The great Italian conductor has received us in his Ravenna’s house, Emilia-Romagna, on the occasion of the publication, by Warner Classics, of the full recordings, engraved between 1973 and 2007.
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Riccardo Muti has folded in his house of Ravenna when the pandemic canceled concerts, travels and tours, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been a musical director since 2010. We met him one morning of July , in this quiet corner of the old town of Emilia-Romagna, where the 80-year-old conductor, lives with his wife, the Cantatrier Cristina Mazzavillani, since 1976. “This will remain a tragic moment of our story, sighs the Maestro settling on the large sofa of the living room. Many people are dead. On the personal side, me who aspired to return home when I was long abroad, I must say that I sometimes lived these Last months as in a prison. “
RicCardo Muti did not recognize the volatile dates of his agenda, but the period further strengthened the climate of abandonment of art in Italy that it has been ceasing for decades. The leader, the first musician to lead a postconfine symphonic concert in Italy on June 21, 2020, did not hesitate to challenge former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in an open letter published on October 26 in the Corriere della will be . “It might have been able to take advantage of this period when people were forced to stay at home to bring them quality cultural programs instead of stupid emissions that continued to Swallow on Italian television,” Fulminated Maestro.
Legendary Authority
No has forgotten the historic evening of March 12, 2011 at the Rome Opera House, which celebrated the 150 years of Italian unity. After relaying in preamble the words of the former Mayor Gianni Alemanno, denouncing the budget cuts of culture in Italy Berlusconienne, Muti, who headed Nabucco, from Verdi, had taken advantage of the long ovation of the public at the time of the famous choir. Slaves, the famous goes, Pensiero, to stop, arms crossed, in front of his desk. He had resumed his diatribe, offering the public to be buried this revolutionary anthem that served as a rallying to the Republicans, provided that it was dedicated to another risorgimento, that of culture. A standing room and a tears chorus. “It was a magical moment in my career and in my life,” remembers muti, whose images, captured by Arte, went around the world.
Ten years have passed but Riccardo Muti, brunette hair barely stained with white, did not lose anything of his legendary authority. He took advantage of these long month of confinement to tackle the work he had previously avoided to compete: the Missa Solemnis, Beethoven, this “Grail of Sacred Music”, which he Held in August at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
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