A Requiem for the Country?
Michael Steinberg on Riccardo Muti, fascism, and who speaks through the collective voice of the Verdi Requiem.
Riccardo Muti
64 pieces since 2006 — at 9 companies, most often at Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
64
pieces
9
companies
21
years
3 pieces as Philadelphia Orchestra — stats above show all coverage for Riccardo Muti.
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The future’s so bright
For this, the 250th edition of Trove Thursday, [hold for applause] a broadcast of a memorable evening at Carnegie Hall—and I was there: Smetana’s stirring Libuse, the Czech national opera, with a transcendent Gabriela Benackova as its titular prophetess.
“Tosca,” starring the Philadelphia Orchestra
Though orchestrally lavish, this “semi-staging” delivers less theater than no staging at all.