Paolo Isotta (18 October 1950 – 12 February 2021)[1] was an Italian musicologist and writer.
Isotta graduated from the University of Naples, where he studied classic Letters and law.
[2] From 1971 to 1994, he was ordinary professor of history of music in the Conservatory of Turin and Naples.
He was the musical critic for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera from 1980 to 2015 and for other journals such as Il Giornale.
In 2013 he published a critical article against Daniel Harding and, indirectly, Claudio Abbado, following which Stéphane Lissner, La Scala's director, banned him from the theatre.