Arnaldo Conti (
Parma
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, 22 February 1855 —
Milan
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, 24 March 1919)
was an Italian conductor of opera.
He spent much of his life on tour in opera houses around the world, directing performances with singers such as
Adelina Patti
Adelina Patti (19 February 184327 September 1919) was an Italian 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her la ...
,
Luisa Tetrazzini
Luisa Tetrazzini (June 29, 1871 in Florence – April 28, 1940 in Milan) was an Italian dramatic coloratura soprano of great international fame. Tetrazzini "had a scintillating voice with a brilliant timbre and a range and agility well b ...
,
Marcella Sembrich
Prakseda Marcelina Kochańska (February 15, 1858 – January 11, 1935), known professionally as Marcella Sembrich, was a Polish coloratura soprano. She is known for her extensive range of two and a half octaves, precise intonation, charm, port ...
,
Emma Calvé
Emma Calvé, born Rosa Emma Calvet (15 August 1858 – 6 January 1942) was a French operatic soprano.
Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. Hers was an international career, and she sang regularly ...
,
Fernando de Lucia,
Riccardo Stracciari,
Antonio Scotti and
Jean
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and
Edouard de Reszke. He seems not to have sought publicity; he rarely ventured into concert hall, or the recording studio unlike his younger, fellow
Parma-born conductors,
Cleofonte Campanini
Cleofonte Campanini (1 September 1860 – 19 December 1919) was an Italian conductor. His brother was the tenor Italo Campanini.
Biography
Born in Parma, Italy on 1 September 1860, Campanini studied music at that city's conservatory, making h ...
and
Arturo Toscanini.
He was at various times conductor at the Opéra-Italien (at the
Théâtre-Italien), Paris; the
Teatro Regio (Parma)
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, Italy; the
Teatro Real
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, Madrid; the
Teatro Solis, Montevideo; the touring
San Carlo Opera Company
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(originally from the
Teatro di San Carlo
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, Naples) then in the US.
From 1909-13 he conducted the
Boston Opera Company at the
Boston Opera House
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.
Family life
He married the soprano Erina Borlinetto.
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1855 births
1919 deaths
Italian male conductors (music)
Musicians from Parma
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
20th-century Italian male musicians