While this concert has been billed as the Maestro’s final Verdi project with the CSO, audiences can only hope that after he steps down as music director at the end of next season he will return periodically to lead other such concerts.
It was a stunner. Muti not only clearly reveled in this homage to Verdi’s Italian roots and musical genius, but he held true to his belief that the music can be best heard and most fully appreciated in concert form, when it is largely liberated from the distractions that often can come with a fully staged work. Those are the occasions in which a director’s whims, overblown acting and elaborate scenery take hold.
The opera opens with a haunting prologue that makes the score sing even before we hear the singers themselves. There is the beautiful sound of the low strings to start, a quick transition to moments of great fury, and then a return to a sort of calm and hint of romance.
In brief, the story begins as Riccardo, Earl of Warwick and governor of Boston is planning a masked ball. Among his guests are Renato and his wife, Amelia , with whom Riccardo is feverishly in love. After Amelia leaves, Riccardo also consults Ulrica, and she warns him that the next man to shake his hand will murder him — a warning he brushes off. That “next man” turns out to be Renato, who, as it happens, has arrived to warn his friend Riccardo that two conspirators, Samuel and Tom , are planning to murder him. But along the way Renato discovers that Riccardo and his wife are in love, and he joins the conspirators in their plan to murder the governor, the man he believed was his friend.
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