Italian conductor Riccardo Frizza made his San Francisco Opera debut in 2011 with Lucrezia Borgia. He served as conductor in residence for the Symphonic Orchestra of Brescia from 1994 to 2000. His recent appearances include Armida, Il Trovatore, and Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera; Il Turco in Italia in Berlin; L’Elisir d’Amore in Amsterdam; and Otello in Tokyo. Frizza’s other credits include Die Zauberflöte at Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice, Don Giovanni at Theater an der Wien, I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Bilbao, La Fille du Régiment at Houston Grand Opera, La Cenerentola at the Bavarian State Opera, Luisa Miller in Leipzig, and Aida at Tokyo’s New National Theatre and Seattle Opera. Frizza has led many orchestras in Europe and Asia, including Florence’s Maggio Musicale Orchestra, Rome’s Academia di Santa Cecilia, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, the Bavarian State Opera, the Radio Symphony of Vienna, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, among others. His many recordings include Martinů’s Mirandolina (Supraphon), La Fille du Régiment (Decca), Verdi’s Nabucco (TDK, also on DVD), and Rossini’s Tancredi (TDK). Frizza made his Seattle Opera debut conducting Verdi’s Aida. Recent engagements include Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Anna Bolena with Dresden’s Saxon State Opera, Don Carlos in Bilbao, Don Pasquale in Florence, Manon Lescaut in Florence and Tokyo, and a return to the Met for Armida.