It takes little prompting for Muti to bemoan a host of cultural problems: the decline in music education, players and conductors too lazy to properly prepare or respect the letter of the score ...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra conductor Riccardo Muti abruptly — but briefly — halted a Saturday night performance after a member of the audience coughed loudly, according to the CSO. Maestro ...

The first Korean conductor to direct Italy's Teatro alla Scala, Chung Myung-whun, remembers his first day at the prestigious ...

La Scala and I have been best friends for 36 years, but now that we’ve become family, I feel a greater sense of ...

The CSO embarked on its final tour with retiring conductor Riccardo Muti in January 2024, performing a series of sold-out concerts across seven countries. Todd Rosenberg / Courtesy of the Chicago ...

Conductor Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra inaugurated Carnegie Hall’s 2012-13 season last Wednesday night with a brilliant rendition of Carmina Burana, Carl Orff’s beloved choral ...

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 ...

Mäkelä’s contract guarantees at least 14 weeks of appearances with the Chicago orchestra each season — the same amount as Muti, his predecessor. But for one conductor to helm two ultra ...

CHICAGO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Conductor Riccardo Muti seized the baton of the Chicago Symphony on Thursday, promising to improve the revered orchestra and surprise with a diverse program featuring ...

The conductor observes the proceedings. [Photo provided to China Daily] Muti studied the piano and composing for 10 years before learning to conduct. "You have to know music very well. You have to ...