Riccardo Muti

...still favoured by many prima donnas. Men need to pay more attention to the cut of their tails and keeping their hair in order (Riccardo Muti good, Simon Rattle bad). Any radical departure from the principle of the dark suit and white shirt is...

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...Haitink, been guiding the orchestra through a transitional period without a music director. Daniel Barenboim stepped down in 2006; Riccardo Muti takes over in the fall. Boulez's performances with Chicago were of interest for another reason...

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra wasn't scheduled to reveal its 2010-2011 season -- the first under its new music director, Riccardo Muti -- until late February. But Carnegie Hall's announcement Wednesday in New York of its new season forced the...

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...the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, will present four programs; the jazz pianist Brad Mehldau will be the composer in residence; Riccardo Muti gives his first New York concerts as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and the New...

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...for change at the Met. The company's first production of Verdi's "Attila" overflows with it, featuring the debuts of the conductor Riccardo Muti, the director Pierre Audi, the fashion designer Miuccia Prada, and the architects Jacques Herzog...

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...also be the composer with the closest relationship with Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director designate Riccardo Muti, having been Muti's composer-in-residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra for three years and speaking fluent Italian.

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...sing the role of Odabella in a new production of Verdi's "Attila," conducted by Chicago Symphony music director designate Riccardo Muti, next month at the Met. Berti, who has sung Cavaradossi at the Met and Vienna, has the heroic...

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...McCall stole more than 50 pieces. He bought a car; rented an apartment in the Academy House in Center City, where Julius Erving and Riccardo Muti were neighbors; and wore expensive clothes and jewelry. Eventually, his scheme was discovered.

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Nobody fits the description of aristocratic conductor better than Riccardo Muti. If all he had going for him was height, classic Italian features and fab hair, he'd probably still be a major global star. The Neapolitan Muti, of course, has...

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Riccardo Muti can play hard to get. Before Saturday afternoon, the Washington Performing Arts Society averred, the Italian conductor had not played in Washington for 18 years. And he has twice jilted the New York Philharmonic, the orchestra he...

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