Riccardo Muti

64 pieces since 2006 — at 9 companies, most often at Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

64 pieces
9 companies
21 years

3 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Riccardo Muti.

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What not to wear

The Met’s premiere production of Verdi’s Attila is terrible. Are you surprised? Attila is like a self-conscious stroll down Rodeo Drive – or even worse, to the Mall of America – reducing an opera about ruthless tyranny brought down by ruthless vengeance to a quaint and insipid fashion show.

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Dry cleaning

First things first: how are the clothes? Well, there’s enough leather to fill The Eagle ten times over, and there’s definitely fodder for intermission conversation: an adorable tweedy, puffy coat for Uldino; the pimped-out spiky bike helmet with the L.E.D. lights for Attila; all the L.E.D. lights in fact, like the ones that outline Ezio’s […]

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Hun more for the road

La Cieca has the first top-secret highly classified eyes-only report from inside the hermetically sealed Attila dress rehearsal at the Met.  Our spy  (possibly pictured above) speaks out —  after the jump, naturally. 

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