Word: giulini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Giulini conducts the masterpiece of Verdi...
...troop out from behind the curtain to bask in the bravos. By the time the conductor finally gets his turn, many patrons have already rushed up the aisles to grab a taxi. Last week in Los Angeles, though, the audience reserved its loudest cheers for the maestro: Carlo Maria Giulini, 67, returning to the operatic stage after an absence of 14 years...
Franco Zeffirelli said that she did as much as Verdi for Italian opera. Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini said, "It is no fabricated legend. In my entire experience of the theater, I know of no artist like Maria Callas." Her private life, much of it conducted in public, was also the stuff of legend. She had the iron whim and comet-like will, the greed, love and hatred of someone strong enough to overturn the laws of life...
Verdi: Rigoletto (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). In his first opera recording in a decade, Carlo Maria Giulini leads a performance that is a meditation on Verdi's musical drama...