And as an Italian, I’m proud of that. Audiences deserve to hear good music that they might not necessarily know.” Next on the program is Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, which is the ...

It contains some of his most powerful music, and yet it has always been strangely neglected so that many concert goers, familiar with the canon of Tchaikovsky’s six numbered symphonies ...

During his tenure as this ensemble’s music director, Muti deliberately introduced Italian opera into its ... is the lifeblood of music theater. The Tchaikovsky showcased the formidable ...