Carlo Rizzi (born 19 July 1960, Milan, Italy) is an Italian conductor. Rizzi studied music at the Milan Conservatory. He later was a conducting student of Vladimir Delman, in Bologna, and with Franco Ferrara in Siena. His opera conducting debut was in 1982, with Donizetti's L'ajo nell'imbarazzo. In 1985, he won the first Toscanini Conductor's Competition in Parma. Rizzi's recordings include an English-language version of Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová (Chandos), and a DVD set of La Traviata (Deutsche Grammophon).