Riccardo Muti is retiring Verdi’s “Requiem” from his repertoire.

The famed conductor, who recently turned 85, conducted the work for the last time at the Salzburg Festival’s Großes Festspielhaus. The news was reported by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 

Muti led the Vienna Philharmonic in the piece on August 15 and 18 with a cast that included Iwona Sobotka, Marianne Crebassa, Michael Spyres, and
Maharram Huseynov.

For years Muti has conducted Requiem and has made several recordings including one on 1981 with Jessye Norman, Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras and Yevgeny Nesterenko and another in 2010 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featuring Barbara Frittoli, Olga Borodina, Mario Zeffiri, and Ildar Abdrazakov. There is another recording with Luciano Pavarotti, Dolora Zajick, Samuel Ramey, and Cheryl Studer.