Claudio Abbado, one of the most sought-after conductors of his generation, died Monday in Bologna, Italy, at age 80. His death was announced by a spokesperson for Bologna's mayor, saying that it ...

Michael Oliver had privileged access to Abbado's recording of Verdi's Don Carlos with Domingo in 1985 At the end of a 150-page chapter on Don Carlos, examining the five versions through which the ...

Ever since his debut at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala in 1960, Claudio Abbado has collaborated with and inspired many of the great instrumentalists and singers of the day. Given his renowned intensity of ...

The Italian conductor Claudio Abbado is rehearsing the hundred-plus players of his hand-picked Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Mahler's Third Symphony, in the splendour of Jean Nouvel's concert hall in ...

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Conductor Claudio Abbado has been working on his garden in north-west Sardinia for 40 years. "When I moved here, the only thing here was that bougainvillea," he says, pointing to an outrageous ...

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When the frail Claudio Abbado reached the end of his Lucerne Festival concert in August last year, the once highly charismatic conductor looked so distant and transfigured that many in the audience ...