Biography

Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor. He served at various times as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.

Known For

The Barber of Seville

Self - Conductor

Macbeth

Self - Conductor

The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky

Self

Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy

Self - Conductor

To Play and to Fight

Self - Interviewee

Conducting Mahler

Self - Conductor

Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence

Self

From the House of the Dead

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