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| Riccardo Muti, the celebrated Italian musical conductor, will make a dramatic return to opera’s spiritual home La Scala in Milan, in what appears to be a burying of the hatchet between the Italian maestro and the opera house after a falling out in 2005. | Riccardo Muti, the celebrated Italian musical conductor, will make a dramatic return to opera’s spiritual home La Scala in Milan, in what appears to be a burying of the hatchet between the Italian maestro and the opera house after a falling out in 2005. |
| La Scala said Muti, who serves as a musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, would perform two concerts in Milan in January as part of the Chicago group’s European tour. | La Scala said Muti, who serves as a musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, would perform two concerts in Milan in January as part of the Chicago group’s European tour. |
| The move, La Scala said, represented a “step-by-step” rehabilitation of its relationship with Muti, who was musical director for 19 years before the break in relations. | The move, La Scala said, represented a “step-by-step” rehabilitation of its relationship with Muti, who was musical director for 19 years before the break in relations. |
| “Now we are talking about new projects and we hope that in the future he will come here to conduct an opera,” a spokesman for La Scala said. | “Now we are talking about new projects and we hope that in the future he will come here to conduct an opera,” a spokesman for La Scala said. |
| “What we can say is that [principle conductor] Riccardo Chailly and [artistic director] Alexander Pereira have said they wanted all the great conductors to come back to La Scala and this is especially true for a conductor like Riccardo Muti, who has a long history with this house.” | “What we can say is that [principle conductor] Riccardo Chailly and [artistic director] Alexander Pereira have said they wanted all the great conductors to come back to La Scala and this is especially true for a conductor like Riccardo Muti, who has a long history with this house.” |
| The rapprochement appears to have been helped along after Pereira sought out contact with Muti, who has in the past been described as an autocratic and imperious old-style conductor, before his upcoming 75th birthday – an occasion La Scala will mark with a special exhibit devoted to Muti’s tenure in Milan that will open on 6 June. The maestro will be in La Scala’s main hall to meet the public a day earlier, La Scala said. | The rapprochement appears to have been helped along after Pereira sought out contact with Muti, who has in the past been described as an autocratic and imperious old-style conductor, before his upcoming 75th birthday – an occasion La Scala will mark with a special exhibit devoted to Muti’s tenure in Milan that will open on 6 June. The maestro will be in La Scala’s main hall to meet the public a day earlier, La Scala said. |
| Asked whether the exhibit represented La Scala’s attempt to extend an olive branch to Muti, the opera house said: “We decided to do the right thing. His 75th birthday was anyway an occasion that was not to go unnoticed.” | Asked whether the exhibit represented La Scala’s attempt to extend an olive branch to Muti, the opera house said: “We decided to do the right thing. His 75th birthday was anyway an occasion that was not to go unnoticed.” |
| The Naples-born maestro’s departure from La Scala in 2005 was the result of a tense standoff that pitted the conductor against the orchestra and La Scala workers. Their disagreement centred on the decision to sack Carlo Fontana, the general manager of La Scala, who had clashed with Muti. | The Naples-born maestro’s departure from La Scala in 2005 was the result of a tense standoff that pitted the conductor against the orchestra and La Scala workers. Their disagreement centred on the decision to sack Carlo Fontana, the general manager of La Scala, who had clashed with Muti. |
| At the time, the tensions were so great that Muti’s wife, Cristina Mazzavillani, told an interviewer: “I really don’t know if he still has the will to work.” | At the time, the tensions were so great that Muti’s wife, Cristina Mazzavillani, told an interviewer: “I really don’t know if he still has the will to work.” |
| Nine years later, Muti severed his ties with the Opera of Rome following a spate of strike threats and protests by staff over financial cuts. | Nine years later, Muti severed his ties with the Opera of Rome following a spate of strike threats and protests by staff over financial cuts. |