Aldo Brizzi

Aldo Brizzi is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Brizzi was born in Alessandria, Italy, in 1960. He studied piano, viola and composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and later graduated in DAMS from the University of Bologna. As a composer and conductor, he has worked between Europe and Brazil. In 2016, he founded the Núcleo de Ópera da Bahia in Salvador. His stage works include Gabriel et Gabriel, performed at the Opéra de Tours in November 2015. He also composed Jelin, an opera in two acts, which premiered at the Teatro Alessandrino in Alessandria on 17 September 2021. Brizzi collaborated with Gilberto Gil on Amor Azul, an opera co-written by the two musicians and performed at the Auditorium de Radio France in Paris in December 2022. The production was presented in concerts on 2, 3 and 4 December 2022 by the Chœur de Radio France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with Brizzi conducting. In 2025, he co-composed the opera I-Juca Pirama with Gilberto Gil, with a libretto by Paulo Coelho. The work received its world premiere at the Theatro da Paz in Belém on 10 November 2025, with further performances on 11 and 12 November, as part of the XXI