(ANSA) - MILAN, 04 DEC - "I feel proud to belong to this country, which betrays us": it was born from this painful awareness of the lack of attention given to music in your homeland, the Italian opera academy of Riccardo Muti, the seventh one edition kicked off tonight at the Prada Foundation, with which it was organized for the first time. "We must try to recover the beautiful, the splendid, otherwise - and this is the purpose of the Master - we fall into routine, into the squalid".
A lesson-show focused on Verdi's Nabucco, the opera by Giuseppe Verdi with which Muti made his debut in 1986 as conductor of the Scala and which he chose as an object of study for the young conductors and master collaborators at the piano, who will have the privilege of working with he,in the next days.
Ten days of rehearsals and lessons until you get to conduct the opera on 15 December in Milan and then in Ravenna and Rimini. The eliminations - explained Muti to the public of the Foundation, including Miuccia Prada, Patrizio Bertelli, the artists MaurizioCattelan and Francesco Vezzoli - closed only yesterday and, of the 200 candidates from all over the world, 5 young directors between the ages of 18 and 35 were chosen. , including an Italian.
In order to be selected, "they had to go through the forks that I apply" said Muti, explaining that it is essential for him that they have a degree in composition and that they sit at the piano to concert with the singers, as he himself did in over two hours of presentation of the opera, open to the public, as will the rehearsals of the next few days.
To his students, Muti immediately began to give advice: "an orchestra conductor must not accept everything a director says: either he disputes or he goes away".
I was reminded of their role to the master collaborators: "which is not that of the pianist who sits at the piano because the conductor does not know how to play".
Nabucco, for him, has another particular meaning, because "it is the work of my debut as musical director at La Scala in 1986: an ideal bridge - he concluded - to return to work in the city that was formative and very important for my life. as a musician ".
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