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	Riccardo Muti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Riccardo Muti (born July 28, 1941, in Naples) is an Italian conductor best known for being the music director of Milan's La Scala opera house, a position he held from 1986 to 2005.
		In 1987 Muti was appointed principal conductor of the Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, with which in 1988 he received the Viotti d'Oro and with which he went on tour in Italy and in Europe.
		In 1996 Muti conducted the latter at the closing of the Viennese Festival Week, in a tour in the Far East (Japan, Korea, Hong Kong) and in Germany as well as at the Vienna New Year's Concert in 1993, 1997, 2000 and 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riccardo_Muti (416 words)

	EMI Classics \| Biographies \| RICCARDO MUTI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Riccardo Muti was born in Naples in 1941 and it was here that he later went on to study the piano and gain the top grade at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella as well as completing his philosophy studies at the university.
		In 1998 Riccardo Muti conducted the festive concert of the 500th anniversary of the Viennese Hofmusikkapelle in the Großen Musikvereinssaal.
		Muti is annual guest conductor of the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester of Munich, the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre Nationale de France.
	www.emiclassics.com /artists/biogs/rmub.html (1131 words)

	CMT.com : Riccardo Muti : Biography
		Muti undertook formal musical studies at the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella in Naples, where he earned a diploma in piano; among his teachers there was Nino Rota, the well-known composer of film and concert music.
		Muti's education continued with studies in composition and conduction at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan and a conducting seminar with Franco Ferrara in Venice.
		Muti first came to widespread public attention as the winner of the prestigious Guido Cantelli Conducting Prize in 1967; soon after, he made his offical debut, conducting the Italian Radio and Television Orchestra.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/muti_riccardo/bio.jhtml (414 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Maestro Riccardo Muti in New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Maestro Riccardo Muti let the music do the talking at his Thursday night performance with the New York Philharmonic, his first gig since resigning April 2 from La Scala, the Milan opera house where Giuseppe Verdi started his career and Arturo Toscanini became a legend.
		Muti, his hair flowing and matching his jet fl tails, was a picture of elegance while he conducted.
		Muti's appearance at The New York Philharmonic is his first in New York since resigning as musical director of the Milan opera house La Scala.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/04/15/maestro_riccardo_muti_in_new_york (722 words)

	Greg Sandow -- Riccardo Muti and the New York Philharmonic
		Muti's (a classical-music professional, who agreed to be quoted if I didn't use her name) brought all the strands together, at least to my satisfaction.
		Muti and the Philharmonic move, both parties are as powerful as sovereign states.
		Muti's astounding force -- he can do with an orchestra more or less what Michael Jordan used to do with a basketball -- might have been a little abstract, creating an orchestral surge that sometimes overwhelmed the music it ought to serve.
	www.gregsandow.com /muti.htm (1237 words)

	Profile: Riccardo Muti
		Riccardo Muti was born in Naples where he studied piano at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella Conservatory under Vincenzo Vitale, graduating with distinction.
		Already in 1971, however, Muti was invited by Herbert von Karajan to conduct at the Salzburg Festival, the first of many occasions, which led Muti to celebrate thirty years of splendid artistic collaboration with this glorious Austrian Festival in 2001.
		Muti has been made a "Cavaliere di Gran Croce" (Knight of the Great Cross) of the Italian Republic, he received the City of Milan's "Gran Medaglia d'Oro" and the "Verdienstkreuz" from the German Republic.
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /meettheorchestra/players/riccardomuti (836 words)

	Riccardo Muti to perform in Malta
		In 1987 Riccardo Muti was nominated Principal Director of the Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, with which in 1988 he received the Viotti d'Oro and with which he went on tour in Italy and in Europe.
		In July 1992 Riccardo Muti conducted Verdi's La Traviata and the Requiem Mass in a prestigious tour by the Teatro alla Scala in Seville, Madrid and Barcelona, marking the event of Expo '92.
		Riccardo Muti is an honorable member of the Royal Academy of Music, the Academy of Santa Cecilia, and the Luigi Cherubini Academy in Florence.
	www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=182427&pid=1 (1312 words)

	classical music - andante - riccardo muti resigns as music director of la scala
		Muti made no mention of his plans, but his wife, Cristina Mazzavillani, said in an interview published earlier in the week that he might go abroad or to another Italian city.
		Among possible successors at La Scala are Riccardo Chailly, who retired as music director of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw last summer and becomes general music director at the Leipzig Opera and Gewandhaus Orchestra in September, and Daniele Gatti, music director of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and the Royal Philharmonic in London.
		Riccardo Muti and his band bid farewell to their home theater (soon to be renovated) with a rather odd holiday concert.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25363 (923 words)

