Riccardo Muti's Final Bow in Chicago: A Review.

Riccardo Muti, the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will end his 13-year tenure leading Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” in June 2023. However, since his successor has not yet been named, he will be continuing as a kind of shadow music director next season, and possibly longer. Muti's time in Chicago has been widely reckoned an enormous success, taking the great Chicago Symphony Orchestra and making it even greater. His departure is a milestone as the generation of leaders born before the end of World War II passes.