OI Magazine - N° 32 - October 2022

held until 1980. His undisputed talent has been recognized since 1971, when Muti has been invited by Herbert von Karajan to the Salzburg Festival podium, which led in 2010 to a celebration of forty years of artistic collaboration with the Austrian festival. During the 1970s, he was chief conductor of the London’s Philharmonia Orchestra (1972 to 1982) succeeding Otto Klemperer. From 1980 to 1992, he inherited the position of Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra from Eugene Ormandy. His career stood up as in 1986 he was appointed musical director of the Teatro alla Scala, where international projects took shape, such as the proposal of the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy and the Wagner Ring Cycle. Alongside the classics of the repertoire, he brought many rarely performed and neglected works to light, including pieces from the Neapolitan school of the Eighteenth Century, as well as operas by Gluck, Cherubini, and Spontini. Poulenc’s Les dialogues des Carmélites earned Muti the prestigious Abbiati Prize from the critics. The long period spent as Music Director of Teatro alla Scala culminated on December 7th, 2004, in the triumphant re-opening of the restored opera house with Antonio Salieri’s Europa riconosciuta. When the exception becomes rarity, it shows the multiplicity 23 OI magazine

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