I probably have posted this story before but whatever gets us to Page 4, right?
Riccardo Muti's dad was a doctor in my father's town (Molfetta, Italy) and my uncle was his chauffeur. The only reason Muti was born in Naples is that his mother traveled back for each of her deliveries (4?) because she didn't want her kids, who might one day be famous, to be born in some podunk town on the Adriatic. She hated the fact that her husband dragged her there to begin with.