Revered conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) in music by two of the great Italian opera composers, plus Tchaikovsky’s formidable Fourth Symphony. Our 2023–2024 season-opening concerts at Carnegie Hall showed Muti and the CSO in peak form as one of the world’s top Verdi partnerships, performing the overture to Giovanna d’Arco with a “crackling energy and a sense of reveling—not just in the music, but also in the ensemble itself,” according to The New York Times. Muti is also highly renowned for his performances of the Tchaikovsky symphonies, and this concert promises an evening of high drama and thrilling orchestral playing.