Verdi/ Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masterworks Fulfilled By FYE Adrian Utley

Adrian Utley

heard here in it's world-premiere recording

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Conceived as a musical travelogue

Falstaff transforms Shakespeare's morality play into an ode to life

Verdi/ Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masterworks Fulfilled By FYE Adrian UtleyThis new album features overtures, choruses and intermezzos drawn from masterworks by Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, and Boito, played with mastery by Music Director Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Having presented these works numerous times during his tenure as music director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Maestro Muti performed them with the CSO in the 2016 17 season. Recorded live during concerts in June 2017, this album