About
Orchestral conductor who served as director of La Scala, Milan's famed opera house. He also conducted the Berlin Philharmonic and the London and Chicago Symphony Orchestras.
Before Fame
He attended both the Milan Conservatory and the Vienna Academy of Music.
Trivia
He headed the Vienna State Opera during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Family Life
His father, Milan-based violinist Michelangelo Abbado, was his first music teacher.
Associated With
As a young man, he entered and won the Tanglewood Music Festival's Serge Koussevitzky Conducting Competition.
