In the twilight of his music directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Riccardo Muti candidly outlined his legacy and implored musicians to remember his instruction on Giuseppe Verdi’s operas: use the 19th century scores without altered notes
CHICAGO — In the twilight of his music directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Riccardo Muti candidly outlined his legacy and implored musicians to remember his instruction on Giuseppe Verdi’s operas: use the 19th-century scores without altered notes.
He urged them to reject modern directorial concepts seeking relevance.
“In 20 to 30 years, when everything will collapse, you will say maybe Muti was right,”
the 80-year-old Italian conductor told the orchestra before Wednesday’s rehearsal.
Muti is leading three concert performances of “Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)”
at Orchestra Hall through Tuesday, the culmination of a Verdi project that included the Requiem, “Otello,” “Macbeth,” “Falstaff” and “Aida.”
“The problem today is that these operas are in the hands many times of stage directors who
with some exceptions, are destroying the opera,” he said during an interview with The Associated Press after Wednesday’s rehearsal