Alberto Erede

Alberto Erede ( born November 8, 1908 in Genoa, † April 12, 2001 in Monte Carlo ) was an Italian conductor who conducted primarily in opera houses.

Alberto Erede studied in Milan, with Felix Weingartner in Basel and as an assistant to Fritz Busch in Dresden. In 1935, he debuted in Turin and there conducted Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Before the war he has conducted at the Salzburg Festival and at Glyndebourne. In 1946 he was Music Director of the New London Opera Company. From 1950 to 1955 he was engaged by Rudolf Bing as chief conductor for the Italian box at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. From 1956 to 1962 he was at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein worked as a musical director and remained there until old age permanent guest conductor. He headed in Dusseldorf / Duisburg more than 1000 performances.

He enjoyed great success at La Scala, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, Tokyo and Sydney. As one of the few Italians Erede conducted in 1968 at the Bayreuth Festival and took over the musical direction for the performances of Lohengrin. In the fifties and sixties, he recorded several records, among others, the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and Renata Tebaldi as soloists, Inge Borkh, Giuseppe Campora, Mario del Monaco, Ettore and Cesare Siepi Bastianini.