In Tuesday’s (5/8) Chicago Tribune, John von Rhein writes, “No sooner have the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti unpacked their bags from their successful tour of Russia and Italy last month than they are making plans for two more foreign trips together next season. The music director will take his orchestra on its first tour to Mexico in October, followed by their first joint tour of the Far East in January and February of 2013, the CSO announced Tuesday. … During their 13-day visit to the Far East, Jan. 25-Feb. 7, Muti and the CSO are scheduled to give nine concerts in six cities. The tour will add Taiwan, South Korea and Tianjin, China, to the growing list of foreign countries and cities the orchestra will have visited for the first time. … This year’s 40th anniversary Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato provided an ideal opportunity to reopen the conversation. And so the orchestra will perform in that charming colonial-era town in central Mexico on Oct. 8. Its brief Mexican tour will conclude with a concert in Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes on Oct. 10. Both concerts of the two-city tour will consist of the overture to Verdi’s ‘Nabucco,’ Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ Symphony and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2.”
Posted May 9, 2012
