Riccardo Muti
I don’t even recognise my own profession. Conducting has often become a profession of convenience and young people often get into conducting without long and serious study.
– Riccardo Muti, Interview with Aldo Cazzullo, Corriere della Sera, July 2021
Themes: craft, training, vocation | Art form: Music
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