Agide Jacchia (5 January 1875 – 29 November 1932
["Montreal Opera Company/Compagnie d'opéra de Montréal" ]
''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. ) was an Italian orchestral director.
Early life and education
Born in
Lugo di Romagna
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History
A settlement in where is now the city is mentioned for the first time in 782 AD, but the names Lucus appears only in ...
, Jacchia studied at the Conservatory of Parma from 1886 to 1891 and at the
Liceo Musicale Rossini
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in
Pesaro
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from 1891 to 1898.
He won prizes for flute (1896), conducting (1897), and composition (1898).
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Career
Jacchia debuted as conductor at the Teatro Grande
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in Brescia
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on 26 December 1898.[ Later he conducted at T. Communale, ]Ferrara
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(1899–1900) and La Fenice
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, Venice
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(1901).[ In 1902 he accompanied ]Pietro Mascagni
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on his American tour.[ On his return to Italy he conducted at the Teatro Lirico in Milan (1903), at the Teatro Regio, Livorno (1904), and at ]Siena
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(1905–06).[ From 1907 to 1909 he was conductor of the ]Milan Opera Company
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on its tour in the United States.[ From 1910 to 1913, he was conductor of the Montreal Opera Company,][ and in 1914 of the Century Opera Company,][ in which capacity he led the premiere of Jane Van Etten's ''Guido Ferranti'' in 1914.]Boston Pops
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.["FRENCH AIRS FOR BOSTON."]
''The New York Times'', June 01, 1919 Jacchia was president of the Boston Conservatory
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Boston Conservatory was founde ...
from 1920 until his death in 1932.
Agide Jacchia was married to Italian opera singer Ester Ferrabini, from 1911 until he died in 1932. They had a daughter, Elsa.[Jim McPherson, "Out of the Shadows: Ester Ferrabini" '' Opera Quarterly'' 17(1)(Winter 2001): 28-42.]
References
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1875 births
1932 deaths
People from the Province of Ravenna
Italian male conductors (music)
19th-century Italian musicians
19th-century conductors (music)
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
Italian expatriates in the United States
Boston Conservatory at Berklee faculty
20th-century Italian male musicians