Entertainment & Arts
Elizabeth Taylor will play an aging opera singer in Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s new film “The Young Toscanini,” based on the legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini’s early years in Italy and Brazil.
June 16, 1987
Tributes mark the 50th anniversary of the conductor’s death.
Jan. 6, 2007
A new, privately funded Italian orchestra that carries on the legacy of the great conductor Arturo Toscanini launches its first U.S. tour after earning raves at home.
Jan. 14, 2007
Movies
Boos and whistles greeted the Venice premiere on Tuesday of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s film about musician Arturo Toscanini, which features Elizabeth Taylor in her first movie role in seven years.
Sept. 7, 1988
ARTURO TOSCANINI PHILHARMONIC Orchestra “They are perfect, though they are Italian,” a newspaper in Lake Como says of the Symphonica Toscanini.
Dec. 31, 2006
Wally Toscanini, 91, who persuaded her father, conductor Arturo Toscanini, to restore La Scala opera house to its prewar glory.
May 18, 1991
RCA is hardly being selective in its seemingly endless tribute to Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini.
Oct. 18, 1992
This copious paperback began life as two volumes from the sharp pen of B. H.
May 21, 1989
Television
“You know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much.”
Jan. 8, 1988
The first re-recordings of all of the late conductor Arturo Toscanini’s performances for the RCA record label will go on sale April 3 on digitally remastered compact discs, cassettes, laser discs and VHS videocassettes.
March 22, 1990