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Riccardo Muti Asks Italian Prime Minister to Reopen Theaters in Open Letter

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Riccardo Muti has written an open letter to Primer Minister Giuseppe Conte imploring him to reopen theaters. In a letter the maestro said, “While I understand your difficult responsibilities in this long and tragic period for our country, and with the urgent need to safeguard the health of our fellow citizens, I am impelled to make a heartfelt appeal. Closing {…}

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Riccardo Muti, Teresa Iervolino, & Vincent Wolfsteiner Highlight Teatro La Fenice’s 2020-21 Season

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The Teatro La Fenice has announced the first part of its 2020-21 season, which is set to run from Oct. 30 to Feb. 16, 2021. The new season begins with concert performances featuring Juraj Valčuha conducting the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice. The concert will include music by Claude Debussy and Modest Mussorgsky. Performance Dates: Oct. 30-21, 2020 Riccardo Muti {…}

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Rosa Feola, Riccardo Muti, Anna Prohaska Headline Ravenna Festival’s 2020 Season

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(Image Source: Ravenna Festival Official Website) The Ravenna Festival in Italy has announced its program for the 2020 festival. For the purposes of this article, we will be focused solely on vocal performances. The season kicks off with Riccardo Muti leading a concert starring Rosa Feola in music by Mozart. Performance Date: June 21, 2020 Soprano Pamela Lucciarini and Ensemble {…}

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Daniel Barenboim, Florian Boesch & Riccardo Muti Lead Musikverein Wien’s Reopening Concerts

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The Musikverein Wien has announced its June schedule which will open June 5 to an audience of 100. The series at the famed Austrian concert hall will open with Daniel Barenboim leading the Wiener Philharmoniker in music of Mozart and Beethoven. Barenboim will also perform in two recitals of Beethoven sonatas. Riccardo Muti will conduct the Wiener Philharmoniker in a {…}

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Riccardo Muti, Rosa Feola to Headline Re-Imagined Ravenna Festival in 2020

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(Credit: © Todd Rosenberg Photography 2012) The Ravenna Festival is set to bring live concerts back to Italy for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival, which takes places in Ravenna, Italy, will offer a re-imagined program, featuring up to 40 events between June 21 and July 30 starting with an open air concert led {…}

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Riccardo Muti, Francesco Meli & Luca Salsi Headline Teatro dell’Opera di Roma’s Verdi Streams

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(Credit: Silvia Lelli) The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has teamed RMMUSIC (riccardomutimusic.com) to showcase three Verdi operas. The works, which are all conducted by Riccardo Muti, will be available to stream for two months on the company’s Youtube page and Riccardo Muti’s official website. Here is a look. The presentation will be “Simon Boccanegra“ from the 2012-13 season. The production {…}

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Riccardo Muti, Anita Rachvelishvili & Francesco Meli Highlight Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-21 Season

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2020-21 season with Riccardo Muti leading a number of important and rare works and international soloists. For this article we will highlight the vocal performances. A highlight of the year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth will be Riccardo Muti conducting the composer’s Missa solemnis. The maestro will conduct the Chicago {…}

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Diana Damrau & Riccardo Muti Highlight Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks’s 2019-20 Season

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The Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks has announced its 2019-20 season. For this announcement we have only concentrated on the vocal performances in Munich and the Bavarian area. Daniel Harding conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Muller and mezzo soprano Okka Von der Damerau. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-28, 2019 Mariss Jansons and Diana Damrau perform a program of {…}