Over these many decades, has your understanding of Aida changed in any significant way? You conducted Aida for the first time at the Vienna Staatsoper in 1973 - some 30 years later - and you made a historic recording in 1974. You returned to Aida in Salzburg in the summer of 2017, and now you lead it in Chicago. So that was the first time I heard Aida, but I don’t remember what kind of performance it was! Apparently, for the entire opera, I never cried or gave signs of being uncomfortable. The driver was sitting in the last row of the theater, and I was in his arms. In Bari, there is a theater called Teatro Petruzzelli. My father wanted to hear Aida there, but they didn’t know where to leave their little boy - I was 3 years old - so they asked the driver to hold during the performance. My father, who was a medical doctor, had a fantastic tenor voice, and he loved opera very much. RM: I lived in Molfetta, 25 kilometers north of Bari. PH: Your personal history with Aida goes back to your childhood, perhaps even before your first memories. Ahead of the concert performances of Aida by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Riccardo Muti spoke with program annotator Phillip Huscher about this opera and his devotion to the music of Giuseppe Verdi.
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