Riccardo Muti will conduct the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in a program of Verdi, Martucci and Respighi at the Nobel Prize Concert on December 8.
The concert is part of the official Nobel Week program of activities, and is held to honor the year's Nobel Laureates. Muti will conduct Verdi's "Le quattro stagioni" from Act III of I vespri siciliani (the Sicilian Vespers), Martucci's Notturno Op. 70:1 and Respighi's Pines of Rome.
Guests at the concert will include the Nobel laureates and their parties, members of the Swedish royal family and guests of the Nobel Foundation. The general public is also offered the opportunity to attend.
Riccardo Muti is currently the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and enjoys a busy international career as a guest conductor. He recently led the CSO, chorus and soloists in a performance of Verdi's Requiem to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. The concert was broadcast live over the internet and viewed by over 60,000 people worldwide.
Muti is also honorary director for life of the Rome Opera. For nearly 20 years, from 1986 to 2005, he was the music director of La Scala in Milan.
Muti has also been music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. He has maintained a close collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic for more than 40 years, and led the Philharmonic's 150th Anniversary Concert in 1992.
Muti joins a distinguished group of internationally acclaimed conductors and soloists who have performed on the Nobel Prize Concerts over the past eight years. Previous soloists and conductors include Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Lang Lang, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, Martha Argerich, Yuri Temirkanov, Joshua Bell, Joseph Calleja and Christoph Eschenbach.
The Nobel Prize Concert is arranged every year by Nobel Media in cooperation with the Stockholm Concert Hall.
