Riccardo Muti crashes his birthday cake
NewsThe 80th birthday did not go smoothly.
This supposedly celebratory video has just been posted on Youtube.
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I hope he is okay. The lady should of carried the
Big cake.
Of course. that’s what ladies are for. right?
Equality dictates that women should have paid for the entire party since they are just as capable as men.
You do know the definition of equality, right? Women should pay as much as men. Not for “the entire party”. Are you the type that says gay marriage is unfair because they are asking for special rights, which is to be equal?
The person helping carry the cake in was a woman. You have no idea what the circumstances were. If there were a man helping to carry the cake it, I’m guessing Henry’s statement would have been different.
You’re just virtue-signaling like a good member of the woke brigade.
No, that’s what younger people are for….
I agree. One shouldn’t be expected to carry his own cake into such an occasion.
Why didn’t they just wheel it in?
The lady should have been inside the cake. What kind of birthday cake doesn’t have a stripper inside?
Should’ve!
We had started to wonder when Chailly’s vodoo would finally kick in.
… united with the raw power of Myung-whun Chung’s “Chinese” Ancestral Curse!
Muti has a big talent for hating the best especially when they a very good relationship with La Scala orchestra
I think that Abbado from the heavens did something with his former asistant from la Scala Chailly ahahahaha… Stop jocking I said enough bad things about Muti. Happy bithday I hope is getting well
A friend of mine said this video is fake. Has its authenticity been confirmed?
This is totally authentic. It happened on July 29. Location: Concert Hall of Naple’s Majella Conservatory. The school had decided to throw Muti a party the day after his birthday.
However, overnight a ninja agent sent by Lissner from nearby San Carlo treated the pavement with soap.
Correction: it happened on Sat. July 31st; the location above is correct. Just Google pictures for the location and you’ll recognize the Hall.
I believe Hans Winkler is fake!
Everyone in the room wearing a mask except him, who obviously does not care about breathing and spitting on his own cake?
Just like Trump. Actually, worse … take a look: https://youtu.be/2tszIXno2Q8
“ Everyone in the room wearing a mask except him”. When your first sentence is such an obvious lie that takes less than a few seconds to verify, what you say from then on is irrelevant
The Maestro has a great sense of humor. I wonder what he said to the audience afterwards. Hope he is OK.
Very funny speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ-G3qNmI0U
Funny as a kick in the *****
This is what he said to the audience: “Not to worry, not to worry, I am intact. This was just a stunt. We are rehearsing for THE CARIBBEAN FALL, a new opera commissioned by J.A., to be staged in Chicago in the winter of 2022!”
As Jeff can attest, Muti loves caribbean cruises.
“Funny as a kick in the *****”
Coglioni, perhaps?
We haven’t seen that last may at La Scala
La torta del destino
Bravo, Gustavo.
nice!
This is really the revenge of British soccer fans. As proudly reported by Riccardo Muti Music, the Godfather’s family business, Muti cursed the British before the Euro final saying: “I hope our lads [the Italians] beat the shit out of them [the British]”. (“Spero che i nostri gliele suonino”)
With the typical deviousness of Muti’s entourage, the statement is proudly reported on the Italian version of the site, only to be shrewdly removed in the International English version. check it out: https://www.riccardomuti.com/recent-news/
La forza del intestino.
Tirami giù
Straight out of ‘The Exterminating Angel’!
On behalf of women someone receiving their just deserts!
Some very funny comments.
Nonetheless, falling at 80 could have serious consequences, a cascade of effects leading to a precipitous decline in health from a seemingly innocuous fall for someone much younger.
I hope he is doing fine.
Worthy of ‘You’ve Been Framed!’
Happily Muti wasn’t hurt and was able to get up immediately. I don’t understand why he was carrying the cake however; surely someone should have been carrying it for him. He was fortunate not to have been injured though.
Was it a panforte?
Poor Riccardo. What a thing. He was lucky not to have been injured.
Yes, thanks to his well-functioning physical reflexes he fell first on his hands.
Shame on the person who released this and shame on this website for sharing it. To this we’ve come. Laughing at an octogenarian taking a nasty fall. Appalling.
Hypothetically speaking, if an octogenarian was known to be mocking colleagues, head of government, donors, board trustees, homosexuals, lesbians, asians, people fighting for women equality; and if he was known to be a completely unethical person; I personally would not find anything written here appaling.
Karma?
What an apropos name you have for making comments.
Chicagorat probably carrying a grudge after being fired by the orchestra or didn’t win an audition? Just my hunch.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
Chill Jason, what did you expect from a gossip tabloid directed at vindictive a**holes?…
Many flying cakes in Richard Strauss’ “In der Konditorküche”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4-IqNHQdUQ
==falling at 80 could have serious consequences, a cascade of effects
That is a fair point. A fall by the elderly Pierre Boulez was followed by all sorts of health problems – and who knows what might have been from a cascade
Bernard Haitink fell twice in his 80ties.
https://slippedisc.com/2018/06/breaking-bernard-haitink-suffers-severe-fall/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/howard-reich/ct-ent-cso-haitink-review-1027-story.html
Great story…
Of course we are sorry he fell, and of course we are happy he didn’t hurt himself, but it is still funny.
(I was only disappointed he didn’t stand up with cake on his face)
When I turned 10 we were on an exotic European vacation with a tour group chartered with my dad’s company.
One night, they celebrated the birthdays of everyone in the group who had a birthday during the trip. The hotel chef, complete with giant white chef hat, strode out from the kitchen proudly holding an enormous layer cake in front of him.
Just as he got to the center of the dining hall he slipped!
And fell, face first, into the magnificent tower, then scrambled back up, his face covered with frosting!
Everyone gasped.
Then they brought out the real cake. It was all a joke!
I hope that’s what Muti was doing, but 80 is a bit old to be doing pratfalls.
If you look closely, you will see that she trips him.
During an early season in Chicago, he blacked out, fell off the podium and was rushed to the hospital with a heart condition. At a certain age, any fall is serious. I hope he got medical attention and all is well.
And had a pacemaker fitted after the Chicago fall – though I think that was much more serious. It looks like he was able to get up after this fall and didn’t lose consciousness as in Chicago.
He’s 80: this is what happens when you get old. Falls are common and the most common cause of death in old people.
So besides face masks against Corona, old people should consider wearing helmets.
Or just stay in bed and read Slippedisc.
As you suggest,this is exactly what I am doing at this moment!!!!
Stay safe!
or get vaccinated against falls? including refreshers against the cake-fall variant.
Riccardo Muti can have his cake and eat it to. To his La Scala enemies Let them eat cake.
Poor guy!!! At 80! Fell, dropped the cake! Amen!
Maestro Muti’s accident was not funny but this extract from an online paper called “Italy 24 News” is:
“He went down the stairs with confidence at the foot of the stalls when, probably for a foot a phallus or a slip sudden, falls ruinously on the ground with the whole package of cakes just as those present sing the song “Happy Birthday to You“.”
However, Muti’s mostly marvelous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw3HeUK7p2c