Giuseppe Sinopoli

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Giuseppe Sinopoli (November 2, 1946 – April 20, 2001) was a conductor and composer. Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatoire in Venice under Ernesto Rubin de Cervin and at Darmstadt, including being mentored in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen. He also obtained a degree in medicine from the University of Padua, and completed a dissertation on criminal anthropology. Sinopoli began to make a name for himself as a composer of serial works, becoming professor of contemporary and electronic music at the Venice Conservatoire Benedetto Marcello in 1972, and a major proponent of the new movement in Venice for contemporary music. He studied conducting at the Vienna Academy of Music under Hans Swarowsky; and in Venice, founded the Bruno Maderna Ensemble in the 1970s. His single most famous composition is perhaps his opera Lou Salomé, which received its first production in Munich in 1981. Sinopoli was appointed principal conductor of the Philharmonia in 1984, and served in this position until 1994, making a number of recordings with them, including music of Edward Elgar and the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler. He became principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1992. He also joined the Bayreuth Festival's roster of conductors. He is best known for his intense and sometimes controversial interpretations of opera, especially works by Italian composers and Richard Strauss. Sinopoli specialized in late-nineteenth c

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40 Most Beautiful Arias

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Mad About The Classics

Recomposed by Matthew Herbert - Mahler Symphonie No. 10

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Verdi: Nabucco

Schönberg : Pierrot lunaire & Erwartung

Sinopoli conducts Schoenberg, Berg & Webern

Bizet : Carmen [Highlights]

Opera Choruses

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Yellow Lounge Vol.3

Mad About Sopranos

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Richard Strauss: Salome

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Les 100 chefs-d'oeuvre de la musique classique

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