WHEN the composer/conductor Pierre Boulez suggested blowing up opera houses as an “expensive” but “elegant” solution to the ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has unveiled its 2025-2026 season lineup. Highlights include four concert sets by Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä. With a diverse array of concerts and events ...

The opening concert of the Ravenna Festival 2025, scheduled for May 31 at the Palazzo Mauro De André with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti, will feature a young ...

that next season will mark just the halfway point between his tenure and Riccardo Muti’s. Read more here.

Recent performances at Carnegie Hall, under the Neapolitan-born conductor’s baton, revealed the lasting power and precision of the storied ensemble via programs that included the work of Mozart ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Riccardo Muti, in what felt like a victory lap, returned to Carnegie Hall to lead the Philharmonic’s annual three-day series ...

The last was yesterday afternoon. On the podium, for all three concerts, was Riccardo Muti, the Italian maestro. He has conducted the Vienna Phil for, I believe, fifty-five straight seasons. Is that a ...

Riccardo Muti conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in music of Catalani, Stravinsky and Schubert Saturday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Greatness can be a burden, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 ...

Batallán also makes his CSO solo debut this season, playing trumpet concertos by Telemann and Michael Haydn with music director emeritus Riccardo Muti (June 12-14). In Batallán’s absence ...

In Saturday’s concert by the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti (their second program of three at Carnegie Hall), the strings, especially the first violins, were so vivid and intense that the winds ...

Returning to Carnegie Hall for the first in their annual series of three consecutive programs, the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Riccardo Muti, a frequent collaborator since 1971, delivered ...

This season’s Vienna weekend opened Friday night, with Riccardo Muti on the podium, This first concert of three had two familiar repertoire works that were part of the orchestra’s history: Schubert’s ...