Maestro Muti was conducting a performance of Nabucco in 2011when the following happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPANwyaSlX4
The Italian government had announced massive cuts in the budget for culture, which would have devastated Italian opera houses, among other things. Alex Ross wrote about it at the time:
https://www.therestisnoise.com/2010/10/the-italian-opera-situation.html
He explains the situation and the aftermath of this event. The video he embedded shows how long the applause was before the shout of "Viva l'Italia" and Maestro Muti's speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_gmtO6JnRs&t=1s
The first one I gave has French and English translations of the chorus as well as a French translation of the speech.
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