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Riccardo Muti bows out of conducting

24 Sep 2014 - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}      

Riccardo Muti has said “basta” to Rome's opera house after a six-year tenure as honorary director blighted by strikes, infighting and financial woes. The veteran maestro wrote a letter to the theater's general director Carlo Fuortes to say he had dropped plans to conduct upcoming productions of “Aida” and “The Marriage of Figaro”. reuters