He also studied at Leipzig- piano, singing, conducting & composition.
But what really interest me are the differences -- differences in singing, conducting and philosophy -- and how they may have sparked the sharply divided critical response the Jacobs set has received.
Although he took private lessons on piano, organ and cello, as well as in singing, conducting and theory, he was self-taught as a composer.
Throughout his life he sang, conducted, produced and taught music in many forms, with special love for classical and Gilbert and Sullivan light opera.
In effect, "Doktor Faust" needs a Busoni to sing, conduct and stage it.
The opera is "Tosca," with Pavarotti singing Cavaradossi and James Levine conducting.
Mr. Domingo, 69, suffered "intense pain and discomfort" while singing and conducting in Tokyo, Ms. Seltzer said.
But never before has Domingo alternated singing and conducting the same opera.
Although Green suffered from macular degeneration and was nearly blind for about a decade, that didn't stop him from sauntering, Magoo-like, around town, singing and conducting to himself.
Still in his teens, high in the gods of the city's theatres and concert halls, he revelled in opera, drama, music, comedy: the collected works of Schoenberg, Joan Sutherland singing Lucia, Giulini conducting The Barber of Seville.
After they finished, James Morris — whom Mr. Levine praised as "the Wotan of our time" — called attention to the way Mr. Levine, who came to lunch in the wheelchair he now conducts from, could not sit still as they sang — almost conducting along, and breathing with the singers, as he does from the pit.
