Leone Magiera

Italian conductor and pianist, born in Modena, Italy, in 1934. Childhood friend of Luciano Pavarotti and his very first pianist back in 1960. He also collaborated and played as a piano soloist with Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Carlo Maria Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber and many others. Married to his former student Mirella Freni until their divorce in 1978.