MILAN (Reuters) - Claudio Abbado, who decided to become a conductor after hearing a concert at La Scala at the age of eight and went on to lead the Milan opera company and top orchestras for more than ...

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Claudio Abbado, one of the world's top conductors who over the decades led the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna's State Opera and Milan's La Scala, has died aged 80, the Milan opera house said on ...

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 his ...

Claudio Abbado, one of the world’s top conductors who over the decades led the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna’s State Opera and Milan’s La Scala, has died aged 80, the Milan opera house said on ...

Still from the film "Claudio Abbado: The Silence That Follows the Music," 1996. Abbado career included stints as music director of several major international orchestras, the Associated Press reported ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian conductor Claudio Abbado conducts the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra during rehearsal in Rome's Santa Cecilia Auditorium ...

Claudio Abbado, one of the most gifted and widely respected symphonic and operatic conductors of the latter half of the 20th Century, died Monday morning at his home in Bologna, Italy, after a long ...

ROME — Claudio Abbado, a star in the great generation of Italian conductors revered for developing a rapport with members of the world’s leading orchestras while still allowing them their independence ...