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Riccardo Muti onstage with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on September 28, 2007, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome
© Todd Rosenberg Photography
One of today’s leading interpreters of the music of Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Italian opera favorites on this composite program. Opening with selections from his 2007 residency—his first concerts with the Orchestra in over thirty years—Muti leads the Overture to La forza del destino along with soprano Barbara Frittoli in arias by Verdi and Puccini. Two Rossini overtures, William Tell and La scala di sieta, follow, along with the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Verdi’s Nabucco, featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Rounding out the program are releases from the CSO Resound label, including Mascagni’s Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana plus Verdi’s Overture to I vespri siciliani and the first act of Otello.
Verdi Overture to La forza del destino
Verdi Tacea la notte placida . . . Di tale amor from Il trovatore
Riccardo Muti conductor
Barbara Frittoli soprano
September 2007
Verdi Overture to I vespri siciliani
Riccardo Muti conductor
June 2017 (CSO Resound)
Verdi Ballet Music from Macbeth
Riccardo Muti conductor
September 2013
Puccini Vissi d’arte from Tosca
Riccardo Muti conductor
Barbara Frittoli soprano
September 2007
Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Riccardo Muti conductor
June 2017 (CSO Resound)
Verdi Va, pensiero from Nabucco
Riccardo Muti conductor
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe director
June 2017
Rossini Overture to William Tell
Riccardo Muti conductor
September 2017
Rossini Overture to La scala di seta
Riccardo Muti conductor
March 2017
Verdi Act 1 from Otello
Riccardo Muti conductor
Krassimira Stoyanova soprano
Aleksandrs Antonenko tenor
Carlo Guelfi baritone
Juan Francisco Gatell tenor
Michael Spyres tenor
Paolo Battaglia bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe director
April 2011 (CSO Resound)
From the CSO’s Archives: Maestro’s Choice—featuring radio broadcasts from the Rosenthal Archives as well as recordings from the CSO’s vast discography, including many releases on CSO Resound—is a cultural and community partnership between the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and WFMT, Chicago’s Classical Music Station.
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