Riccardo Muti to conduct Vatican concert in front of Pope Benedict XVI

Italian maestro will lead Rome's Teatro dell'Opera in selection from Vivaldi and Verdi in honour of pope's seventh anniversaryVatican City, Associated PressThe Italian conductor Riccardo Muti will conduct a concert in the Vatican in honour of Pope Benedict XVI, the second big-name maestro to perform for the pope this spring. La Scala opera house announced last week that Daniel Barenboim would conduct Beethoven's Ninth symphony when the pope visits Milan on 1 June.According to a statement on his ...

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