For the Last Time? Riccardo Muti Conducts Verdi's Requiem at the Salzburg Festival
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In Salzburg, Riccardo Muti directs Verdi's Requiem with Wiener Philharmoniker, chorus and soloists in an intense and collected reading. The "Irae Dies" becomes meditation on death, while the "Free Me" turns into an invocation for the victims of all wars.
After his concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, he was awarded the "Ring des Landes Salzburg" ("Ring of the State of Salzburg").
Such soloists were rarely available to him: Riccardo Muti conducts the Verdi Requiem at the Salzburg Festival. A singular performance. Supposedly, it is his farewell to the play.
Powerful and moving: Verdi's Messa da Requiem under Riccardo Muti with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Staatsoperchor and a shiny solo quartet, from which tenor Michael Spyres and a famous soprano stood out.
For more than half a century, Riccardo Muti has been one of the defining personalities of the Salzburg Festival. The Italian star conductor has now been honoured with the country's highest distinction for his extraordinary achievements in Salzburg. Headwoman Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) presented the ring of Salzburg to the 85-year-old. SALZBURG. More than 270 opera and concert performances in 54 festival summers: hardly any conductor is so close w…
Star conductor Riccardo Muti was honoured with one of the highest awards of the state of Salzburg for his decades of loyalty to the Festival on Saturday by headwoman Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP).
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