Honors
- Muti is an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music since 1981.
- Muti was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE in 2000.
- Muti was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the Universitat de Barcelona on 13 October 2003.
- On 4 June 2010, Muti was awarded the title of Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur by French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
- In 2011, Muti was awarded Russia's Order of Friendship.
Read more about this topic: Riccardo Muti
Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)