Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti ( born July 28, 1941 in Naples ) is an Italian conductor.

Life

Riccardo Muti's musical parents encouraged his interest in music, so he early began piano and singing lessons. At the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella in Naples, he studied music and graduated from as a pianist. Composing and conducting learned Muti at the Milan Verdi Conservatory.

The conductor Guido Cantelli price of the competition of 1967 brought Muti public attention. Shortly thereafter, he made his conducting debut with the Italian Radio and Television Orchestra. He quickly became a sought-after guest conductor of all the major orchestras in the world. 1972 Muti first came to the U.S. with the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose music director he was in 1980.

Orchestra

Muti has conducted or will conduct a variety of renowned orchestras in opera and concert performances, as well as on the occasion of recordings. Luigi Cherubini's works and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are as much part of his repertoire as compositions of the Italian romantic operas of Richard Wagner and pieces of the 20th century.

After the death of Otto Klemperer in 1973 Muti became his successor at the New Philharmonia Orchestra in London. As the successor of Eugene Ormandy, he worked from 1980 to 1992 as chief conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Since 2010, Muti has this post at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, succeeding Bernard Haitink held.

With the Vienna Philharmonic connects Muti decades close cooperation. He directs in subscription concerts, on tours or even conducted their New Year's Concert 2000.

Salzburg Festival

From 1971 to Muti conducted every year at the Salzburg Festival. Since then, he was head of opera and concert performances. In 1983, he conducted a new production of applause recorded with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così fan tutte (directed by Michael Hampe ) and 2005 The Magic Flute (directed by Graham Vick ). In 2006 he oversaw a new production of The Magic Flute, directed by Pierre Audi with a set of Karel Appel. In the Grosses Festspielhaus, he brought with the Vienna Philharmonic, the composition Giusta Armonia by Fabio Vacchi premiered.

Vienna State Opera

Since 1973, Muti performs regularly at the Vienna State Opera: His debut with Giuseppe Verdi's Aida (1973, directed by Nathaniel Merrill, Set Design: Günther Schneider- Siemssen Costumes: Leo In ) followed, among others Verdi's La forza del destino (1974, directed by Luigi Squarzina, sets and costumes by Pier Luigi Pizzi ), Vincenzo Bellini's Norma (1977, directed by Piero Faggioni, Stage: Ezio Frigerio Costume Designer: Franca Squarciapino ), Verdi's Rigoletto (1983, directed by Sandro Sequi, stage: Pantelis Dessyllas, costumes: Giuseppe Crisolini - Malatesta ), and - at the Theater an der Wien - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (2001, directed by Michael Heltau by Giorgio Strehler, Stage: Ezio Frigerio Costume Designer: Franca Squarciapino ).

In December 2005 and in April 2006, Muti has conducted at the State Opera in total eight performances of Le nozze di Figaro ( directed and designed by: Jean -Pierre Ponnelle ).

In February 2008 he conducted at the Staatsoper four acclaimed by the public performances of Così fan tutte with Barbara Frittoli ( Fiordiligi ), Angelika Kirschschlager ( Dorabella ), Ildebrando D' Arcangelo ( Guglielmo ), Francesco Meli ( Ferrando ), Laura Tatulescu ( Despina ) and Natale De Carolis ( Don Alfonso ). The staging of Roberto de Simone (stage: Mauro Carosi, Costumes: Odette Nicoletti ) had conducted Muti some years before, at the Theater an der Wien in a co-production of the Vienna Festival and the State Opera.

La Scala

1980 Muti made ​​his debut at La Scala in a new production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (directed by Giorgio Strehler ). In 1986, he was followed by Claudio Abbado as music director of this opera house and led numerous new productions - especially of works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.

Muti conducted on 7 December 2004 on the occasion of the reopening of La Scala opera L'Europa riconosciuta by Antonio Salieri (directed by Luca Ronconi, features: Pizzi ) after the theater had previously been closed for renovations for several years.

Chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala, Riccardo Muti was appointed in 1987 and played with this in the following year a tour of Japan, Germany and France, who joined a tour through the former USSR in 1989.

In April 2005, Muti ended his work as music director of La Scala, Milan, after the favored candidate for the directorship of him Maurizio Meli had not found the hoped-for approval of the workforce. The musical staff spoke with from 700 to 5 votes against Muti. Meli was instead director of the Teatro Regio di Parma.

Awards

  • Large Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria on 19 June 2001
  • Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on 19 June 2001
  • Order of the British Empire in 2000
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Barcelona on 13 October 2003
  • GLOBArt Award in 2007
  • Prince of Asturias Award in the category Art and Birgit Nilsson Prize, the world's richest music award in 2011
  • Pope Benedict XVI. Muti recorded on 11 May 2012 with the Pontifical Gregoriusorden from.
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