RICCARDO MUTI TO LEAD CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ON U.S. TOUR TO 6 CITIES, INCLUDING A RETURN TO NEW YORK’S CARNEGIE HALL ON JANUARY 21
Opening and Closing Tour Concerts Include Osvaldo Golijov’s Megalopolis Suite, Which Receives World Premiere Performances with Muti and CSO in November
JANUARY 14–24, 2025
CHICAGO – Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on a six-city, eight-concert U.S. tour (January 14–24, 2025) that marks their first domestic tour together since January 2023. Muti, the Orchestra’s distinguished 10th music director from 2010 until 2023, became Music Director Emeritus for Life at the beginning of the 2023/24 Season. Muti is in Chicago through November 9 for CSO subscription concerts that include the world premiere performances of the CSO-commissioned Megalopolis Suite, by Osvaldo Golijov, a former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence from 2006 to 2010. Created from the score for the 2024 Francis Ford Coppola film Megalopolis, the new suite will also be performed in concerts that open and close the U.S. tour on January 14 in Naples, Florida and January 24 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Additional tour repertoire features music from the world of Italian opera, including overtures from Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Bellini’s Norma, as well as the The Four Seasons from Verdi’s I vespri siciliani. Dance-inspired works evoking the landscapes and traditions of southern Spain, including Chabrier’s España and Falla’s Suite No. 2 from the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat, as well as Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) round out the tour programs.