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Dimitri Mitropoulos

Dimitri Mitropoulos has been played on NTS shows including Tommasi, with Madama Butterfly first played on 13 January 2020.

Dimitri Mitropoulos is one of those conductors from the mid-20th century, like Hermann Abendroth, who was rediscovered as the century drew to a close. A renowned interpreter of the works of Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and other late Romantics, he was also one of the most controversial and tragic musical figures of his era, owing to his barely concealed homosexuality and his fanatical, almost priest-like dedication to music, which ultimately helped cost him his life. …

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
In The Steppes Of Central Asia
The Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Borodin
Columbia Masterworks1954
In The Steppes Of Central Asia
The Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Ippolitov-Ivanov, BorodinColumbia Masterworks1954
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Madama Butterfly
Puccini, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Dorothy Kirsten, Daniele Barioni
The Metropolitan Opera Record Club1957
Madama Butterfly
Puccini, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Dorothy Kirsten, Daniele BarioniThe Metropolitan Opera Record Club1957
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