Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Italian conductor Riccardo Muti has author and has came out with a book about compatriot Giuseppe Verdi and according to the Italian maestro the play write didn't get enough credit.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra issued this statement on Monday.
"CHICAGO- Yesterday in Milan, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti and Rizzoli Publishing presented Maestro Muti's new book, Verdi, l'Italiano, at a public launch event marking the conclusion of Milan's literary festival, Book City. The book has been released and is available throughout Europe. Published to coincide with the upcoming bicentennial of the great Italian composer's birth in 2013, Verdi, l'Italiano describes the most important composer in Italy's heritage by the greatest interpreter of his works today, Riccardo Muti.
While likened to Italy's musical culture in the same way that Dante is to literature and Michelangelo is to art, Verdi seems to have been overlooked, explains Muti, particularly in his native country. In the book, Muti leads readers on a journey to discover, understand and love Giuseppe Verdi and his music through examples of arias from Rigoletto to Il Trovatore and through his characters from Aida to Otello. He teaches the reader how to listen to and appreciate music by guiding them through the twists and turns of Verdi's life, unveiling a historical background which reveals much about Italy and the Italian people.
Maestro Muti's autobiography, Prima la musica, poi le parole (First the Music, Then the Words-Rizzoli 2010), was a bestseller, with more than 40,000 copies sold. His debut recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of Verdi's Messa da Requiem (CSO Resound 2010) garnered two Grammy awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which were Maestro Muti's first two Grammys. He has conducted music and operas by Verdi with the important orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic, and at the renowned opera houses of the world. Maestro Muti's upcoming performances of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at the Roma Opera begin November."
Muti who hails from Naples, Italy has been honored by the Royal Academy of Music in 1981 and was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 2000. Other awards include a Birgit Nilsson Prize in 2011 and Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in the same year. These are few of the notable awards the CSO conductor has won.
Verdi's La Forza del destino- Riccardo Muti & Wiener Philharmoniker
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