With gala of “Falstaff” students held at Riccardo Muti – Terra.com

(Semblanza) Mexico, July 27 (Notimex) .- Accompanied by Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, students of the Academy of Italian opera Ricardo Muti held tonight in advance the famed conductor, during a gala at the Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna. This is the final concert of the Academy, after 10 days Lectures, in which a dual challenge Muti, on the one hand, to reconsider the complex, sarcastic and painful work performed Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) in “Falstaff”, his last work. On the other hand, grow a group of young people (directors, singers and repetiteurs or vocal coaches) who aspires to become head of Italian opera, preserving the tradition and culture of that country. According to information from the Italian broadcaster RAI, include four students aged between 25 and 30 years (Ovodok Vladimir of Belarus; Milletari Vicenzo, Tarantino, Yang Su-Han, Taiwan, and Erina Yashima, German), selected from 300 Students, all of a very high level. Riccardo Mutti was born in Naples on 28 July 1941. His biographers report that studied at the Conservatory San Pietro a Maiella, his hometown, where he discovered his aptitude for orchestral conducting, and philosophy at the University of Naples. After studying piano with Vincenzo Vitale he moved to Milan, in whose conservatory he studied composition and conducting with Bettinello Antonio Votto. “Biografiasyvidas.com” places the takeoff of his career in 1967 when he was awarded the International Guido Cantelli Competition for conductors and participates in the festival Maggio Musicale in Florence with Sviatoslav Richter as piano soloist. His debut is in Britain as the successor of Otto Klemperer in front of the New Philharmonia Orchestra (later called just Philharmonia), with whom he maintained a fruitful relationship as chief conductor since 1973 and later as musical director. In 1969 he was appointed principal conductor of the Maggio Musicale in Florence and 1972 directed the first complete version of Rossini’s William Tell, and operas like “I masnadieri” and “Attila” by Verdi. A year earlier he had his debut at the Salzburg Festival, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. From there it becomes the baton of famous international deals and protagonists of the great opera house in Vienna, Munich, Paris and London. From 1986 to 2005 he was musical director of La Scala in Milan. He is regarded as one of the great masters of the Italian lyric repertory, with successful forays into Mozart and Brahms and Schumann. Following his departure from La Scala in 2006, the Mozart Director was tasked to direct the opera “The Magic Flute” at the Salzburg Festival, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Mozart, whose version, outlined, has come to be regarded among the benchmark in recent years. According to a biography of a famous collaborative encyclopedia, from 2007 to 2011 he was musical director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, which focused on the recovery of Neapolitan opera composers of the eighteenth century. Later, in collaboration with the Ravenna Festival and the Teatro Real in Madrid, he has continued this work, mainly with the works of Saverio Mercadante, conducting the Orchestra Goivanile Luigi Cherubini, founded by him in 2004. In 2010 debuted late in the Metropolitan Opera in New York with “Attila” by Verdi, and took charge of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, of which he is currently director. Among the awards he has received the Wolf Prize in Arts in Jerusalem, the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1990, the French Legion of Honor in 2010, the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 2011, counted and is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music. NTX / MCV