FILE - Italian conductor Riccardo Muti, 80, rehearses Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera (A masked Ball)" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Chicago on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y.

A 36-year-old free music fest, still fresh after all these years; another Museum of Contemporary Art blockbuster; bugging out at the Field; the masters Ma and Muti and more. The musicians have ...

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 ...