Muti, Riccardo

Muti, Riccardo

▪ Italian conductor
born July 28, 1941, Naples, Italy

      Italian conductor of both opera and the symphonic repertory. He became one of the most respected and charismatic conductors of his generation.

      As a child, Muti studied piano at the conservatory of Naples; later he spent five years at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan studying composition and conducting. Following a successful debut with the Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1968, he appeared as a conductor with leading orchestras in Europe and the United States. He served as principal conductor of the Florence Maggio Musicale from 1969 to 1980, and he succeeded Otto Klemperer (Klemperer, Otto) as principal conductor of the New Philharmonia (after 1977, Philharmonia Orchestra) of London in 1973. He remained principal conductor until 1979 and was music director from 1979 to 1982. In 1977 he became the principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and served as its music director from 1980 to 1992. Muti became music director of La Scala in Milan in 1986; he left the position in April 2005, following widely reported disputes between the administration he led and the theatre's artistic unions. After leaving La Scala, Muti maintained a steady guest-conducting schedule with several of the world's leading orchestras, and in 2008 he accepted a position as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, effective in 2010.

      Muti led the first modern uncut performance of Gioachino Rossini (Rossini, Gioachino)'s William Tell in Florence in 1972, and he championed lesser-known works by Verdi (Verdi, Giuseppe) as well as operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Meyerbeer, Giacomo) and Gaspare Spontini (Spontini, Gaspare). He is respected as a conductor of a wide range of orchestral and choral works, including large-scale symphonic works from the 20th century.

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