She succeeded Riccardo Chailly as head of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Before that, she was the first woman appointed to the conducting staff of the New York Philharmonic, and that orchestras first holder of the Arturo Toscanini...

I hear his voice. He is the only singer who has ever made me cry when I hear him sing. Arguably one of the greatest singers the world has ever known, very few fondly remember him today outside of certain music circles. I’m talking about Mario Lanza, one...

The Washington Independent Review of Books “If the lovers in “Tristan und Isolde” had been Italian, by the end of the second act “they would already have seven children, but they’re Germans, so they’re still talking.” So quipped conductor Arturo...

The orchestra rehearses during the Gulf War in 1991, with gas masks at the ready by each chair in case of missile attack It was, in the end, left to the long-time music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, to put his finger on what

In 2010 he was one of the prime movers behind celebrations organized for the 100th anniversary of Puccini¹s opera ³La Fanciulla del West,² which Arturo Toscanini had conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Walfredo Toscanini was born in Milan...

The Russian connection is the one that tends to receive more attention. It is the story of Bartók lying on a hospital bed listening to a radio broadcast of Arturo Toscanini conducting the American premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich’s seventh (“Leningrad”)...