![Aldo Ceccato](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Aldo_Ceccato.jpg)
Aldo Ceccato (born 18 February 1934) is an Italian
conductor.
Ceccato was born in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
. He worked as assistant to
Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache (; 14 August 1996) was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures ...
and was music director of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
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from 1973 until 1977. Then, from 1976 until 1982, he was music director of the Hamburg Philharmonic. He was also music director of the
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 until 1990. He is the son-in-law of conductor
Victor de Sabata
Victor de Sabata (10 April 1892 – 11 December 1967) was an Italian conductor and composer. He is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished operatic conductors of the twentieth century, especially for his Verdi, Puccini and Wagner.
D ...
and has made a recording of de Sabata's compositions for the
Hyperion record label. In 1971, he recorded
Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the '' bel canto'' opera style dur ...
's ''Maria Stuarda'' and Verdi's ''La traviata'', both with
Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.
Although she sang a repertoire from Handel and Mozart to Puccini, Massenet and Verdi, she was especially renowned f ...
.
References
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1934 births
Italian male conductors (music)
Living people
Musicians from Milan
21st-century Italian conductors (music)
21st-century Italian male musicians
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