Overview
- Speaking to Corriere della Sera, Muti confirmed he will conduct in the Vatican on December 12 at Pope Leone XIV’s invitation.
- His program features Cherubini’s Messa per l’incoronazione di Carlo X with the Orchestra giovanile Luigi Cherubini and the Siena Cathedral choir.
- Il Giornale reports the Pope is expected to personally present Muti with the Ratzinger Prize after the concert, a detail not yet carried in a formal Vatican release.
- The same report, citing St. Peter’s Basilica sources, says Monsignor Georg Gänswein is slated to celebrate a memorial Mass for Benedict XVI on December 13.
- Coverage frames the concert and potential prize presentation as a shift from the quieter concert calendar under Pope Francis, highlighting Muti’s long rapport with Benedict and his advocacy for traditional sacred music.