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===Personal life=== Mitropoulos was noted for having an [[eidetic memory]] (which enabled him to conduct without a score, even during rehearsals) and for his monk-like life style due to his deeply religious, [[Greek Orthodox]] beliefs. Mitropoulos was "quietly known to be homosexual" and "felt no need for a cosmetic marriage".<ref name="horowitz">{{citation |title=Classical Music In America: A History Of Its Rise And Fall |first=Joseph |last=Horowitz |year=2005 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=0-393-05717-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/classicalmusicin00jose/page/323 323] |url=https://archive.org/details/classicalmusicin00jose/page/323 }}</ref> Among his relationships reportedly was one with a young [[Leonard Bernstein]].<ref name="lebrecht" /> Mitropoulos was a close friend and mentor to [[William Bast]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bast |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jSPuAAAAMAAJ |title=Surviving James Dean |date=2006 |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=978-1-56980-298-4 |page=275 |language=en}}</ref> Mitropoulos died in [[Milan]], Italy at the age of 64 of heart failure, while rehearsing Mahler's [[Symphony No. 3 (Mahler)|Third Symphony]] at the [[La Scala]] Opera House. One of his last recorded performances was Verdi's ''[[La forza del destino]]'' with [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]], [[Antonietta Stella]] and [[Ettore Bastianini]] in Vienna on 23 September 1960.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Philharmonic |first=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1tkEAAAAMAAJ |title=Programs |date=1956 |publisher=Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York. |pages=7 |quote=Vienna - Mitropoulos brings excitement to Puccini the most fascinating operatic event in many years - Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted for the first time a performance of the Vienna State Opera, and this festive performance was, without exaggeration, the most fascinating evening of musical theatre that we have heard in many years at the Opera.}}</ref> On 31 October 1960, two days before his death, Mitropoulos conducted Mahler's Third Symphony with the [[Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra]]. The performance was recorded and later issued commercially.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quinn |first=John |date=11 October 2011 |title=Review |url=https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2011/Oct11/Mahler3_Mitropoulos_ICAC5021.htm |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603040707/http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2011/Oct11/Mahler3_Mitropoulos_ICAC5021.htm |archive-date=3 June 2023 |access-date=18 October 2023 |website=MusicWeb International }}</ref> {{external media|float=right|width=250px|audio1=Mitropoulos conducting [[Kodály]]'s ''[[Háry János]] Suite'' with the [[New York Philharmonic]] in 1953 [https://archive.org/details/KodlyHryJnosSuite/03.Iii.Song.mp3 '''On archive.org''']}}
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