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ORFF: CARMINA BURANA (London). Conductor Riccardo Chailly gives Orff's Wheel of Fortune a lusty spin...
...Italian Claudio Abbado, 50, who finished as music director at Milan's La Scala opera house last month. (Maazel's purely administrative duties have fallen to new General Director Claus Helmut Drese.) To fill Abbado's prized post, La Scala tapped another Italian, Philadelphia Orchestra Conductor Riccardo Muti, 42. In 1982 Muti rejected a similar offer from London's Royal Opera House to follow Sir Colin Davis there in 1986. Apparently La Scala's was an offer he could not refuse, although he will continue to lead the Philadelphia...
Last week the Metropolitan Opera offered a few clues as it staged a new production of Riccardo Zandonai's hot-blooded thriller Francesca da Rimini. First performed in 1914, Francesca was one of a number of works that attempted to transcend romantically the naturalistic action of verismo, using the more advanced harmonic language and orchestral technique of Wagner to create a new direction for opera. In La Fanciulla del West (1910), Puccini had pointed the way, and several younger men were eager to inherit his mantle: Italo Montemezzi, with L'Amore del Tre Re (1913); Ildebrando Pizzetti, with...
...last week, Tylenol had regained more than 80% of the market share it held before the still unsolved poisonings. "It's a miracle, pure and simple," said Joseph Riccardo of the Bear, Stearns investment banking firm. "The consensus among shrewd advertising executives on Madison Avenue was that the brand name would never recover." Indeed, after the deaths the nonaspirin drug's share of the $1.2 billion painkiller market fell from 35% to 7%. In a poll, a majority of Tylenol users said they probably would never return to the capsules...
...known for their exceptionally rich string tone, at least partly produced by compensating for the dry acoustics in their home, the Academy of Music; curiously, the "Philadelphia sound" could not be fully appreciated in Philadelphia, but only in a sympathetic environment like New York's Carnegie Hall. Under Riccardo Muti, 41, the Italian conductor who succeeded Ormandy in the 1980-81 season, the sound is losing its sometimes overripe fullness and becoming leaner, with greater prominence being given to the winds and brass. The adjustment, though, is not being accomplished without some temporary loss of stature; and Muti...