The Fiery Angel
A specialist of contemporary works, he conducted at La Scala the premieres of Milhaud's "David", Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites", Walton's "Troilus and Cressida", Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk", Berg's "Lulu", Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Prokofiev's "The Fiery Angel", while abroad, notably in Britain, he introduced several works by Italian composers such as Malipiero, Dallapiccola and Pizzetti. He conducted the premiere of the final revised version of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's First Symphony in 1957.