Riccardo Muti

Biography

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…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Great Performances (1971) — Self
2. Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures (2018) — Self - Guest
3. Nino Rota: Between Cinema and Concert (1993) — Self
4. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self
5. A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota (1994) — Self
6. The Magic Flute (2006) — Self - Conductor
7. Conducting Mahler (2002) — Self - Conductor
8. Nabucco (1986) — Self - Conductor
9. Don Giovanni (1987)
10. Neujahrskonzert 2004 (2004) — Self - Conductor
11. Europa Riconosciuta (2004) — Self - Conductor
12. Verdi Ernani (1982) — Self - Conductor
13. Otello (2001) — Self - Conductor
14. New Year's Concert 2021 (2021) — Self - Conductor
15. Beethoven: Symphony 9 by Riccardo Muti (2014) — Self - Conductor
16. Don Pasquale - Teatro alla Scala (1994) — Self - Conductor
17. I vespri Siciliani (1990) — Self - Conductor
18. Don Pasquale (2006) — Self - Conductor
19. Carlos Kleiber: I am Lost to the World (2011) — Self
20. New Year's Concert 2018 (2018) — Self - Conductor
21. Cosi Fan Tutte (1983) — Self - Conductor
22. Resurrection (2019)
23. New Year's Concert 2025 (2025) — Self - Conductor
24. Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa Solemnis op.123 — Self - Conductor
25. Europakonzert 2009 from Naples (2009) — Self - Conductor
26. Concert for Europe 2025 — Self - Conductor
27. Mozart: Symphonies 40 & 41 (2006) — Self - Conductor
28. Concerto per Agrigento - Capitale italiana della Cultura 2025 (2025) — Self - Conductor
29. I Wiener Philharmoniker e Riccardo Muti: una lunga amicizia in musica (2021) — Self - Conductor
30. Porpora • Mozart • Haydn (2002) — Self - Conductor
31. New Year's Concert 2000 (2000) — Self - Conductor
32. Verdi-Requiem mit Riccardo Muti (2019) — Self - Conductor
33. Aida - Verdi - Salzburg Festival (2017) — Self - Conductor
34. Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (2008) — Self - Conductor
35. Falstaff (La Scala) (2002) — Self - Conductor
36. Le Nozze di Figaro (2001) — Self - Conductor
37. Il Trovatore - Teatro alla Scala (2001) — Self - Conductor
38. Manon Lescaut (1998) — Self - Conductor
39. Rigoletto (1994) — Self - Conductor
40. Concert in honor of and in the presence of Pope Leo XIV (2025)