Opera Conductor Bruno Bartoletti, 86

“[While he] conducted around the world, including in Rome, at London’s Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and, for many years, at the Maggio Musicale festival in Florence,” he was best known for his 35 years as artistic director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, which he heped make into one of the world’s top companies.