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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. This weekend guest conductor Roberto Abbado, a quartet of soloists and the St. Louis Symphony Chorus and Orchestra offered a ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Over 25 years, through crises and a changing world, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland as we know it. By Joshua Barone A collection of 257 CDs and eight DVDs released by ...

This weekend guest conductor Roberto Abbado, a quartet of soloists and the St. Louis Symphony Chorus and Orchestra offered a not-the-usual version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final work, the Requiem, ...

THERE was, said Claudio Abbado, a certain sound to snow. It did not come from walking on it. If you stood on a balcony, too, you could hear it. A falling sound, fading away to nothing, pianissimo, ...