FLORENCE, ITALY – Tributes flowed Monday for world-renowned conductor Claudio Abbado, whose long career in such cities as Milan, London, Vienna, Chicago and Berlin was remembered along with his devotion to music and Italian culture.
President Giorgio Napolitano said that the death of Abbado “is a source of strong emotion and pain for me personally, and a profound loss for Italy and for (our) culture”. In tribute to Abbado, Francesco Bianchi of Florence’s Maggio Musicale opera festival announced that its performance of Verdi’s Nabucco, opening Tuesday night, would be dedicated to the legendary conductor.
Abbado, who was born into a musical family in Milan in 1933, began his long and illustrious career in the 1950s. Abbado won two Grammy awards and in April 2012, he was voted into the Gramaphone Hall of Fame.
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