Lovro von Matačić (1899-1985) was a Croatian conductor, one of the major central European conductors of the twentieth century. He was admired in opera, Bruckner and late-Romantic repertory.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Puccini’s La fanciulla del West with Birgit Nilsson and La Scala forces.

Matačić’s conducting was broad, powerful and theatrically grounded, with the authority needed to hold large opera structures in firm shape.

His page is justified by stature and catalogue context. Matačić gives the Nilsson Puccini shelf a conductor with granite under the velvet.