Riccardo Muti’s year with the CSO began on a low note with the conductor’s flu and hernia surgery causing him to cancel his January dates and a long-planned CSO Asian tour.
Yet after that dismaying start, the partnership of the orchestra and their beloved Italian maestro went from strength to strength in 2013, culminating in the magnificent September concert performances of Verdi’s Macbeth. The highlight of the CSO concerts marking Verdi’ s 200th birthday, this riveting concert offered Chicago’s finest opera performance of the year as well, with Tatiana Serjan’s vividly characterized and beautifully sung Lady Macbeth leading a faultless cast. The gleaming power and hair-trigger responsiveness of the CSO was jaw-dropping under Muti’s inspired direction, his lifetime of Verdi experience and scholarship shining through every bar.
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