgart.
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti.
E. Elgar – Enigma Variations
LIEDERHALLE STUTTGART – BEETHOVENSAAL | APRIL 2025
Marco Rizzello plays the organ in the Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Kerem Hasan.
G. Verdi – Otello
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | APRIL/MAY 2025
Marco Rizzello serves on the music staff for Verdi’s opera from the Shakespearean masterpiece by the same name. Conductor: Stefano Montanari; Director: Silvia Costa.
Vivian and Ketan Bhatti – Der Rote Wahl
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | MAY/JUNE 2025
Marco Rizzello serves on the music staff for the new opera by Vivian and Ketan Bhatti. Conductor: Keren Kagarlitsky; Director: Martin G. Berger.
W. A. Mozart – Zaide
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | JUNE 2025
Marco Rizzello serves on the music staff for Mozart’s unfinished opera. Conductor: N.N.; Director: Jessica Glause.
G. Verdi - Rigoletto
STAATSOPER STUTTGART | JUNE 2025
Marco Rizzello serves on the music staff for Verdi’s opera based on Victor Hugo’s Le roi s’amuse. Conductor: Andriy Yurkevych; Director: Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito.
G. Mahler – Symphony n.8
LIEDERHALLE STUTTGART – BEETHOVENSAAL | JULY 2025
Marco Rizzello plays the organ in the Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Cornelius Meister.
Past Highlights
Summer Festival
RAVINIA STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE 2024 | STAFF PIANIST
Don Giovanni
SANTA FE OPERA 2024 | DICTION COACH
La traviata
SANTA FE OPERA 2024 | DICTION COACH
Madama Butterfly
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA- MILLER OPERA THEATER 2024 | MUSIC STAFF
Don Giovanni
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA 2024 | MUSIC STAFF
Lenten Recital Series
ST. PAUL'S CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, HOUSTON, TX 2024 | PIANIST
Butler Studio Recital
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA 2024 | PIANIST
Madama Butterfly
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA 2023 | MUSIC STAFF
Rienzi Recital
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 2024 | RECITALIST
Intelligence (world premiere)
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA 2023 | MUSIC STAFF
Summer Festival
WOLF TRAP OPERA 2023 | COACHING FELLOW
Don Giovanni
WOLF TRAP OPERA 2023 | MUSIC STAFF
Night and Day, USA
WOLF TRAP OPERA 2023 | RECITALIST
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