By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 8, 2013 RAVENNA — Sacred music has lent gravitas to Riccardo Muti’s career since the 1960s. Settings of the Ordinary and the burial service by Bach, Mozart, Cherubini, Schubert, Berlioz, Brahms and Verdi have drawn his attention and received, more often than not, a disciplined performance. No, this is not [...]
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By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 11, 2012 MUNICH — Arts groups here present a compromised 2012–13 season, facing pros and cons not always aligned with those in America. Funding holds steady. City and state (Bavaria) play their part, and local powerhouses — Siemens, BMW, Audi, Allianz, and Linde among them — step up habitually to [...]
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by Keith Clarke As music awards go, you can’t get much more glitzy than the $1m Birgit Nilsson Prize that Riccardo Muti has just picked up. Well, he doesn’t actually pick it up until October, at a ceremony in the Stockholm Royal Opera in the presence of H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf and H.M. Queen [...]
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