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Silvio Sergio Bonaccorsi Barbato (11 May 19591 June 2009) was an Italian- Brazilian opera conductor and
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. He died on board Air France Flight 447.


Life and career

Maestro Barbato was born in Italy, the son of Daniele Barbato and Rosalba Bonaccorsi, daughter of Silvio and Alvara Bonaccorsi and granddaughter of Celestino and Luigi Bonaccorsi, descendants of the Bonaccorsi brothers, originally from
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, ( Italy), who emigrated to Brazil at the end of the 19th century. His grandparents were both doctors in Candeias ( Minas Gerais), ( Brazil). His father died in Brasilia, of a heart attack, in the 1990s, when at the time he was a professor at the university of the capital. He graduated in "
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" at the University of Brasília; he studied conducting and composition first with
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and then he moved to Milan where he continued with Azio Corghi at "Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi". In 1984 he received his merit degree at the "Accademia Musicale Chigiana" of Siena, and one year later he graduated from the "Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi", also receiving the gold medal in High Conducting, the first Brazilian to receive of this honour since Carlos Gomes. His conducting career started at age 25, when he directed a performance of '' Tosca'' at the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro becoming known as "maestro menudo" ("little conductor") as he was the youngest conductor in Brazil to direct a complete opera and as well because he had a very full head of hair. In Italy he also studied with Franco Ferrara, and he became the assistant director of M°
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at the
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. Master in "Italian Opera" at the University of Chicago in the class of Philip Gossett. Barbato was twice director of the Orchestra of the
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in Brasília: from 1989 to 1992 and from 1999 to 2006. In 1996, for the centenary of Antônio Carlos Gomes, he was called by Plácido Domingo to reconstruct the original partition of the opera ''
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'', for the opening night of the Washington National Opera. This version had never been performed before, after its debut at
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in 1870. He was the musical director of the film ''
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'', and was awarded the
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, in the category Best Score. In 2002 he received the "Medal for Cultural Merits" from the President of Brazil and he was also named "Commendatory of the Order of Rio Branco". In 2006 he directed the first European performance of the opera "Colombo", symphonic coral poem in four acts by
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, music by Antônio Carlos Gomes, at
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of
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. The performance of "Colombo" at Bellini Theatre has been a great event, that also attracted the attention of the international press, because it had never been performed in Europe in 114 years, but only in the American Continent. In this occasion, a CD has been recorded by musical edition "Bongiovanni" of Bologna. In the same year he also received the commission of conducting the close of the Mozartian year, at the Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza. In March 2009 at the International Mugham Festival he conducted symphonic
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s of
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in Philharmonic Hall of
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, Azerbaijan. On 1 June 2008, he conducted the "Camerata Brasil" of Brasilia in the concert "Tribute to Pavarotti", with the participation of Luciana Tavares, Thiago Arancam, Andreas Kisser and
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. In November he conducted the world premiere, in pocket version, of his second opera, "Carlos Chagas" in the
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of Palazzo Pamphilj in Rome,Site of the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs
in the presence of many members of the "Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze" and of eight
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laureates. During the last years Barbato dedicated himself to composition, debuting two operas: "O Cientista", based on the life of Oswaldo Cruz, and "Carlos Chagas", based on the life of
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. In Italy he conducted in Rome,
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, Spoleto, San Remo,
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, Florence, Vicenza,
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. He collaborated with such great singers as Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Montserrat Caballé and Plácido Domingo. He was permanent Director of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, artistic director of the
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in Brasília, and musical director of
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of Palazzo Pamphilj in Rome. He loved his city, Rio de Janeiro, and, despite his international career which required him to travel a lot, he always wanted to live in Brazil. He was a supporter of the football team "
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". He also conducted
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works such as
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's ''
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'' (performed with the city's combined musical forces in 2004).
During his life he promoted the works of his teacher Claudio Santoro whose music he regarded as "indisputably composed in the mould of Soviet socialist realism" on a par with Shostakovich. He also championed the music of
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. Barbato was en route to Kyiv where he was due to conduct and teach, aboard Air France
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from Rio de Janeiro to Paris early on 1 June 2009 when it crashed over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Fernando de Noronha, an archipelago of 21 islands and islets from the Brazilian coast.


Works

*"O Guarani, Canto de Guerra, Canto de Vitória" – book – 2004 *"Terra Brasilis" – ballet – Mondial "prima" at Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro in 2003. *"O Cientista" – opera – Mondiale "prime" at Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro in 2006. *"Carlos Chagas" – opera – Mondial "prima" in poket version at
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of Palazzo Panphilj in Rome, 1 November 2008. *"Simon Bolivar" – opera – His last work, remained uncompleted. Should debut in 2009.


Use of Barbato's death in 419 scams

Barbato's name has been used in some instances of
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, with the English Wikipedia article about him used to add weight to the scammer's letter; any claims made within such letters are false.


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