Riccardo Muti
I have spent most of my life trying to understand what Verdi wanted to tell us with his music.
– Riccardo Muti, Muti Conducts Verdi (documentary)
Themes: devotion, interpretation, music | Art form: Opera
More quotes by Riccardo Muti
- No one holds the truth, but I have never used Verdi or any other Italian composer for a theatrical or dramatic effect.
- These operas are in the hands many times of stage directors who with some exceptions are destroying the opera.
- What I hate is indifference. Our profession is to convey feelings.
- Today, the tendency is for the arms to be something to show to the public.
- The music of Verdi moves you, helps you and comforts you, because it speaks to men about men, not about superheroes.