Riccardo Muti
On the state of opera today
There are not even serious rehearsals anymore.
– Riccardo Muti, Interview with Aldo Cazzullo, Corriere della Sera, July 2021 (translated on Gramilano, 14 August 2021)
Themes: craft, discipline, work | Art form: Opera
More quotes by Riccardo Muti
- The music of Verdi moves you, helps you and comforts you, because it speaks to men about men, not about superheroes.
- Today, the tendency is for the arms to be something to show to the public.
- No one holds the truth, but I have never used Verdi or any other Italian composer for a theatrical or dramatic effect.
- Toscanini is my idol.
- I have spent most of my life trying to understand what Verdi wanted to tell us with his music.