Riccardo Muti returned to town this past week heralded by heaven-perched trumpets and presiding over scenes of destruction and eternal light. The Verdi Requiem has long been a showcase for the Italian ...

Born July 28th 1941, Riccardo Muti is an Italian conductor and spent six years as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1986 Muti was appointed as music director at La Scala, Milan. For ...

The big, lush and decidedly cinematic music delivers little that is particularly original or especially fresh. Instead, the ...

There was a huge crowd, nearly a completely full house, on Thursday night at Symphony Center when Riccardo Muti returned to ...

I will have a piece about Riccardo Muti, the veteran conductor. In the meantime, some will enjoy a podcast with him: here. Maestro Muti is many people’s idea of a conductor — in comportment ...

He conducted Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” with pianist Mitsuko Uchida, then returned this weekend with a premiere of ...

He’s Riccardo ... conductor deserves another — and this is Sir Georg Solti, again in Grant Park, who led the orchestra from 1969 to 1991: Will there be a monument of some kind to Muti in ...

Documents the interpretations of Gustav Mahlers compositions by conductors Bernard Haitink Riccardo Chailly Riccardo Muti Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle who detail the special relationship they ...