From top to bottom: James Levine (Photo: Michael Lutch); Evgeny Kissin (Photo: Sheila Rock); Alan Held as Wozzeck (Photo: Metropolitan Opera / Cory Weaver)

Riccardo Muti conducting 'Otello' at Carnegie Hall (Photo: Richard Termine); Muti and Gerard Depardieu shake hands after a performance of 'Lélio'

 

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)