Claudio Abbado passed away on the 20th of January five years ago, just months before I began my Ph.D.
Riccardo Chailly’s appointment as La Scala’s new music director was news that I greeted with enthusiasm when first announced in 2013.
There is a self-effacing quality to Jonas Kaufmann’s concert film An Evening with Puccini.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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