Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masterworks

[[Description]]“No living conductor knows more about these scores and their historical context, has a closer regard for textual fidelity or a more practiced understanding of how to bring them to dramatic life on stage than Muti.” — Chicago TribuneOvertures, choruses and intermezzos drawn from masterworks by Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni and Boito, brilliantly performed by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Muti has presented these works numerous times over his career, including countless performances during his tenure as music director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The performances heard on this album were presented as Maestro's final concerts of the 2016–17 season. This album presents a virtuosic showcase of nineteenth-century Italian music in all its passion, joy and heartbreak.[[Contents]]Verdi Nabucco, OvertureJune 2017, Orchestra Hall, ChicagoVerdi Nabucco, “Gli arredi festivi”Chicago Symphony ChorusDuain Wolfe directorJune 2017, Orchestra Hall, ChicagoVe