	CTV.ca - La Scala maestro Riccardo Muti steps down- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Muti denounced what he said was the vulgar hostility of the theatre's employees.
		Meli said Muti's decision was "the inevitable response — and perhaps the one that was sought — to the attack he suffered." He described the resignation as a "very grave loss" for the theatre.
		Muti made no mention of his plans, but his wife, Cristina Mazzavillani, said in an interview published earlier in the week that her husband might go abroad or to another Italian city.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1112465432747_76?hub=Entertainment&subhub=PrintStory (450 words)

	NPR's SymphonyCast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Muti has been a regular guest conductor of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, and for the past five years he's also been music director of La Scala in Milan.
		But Muti says the era of conductors who devoted their careers to a single orchestra is gone.
		MUTI: If you don't make this marriage between the orchestras and the public a real one, and the public doesn't realize how important is music, and the government doesn't realize how important for the public is to receive music, in future, if things don't change, these orchestras will become something really for the museums.
	www.npr.org /programs/symphonycast/archives/011202.me_trans.html (902 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Operatic Battle at La Scala Calls for Muti's Head
		Workers have long criticised Muti for running La Scala as his private fiefdom but temperatures have flared further since Muti got his way in a battle with former administrator Carlo Fontana, who was sacked three weeks ago.
		Muti is revered as one of the greatest musicians in Italy, whose rich heritage of composers like Monteverdi, Bellini and Puccini is steadily dissolving into syrupy ballad festivals.
		Muti has often stormed out of performances abroad, last year abandoning a London production of Verdi's "La Forza del Destino" because Covent Garden had replaced brick walls used on the La Scala set with painted cloth panels.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-3-16/27125.html (617 words)

	Decca Music Group - Riccardo Muti
		A son of Naples, Riccardo Muti is presently the Music Director of La Scala, Milan.
		Muti was student in Milan and studied conducting there with Anotino Votto, one of the great Italian maestri of Toscanini's generation.
		Riccardo Muti has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the Vienna Phiulharmonic with whom he has recorded often.
	www.deccaclassics.com /artists/muti/biog.html (188 words)

	The Philadelphia Orchestra - News
		Riccardo Muti has been associated with The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1972 when, as principal conductor and music director of the Maggio Musicale in Florence, he made his debut.
		The Riccardo Muti Benefit Concert Committee is chaired by Lorraine and Ben Alexander and Elizabeth and Charles Bowden.
		Riccardo Muti, Barbara Frittoli, and the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra are graciously donating their services for this evening's concert.
	www.philorch.org /styles/poa02e/www/news_20041203b.html (1224 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / La Scala music chief Riccardo Muti resigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Riccardo Muti, citing continued hostility by La Scala employees, stepped down Saturday as musical director of the opera house, ending a 19-year tenure and pitching the institution into more turmoil.
		Muti was offered the chance to succeed Kurt Masur after the 2001-02 season, but turned it down, citing his commitment to La Scala.
		Muti agreed last June to conduct four weeks per season with the Philharmonic from the 2006-07 season through 2008-09.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/04/02/maestro_of_italys_la_scala_opera_resigns?mode=PF (638 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Riccardo Muti Resigns as La Scala Music Director
		MILAN - Riccardo Muti has resigned as the musical director of Milan's La Scala after his 19-year reign at the opera house dissolved into a bitter battle for power, mutiny in the musical ranks and cancelled performances.
		Muti, hailed as one of the world's great conductors but criticized for running La Scala as his own private fiefdom and holding back innovation, said on Saturday he had no choice but to resign.
		Hundreds of workers from clarinet players to costume designers criticized his excessive power and turned against him, striking on the first night of every production, refusing to rehearse with him and forcing two operas to be cancelled.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-4-2/27519.html (280 words)

	New York Philharmonic: Riccardo Muti
		Born in Naples, Riccardo Muti graduated in pianoforte with Vincenzo Vitale at the San Pietro Conservatory in Majella; he also graduated with honors in composition and conducting with Bruno Bettinelli and Antonino Votto at the Conservatory in Milan.
		Muti has conducted the Orchestra and the Associazione del Coro Filarmonico della Scala in concerts organized by the Ravenna Festival in cities that have been adversely affected by recent history, including Sarajevo in 1997, Beirut in 1998, Jerusalem in 1999, Erevan and Istanbul in 2001, and New York City in 2002.
		Muti has made numerous recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, and Orchestra and Associazione del Coro Filarmonico della Scala for the EMI, Sony Classics, and Philips Classics labels.
	www.newyorkphilharmonic.org /attend/guests/index.cfm?page=profile&personNum=473&seasonNum=3&selectedNav=guestConductors (434 words)

