Muti in his element in Italian opera excerpts

Par Sam Jacobson, 28 juin 2017

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“Muti gave a nuanced shape to each phrase to create a keen sense of operatic narrative”

Critique faite à Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago, le 23 juin 2017

Verdi, Nabucco: Overture

Verdi, Nabucco: Gli arredi festivi

Verdi, Nabucco: Va Pensiero, chorus of the Hebrew slaves

Verdi, Il trovatore: Anvil Chorus

Verdi, Macbeth: Patria oppressa

Verdi, Les Vêpres siciliennes (I vespri siciliani): ouverture

Puccini, Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo

Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo

Boito, Mefistofele: Prologue

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti, Direction

Riccardo Zanellato, Basse

Chicago Symphony Chorus

Duain Wolfe, Chef de chœur

Chicago Children's Choir, Chef de chœur

Riccardo Muti et Chicago, un couple légendaire à la Philharmonie

Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, 13th January

Dans un programme « italien » qui associait la création française d'une œuvre de Glass à des partitions de Mendelssohn et Strauss, le chef et l'orchestre ont montré leur singularité.

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Chicago et Muti à la Philharmonie : puissance et robustesse !

Augustin Javel, 17th January

Le Chicago Symphony Orchestra et Riccardo Muti ont montré tout leur savoir-faire dans une soirée Wagner-Hindemith-Dvořák éclatante – quoique parfois clinquante.

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Un triomphe pour Muti à Pleyel

Constance Clara Guibert, 26th October

Des bravos fusaient déjà à l’entrée de Muti sur scène. Plongés dans un Oiseau de feu légendaire, fascinant, évident, puis littéralement soulevés par un bis patriotique chargé de sens et d'énergie, les spectateurs de Pleyel ne se remettront pas aisément de la venue du maestro.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra music on death: whimper then bang

Graham Meyer, 9th April

Jakub Hrůša leads the CSO in pedestrian Janáček and Rachmaninov, but Strauss's Four Last Songs and Wagner's Tristan excerpts send audiences home deeply touched.

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Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening

Graham Meyer, 19th February

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Music Director Designate juxtaposes his Finnish countryman's music on their shared national epic, the Kalevala, with the heroic life limned in the tone poem of Richard Strauss.

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Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago

Graham Meyer, 4th December

A strong world premiere of Aucoin's evocative and immediate Song of the Reappeared, a concerto for voice written for soprano Julia Bullock which sets vivid imagery by a poet who suffered under authoritarianism.

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Sam Jacobson

Sam Jacobson has been writing for Bachtrack since 2015 and is currently in Pittsburgh, having previously lived throughout the Midwest. A keen traveler, he endeavors to see all the great orchestras and opera houses across the US and abroad. Outside of music, he works as a software engineer. He also maintains a blog which can be read here.

Muti in his element: Italian opera with the Chicago Symphony and Chorus