One of the great post-World War II conductors, Abbado had a searching musical intellect that he employed in orchestral and operatic music from Mozart to Verdi to contemporary composers.

Claudio Abbado lit a cigar and looked uneasy, as he often did. The Italian conductor, who died in 2014 but would have turned 90 on June 26, was at a meal with the actor Maximilian Schell, in a ...

Claudio Abbado, an Italian conductor who led several of the most storied orchestras of Europe into the modern era with his daring embrace of contemporary music and with the subtle flourishes of ...

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Especially inspired is Abbado’s staging of the second witches’ chorus as a trendy party in which Macbeth seeks refuge after his disgrace in imagining visions of Banquo before his formally ...

One of the great post-World War II conductors, Abbado had a searching musical intellect that he employed in orchestral and operatic music from Mozart to Verdi to contemporary composers.