	Muti's Bounty - Music from the great Italian conductor. By Liam O'Rourke
		Riccardo Muti, born in Naples in 1941, is undoubtedly one of the greatest conductors of the past 30-odd years.
		This music is different; Muti clearly understands it as well as he understands Verdi, and he protects its integrity in the same way.
		Muti the purist would not allow the tenor to embellish the aria because, he argued, that is not how Verdi originally wrote it (Verdi wrote a "G").
	www.slate.com /id/2117660 (1224 words)

	ABC News: La Scala Music Chief Riccardo Muti Resigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Conductor Riccardo Muti is shown in this July 15, 1999 photo.
		Riccardo Muti, the embattled musical director of La Scala, resigned on Saturday, April 2, 2005, the Milan opera house said.
		ROME Apr 2, 2005 —; Riccardo Muti, citing continued hostility by La Scala employees, stepped down Saturday as musical director of the opera house, ending a 19-year tenure and pitching the institution into more turmoil.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=636560&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (361 words)

	WJLA - La Scala Music Chief Riccardo Muti Resigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Meli said Muti's decision was "the inevitable response - and perhaps the one that was sought - to the attack he suffered." He described the resignation as a "very grave loss."
		Muti, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1980 to 1992, becomes a candidate to take over as music director of the New York Philharmonic when Lorin Maazel retires after the 2008-09 season.
		Among possible successors at La Scala are Riccardo Chailly, who retired as music director of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw last summer and becomes general music director at the Leipzig Opera and Gewandhaus Orchestra in September, and Daniele Gatti, music director of the Teatro Communale in Bologna and the Royal Philharmonic in London.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/0405/217935.html (682 words)

	Italy Rules
		Riccardo Muti complained about the acoustics at the Academy when he became music director in 1980, and agitated for a new hall.
		But Muti’s name was never mentioned on Monday — not even as one of the 12 guest conductors announced for next season, although according to spokesperson Judith Kurnick, management has been trying to lure Muti back, knowing that he would draw capacity crowds.
		A record store has a huge photo of Muti on its wall, equal in size to a picture of Giuseppe Verdi, the revered Italian composer and patriot whose death a hundred years ago was observed last week.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/020101/mus.muti.shtml (836 words)

	Muti, Riccardo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Riccardo Muti en janvier à Paris Des talents aussi divers que Riccardo Muti (photo) et Talvin Singh, Kurt Masur et Lili Bi.
		Riccardo Muti conduit l'orchestre philharmonique de Vienne au Vatican en 2000 La France n'a jamais réussi à retenir l'Ital.
		Ricardo Muti Le maestro italien Riccardo Muti dirige le 1er janvier 2004, pour la quatrième fois, le concert du Nouvel An.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Muti-R1ic.asp (626 words)

	Opera News Online
		It said that Muti "failed to go for the goal when he was in scoring position." Its story referred to the fact that Muti didn’t allow his tenor to sing the optional high C’s in "Di quella pira," in Il Trovatore, using words like blasfemo — blasphemy — to describe Muti’s action.
		Muti refers to the frequent criticism of him as an outsider.
		Muti kept his principal home in Italy, where he raised his family, and rented an apartment in Philadelphia.
	www.theoperacritic.com /Pages/Reviews/V2Muti.htm (1253 words)

	Riccardo Muti -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Italian conductor Riccardo Muti led top orchestras in Europe and the United States.
		Riccardo Muti was born on July 28, 1941, in Naples, Italy.
		Subsequent conductors have been Carl Pohlig (1907–12), Leopold Stokowski (1912–36), Eugene Ormandy (1936–80; director laureate until 1985), Riccardo Muti (1980–92), and Wolfgang Sawallisch (from 1993).
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312623?&query=riccardo (458 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Disgusted of Covent Garden berate the missing maestro
		The conductor, Riccardo Muti, music director of La Scala, sided with his director-designer Hugo de Ana in the scenery quarrel and bowed out.
		The statement, from Pappano, Mr Hall, and the director of opera, Elaine Padmore, went on: "Maestro Muti does not accept what we think are minor scenic changes which need to be made to the production for it to fit safely on the Covent Garden stage.
		Muti sided with his colleague and refused to come.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1311895,00.html (457 words)

	Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, and Brahms: Barbara Frittoli, Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti, Verizon Hall, 13 February ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was spellbinding – for the first time in years, I had the sensation that I was listening not to a singer but, in the very flesh, to Leonora in her passion, Violetta in her despair, and Tosca in her vehement protest against the injustice of life.
		The soprano’s rapport with the conductor, moreover, was so total that one could see at once why Muti so often chooses her as his soloist.
		Receiving a standing ovation from a packed house, Muti responded with a graceful speech proclaiming his affection for the orchestra and the city, and explaining his choice of music in terms of its values of freedom, peace, and human fulfilment.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2005/Jan-Jun05/muti1302.htm (441 words)

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