CSO Resound Showcase: Riccardo Muti conducts Italian Masterworks and Prokofiev

April 28, 2019, 8:00 pm

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Riccardo Muti (Photo: Pietro Paolini)

Maestro Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program of Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, and Boito. He also leads a performance of Prokofiev’s Suite from Romeo and Juliet.

Playlist

Verdi: Overture to Nabucco

Verdi: Gli arredi festivi from Nabucco
Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director

Verdi: Patria oppressa! from Macbeth
Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director

Verdi: Overture to I vespri siciliani

Puccini: Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut

Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana

Boito: Prologue to Mefistofele
Riccardo Zanellato, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director; Chicago Children’s Choir; Josephine Lee, director

Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet

Montagues and Capulets
Juliet the young girl
Madrigal
Minuet
Masks
Romeo and Juliet
Death of Tybalt
Romeo at Juliet’s tomb