Claudio Abbado, a star in the great generation of Italian conductors who was revered by musicians in the world's leading orchestras for developing a strong rapport with them while still allowing them ...

Claudio Abbado, an Italian Conductor With a Global Reach, Is Dead at 80 Mr. Abbado led some of the world’s most revered musical institutions, including La Scala, the Vienna State Opera and the Berlin ...

The preamble to this review—a cursory glance at the state of the state of box sets in classical music—precedes the first of what will be three (the orchestral works conducted by Ferenc Fricsay’s on ...

A string of unusually bad luck seems to have struck the podium of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Andre Previn is the latest conductor to withdraw because of illness, with Christopher Keene taking ...

When a fine artist dies, we hear that it is a major loss to art. This is usually gross exaggeration: when Mozart died short of 36 years age, just as his career was really taking off, that was a great ...

Korean National Symphony Orchestra’s new music director, Roberto Abbado, first encountered the orchestra in 2023, when he ...

Claudio Abbado, a star in the great generation of Italian conductors who was revered by musicians in the world’s leading orchestras for developing a strong rapport with them while still allowing them ...

Claudio Abbado, an Italian conductor whose wide-ranging mastery of symphonic and operatic repertory and attention to detail drew comparisons to more famous maestros Carlo Mario Giulini, Arturo ...

Claudio Abbado conducting at the London Royal Festival Hall, 1983 Credit: Photo: Alamy Claudio Abbado, the Italian conductor, who has died aged 80, held four of the top musical posts in Europe: La ...