Roberto Abbado, born December 30, 1954, in Milan, Italy, is an Italian
conductor. Abbado studied piano and composition at the Conservatorio G. Rossini
in Pesaro and trained under Mario Gusella and Franco Ferrara. Abbado made opera
recordings including Giacomo Puccini's Turandot in 1993, Gioachino Rossini's
Tancredi in 1996, and Vincenzo Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi in 1998,
followed by Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale in 1994, L'amour in 2013, Revive in
2016, and Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth in 2021. Abbado was appointed Artistic
Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2...