Riccardo Muti

Known for ActingBorn 1941-07-28 (age 84)Naples, Campania, Italy

Riccardo Muti (born 28 July 1941) is an Italian conductor. He is current music director of the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. Muti has previously held posts at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was named Music Director Emeritus in Chicago in 2023. A prolific recording artist, Muti has received numerous honours and awards, including two Grammy Awards. He is especially associated with the music of Giuseppe Verdi. Among the world's leading conductors, in a 2015 Bachtrack poll he was ranked by music critics as the world's fifth best living conductor. Muti was born in Naples but he spent his early childhood in Molfetta, near Bari, in the long region of Apulia on Italy's southern Adriatic coast. His father, Domenico, was a pathologist in Molfetta, as well as an amateur singer and great music lover; his mother, Gilda, was a reserved and severe Neapolitan woman with five children. Muti graduated from Liceo classico (Classical Lyceum) Vittorio Emanuele II in Naples, then studied piano at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella under Vincenzo Vitale; here Muti was awarded a diploma cum laude. He was subsequently awarded a diploma in Composition and Conducting by the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, Milan, where he studied with the composer Bruno Bettinelli and the conductor Antonino Votto. He has also studied composition with Nino Rota, whom he considers a mentor. He was unanimously awarded first place by the jury of the "Guido Cantelli Competition for Conductors" in Milan in 1967 and became, the next year, principal conductor and music director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, a post he held for eleven years. Since 1971 he has been a frequent conductor of operas and concerts at the Salzburg Festival, where he is particularly known for his Mozart opera performances. From 1972 Muti regularly conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and in 1973 he was appointed its principal conductor, succeeding Otto Klemperer. In 1979, Muti became the music director and principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1986, he became principal conductor of the Filarmonica della Scala, Milan, with which in 1988 he received the Viotti d'Oro and toured Europe. In 1989 he conducted a live performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni that was recorded on a DVD. In 1991, after twelve years as music director, he announced his resignation from the Philadelphia Orchestra, effective at the end of the 1991–1992 season. In 1995 he was the president of the jury of the International Composing Competition "2 Agosto". Muti has been a regular guest of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic. In 1996, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic during Vienna Festival Week and on tour to Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Germany; he most recently toured with the Vienna Philharmonic to Japan in 2008. Muti has also led the orchestra's Vienna New Year's Concert on seven occasions to date: in 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2018, 2021 and 2025. ... Source: Article "Riccardo Muti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.Read more

Movies & web series

Don Giovanni

Iphigénie en Aulide

Attila

Nabucco

Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures

Beethoven: Symphony 9 by Riccardo Muti

Neujahrskonzert 2004

Europa Riconosciuta

Conducting Mahler

Otello

Don Carlo

I vespri Siciliani

Pergolesi: The Brother in Love (La Scala)

Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala

La Donna del Lago

Cosi Fan Tutte

Don Giovanni

Verdi Ernani

Le Grand Échiquier

Don Pasquale - Teatro alla Scala

Guglielmo Tell

The Magic Flute

Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota

Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert

Great Performances

New Year's Concert 2021

Macbeth (Teatro Regio di Torino, 2026)

New Year's Concert 2025

Concerto per Agrigento - Capitale italiana della Cultura 2025

Concert in honor of and in the presence of Pope Leo XIV

I Wiener Philharmoniker e Riccardo Muti: una lunga amicizia in musica

Resurrection

Verdi-Requiem mit Riccardo Muti

New Year's Concert 2018

Aida - Verdi - Salzburg Festival

Carlos Kleiber: I am Lost to the World

Nabucco

Europakonzert 2009 from Naples

Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte

Verdi: Otello

Don Pasquale

Mozart: Symphonies 40 & 41

Dialogues des Carmelites

Porpora • Mozart • Haydn

Falstaff (La Scala)

Le Nozze di Figaro

Il Trovatore - Teatro alla Scala