From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. Georg Solti
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. Francis Ford Coppola
Toscanini was hailing a great artist, but that voice was more than a magnificent personal talent. It was the religious voice of a whole religious people - probably the most God-obsessed (and man-despised) people since the ancient Hebrews. Whittaker Chambers
After the initial performances in Italy, other European countries and the US, the work was neglected until the conductor Arturo Toscanini insisted on its revival at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in New York from the late 1890s into the next century. Source: Internet
Budden, p. 197 Because of the Roman setting, Ricordi arranged a Roman premiere for the opera, even though this meant that Arturo Toscanini could not conduct it as Puccini had hoped—Toscanini was fully engaged at La Scala in Milan. Source: Internet
Ashbrook and Powers, p. 143 and 154 However, in his biography of Toscanini, Harvey Sachs claims that Toscanini did conduct the second and third performances before withdrawing from the production due to nervous exhaustion. Source: Internet