- May 2018 -
The “Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy” – Riccardo Muti’s project for the teaching and spreading of Italian opera, born in Italy in 2015 – will also take place in Tokyo in March 2019.
Any information about the application and participation process can be found on the website of the Spring Festival – one of the most important Japanese musical institutions – that will be hosting the Italian Opera Academy.
Riccardo Muti chose Rigoletto for his work during the Academy.
An extracted from press release 2018
Muti’s Magic by John Von Rhein, Opera News – April 2019
A lezione da Muti by Stefania Battistini, TG1 – July 24, 2018
A Ravenne, Riccardo Muti aux sources de Verdi by Marie-Aude Roux, Le Monde – July 26, 2018
A lezione di verità con Verdi e Muti by Carla Moreni, Il Sole 24 ORE – July 9, 2018
Im Kampf fur den Komponisten by Von Peter Krause, concerti magazine – September 2018
Riccardo Muti und Verdis Schicksalskreise by Manuel Brug, DIE WELT – July 22, 2018
Ein grandioser Lehrer by Kirsten Liese, ORPHEUS magazine – September/October 2018
“Lezioni di podio ecco i miei segreti” by Donatella Longobardi, IL MATTINO – July 26, 2018
A lezione da Muti by Enrico Gatta, QN – July 20, 2018
An extracted from press release 2017
Muti insegna il made in Italy della musica by Carla Moreni, Il Sole 24 ORE – September 9, 2017
The next generation: Muti’s Academy by George Loomis, Opera Magazine – December 2017
“Verdi ist der Musiker meines Lebens” by Hans Jorg Jans, nmz Magazine – November 2017
Quando Muti insegna l’Aida “Verdi va suonato con pudore” La Stampa – September 11, 2017
Muti & Verdi, lezioni di genio QN – September 8, 2017
La bottega dove Muti crea i nuovi maestri il Giornale – September 4, 2017
The young Taiwanese conductor Su-Han Yang, who participated in the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy on Giuseppe Verdi's “Falstaff” (2015), has won the 10 th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors, in Katowice (Polonia), from 17 to 26 Novembre 2017.
On 24 November, the Jury decided to award this distinction - funded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage - to the young conductor.
Photo © Silvia Lelli
Vladimir Ovodok, who attended the first edition of the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy (2015), will conduct Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo and Tosca by Giacomo Puccini at Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna for Ravenna Festival’s "Autumn Trilogy” in November 2017, 17th to 26 th.
With Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini (founder Riccardo Muti).
Photo © Silvia Lelli
An extracted from press release 2016
“A scuola di Verdi da Muti” La Stampa – July 26, 2016
“Insegno Verdi per recuperarne l’essenza” by Riccardo Muti Il Sole 24 Ore – July 31, 2016
“Verdi in Academy: Straight to the heart of the opera” by Enrico Gatti
Students who took part to the master class in 2015 (July 10 to 21): conductors Vincenzo Milletarì, Vladimir Ovodok, Su-Han Yang and Erina Yashima; répétiteurs Andrés Jesús Gallucci, Tamar Giguashvili, Giorgio Martano, Bojie Yin. The programme chose some of the most significant pages of Verdi’s last masterpiece, from the first part of every Act, to the extraordinary finale that sees every character on stage for what is a sort of artistic testament of the composer, which is “Tutto nel mondo è burla”.
After having taken part to the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy 2015, conductor Erina Yashima won the presigious Georg Solti competition in Chicago for a two-year Conducting Apprenticeship, giving her the opportunity to study and assist Riccardo Muti during the residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The first edition of the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Asia took place from May 22 to 29, 2016.
Eight days of intensive work on the Italian Opera for young musicians selected by Riccardo Muti occurred at the Gyeonggi Arts Center in South Korea.
Riccardo Muti chose to focus the work of his master class on Verdi's La Traviata, so as he did for 2016 Academy in Ravenna.
photoHD©Gyeonggi Arts Center
