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The Italian maestro returned to his home country on Friday, January 26, with the orchestra he has led since his appointment as music director in 2010. Torino is the first of three tour stops in Italy, where Muti and the Orchestra performed an Italian-inspired program of music by Philip Glass, Felix Mendelssohn and Richard Strauss at Lingotto Musica’s Auditorium Giovanni Agnellian.
CSO viola Wei-Ting Kuo and his son Lucas head toward the airport, where a charter flight bound for Torino awaits them. A native of Taiwan, Kuo came to the United States at the age of 24, after serving in the army in Taiwan.
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John Sharp, CSO principal cello, boards the airplane with his instrument in tow. Perhaps the cello will have to settle for the middle seat.
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Patrons enter Lingotto Musica’s Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli following their performance of an Italian-inspired program on Friday, January 26 in Torino. Designed by Renzo Piano, the hall was built in a space that previously housed a FIAT assembly line.
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Surrounded by tour trunks, CSO principal flute Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson finds a corner in the backstage area to warm up his instrument in preparation for the concert. A native of Iceland, Höskuldsson served as principal flute of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra until his appointment to the CSO in 2015.
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Maestro Riccardo Muti, CSO music director emeritus for life, leads the CSO in Philip Glass’ The Triumph of the Octagon at Lingotto Musica’s Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli on Friday, January 26. Muti first met Glass after leading the CSO in the composer’s Symphony No. 11 in Chicago in February 2022. During that meeting, Muti asked Glass to compose a piece for him and the CSO, which resulted in the piece performed on the Torino program.
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At the back of the stage, CSO principal tuba Gene Pokorny counts rests as the remainder of the brass section performs in Richard Strauss’ Aus Italien. After performing this work in the United States and six other European countries, the CSO has finally brought this piece to the country that inspired its composer.
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The CSO woodwind section performs on Friday evening in Torino, Italy. The Orchestra has finally reached the seventh—and final—country of the Europe 2024 Tour.
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Guest harp Julia Coronelli performs Puccini’s Intermezzo to Act 3 from Manon Lescaut, the encore for the evening. Coronelli is principal harp of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, whose music director is Ken-David Masur, who also is principal conductor of the CSO’s training ensemble, Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
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The CSO and Maestro Riccardo Muti acknowledge the audience’s applause at Lingotto Musica’s Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli following their performance of an Italian-inspired program on Friday, January 26.
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Maestro Riccardo Muti and the CSO exit the stage following their 12th performance of the Europe 2024 Tour.
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Maestro Riccardo Muti presents the Theodore Thomas Medallion for Distinguished Service to former CSO principal librarian Peter Conover, who retired from the CSO last June. Since his retirement, Conover and his wife relocated from Chicago to Italy.
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Following the Torino concert, CSO stage technicians Blair Carlson and Ryan Hartge pack instruments into trunks. Only two more cities after Torino—Milan and Rome.
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