1.   Italian conductor Evelino Pido led tidily.

2.   So Marco Guidarini, an energetic young Italian conductor in his company debut, deserves credit for eliciting passably good playing from the orchestra.

3.   The Italian conductor was credited with an almost clinical devotion to scores as written and a rigid adherence to tempo.

4.   The work of Maurizio Benini, an Italian conductor making his Met debut, was hard to assess.

5.   There is a seeming paradox in the Italian conductor demanding the kind of precision that is stereotypically associated with Germans.

6.   Giuseppe Sinopoli, an Italian conductor best known for daring interpretations of Verdi and Puccini, dies in Berlin after suffering a heart attack.

7.   Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli, best known for daring interpretations of Verdi and Puccini, died after suffering a heart attack while conducting at a Berlin opera house.

8.   Eighteen turned up to perform with the Lille Orchestra from northern France before the jury headed by Italian conductor Gianfranco Rivoli.