Antonino Votto

Antonino Votto ( born October 30, 1896 in Piacenza, † September 9, 1985 in Milan ) was an Italian opera conductor who worked at La Scala long.

Life and work

Votto studied piano with Alessandro Longo and composition with Camillo de Nardis in Naples. In 1919 he made ​​his first appearance as a pianist in Trieste, where he became a professor at the conservatory at the same time. In 1919 he became Professor in the Conservatory of Milan ( until 1921 ), where he was also a coach at La Scala with Arturo Toscanini. In 1923 he made ​​his debut as a conductor with Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini at La Scala, and in 1924 he made ​​his debut at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Puccini's Madame Butterfly and Pagliacci by Leoncavallo. In 1925 he was second conductor at the Scala and 1929 first Kapellmeister in Trieste. From 1948 he was first Kapellmeister of Scala ( while Victor de Sabata, the conductor was ). Emerged in the 1950s there numerous partly classical recordings with Maria Callas for EMI, as Puccini's La Bohème in 1956, Verdi's Masked Ball in 1956, Bellini's La sonnambula 1957. His debut in the U.S., he had in 1960 in Chicago with Aida and Don Carlos. He conducted until 1967 at La Scala.

Votto taught from 1941 to 1967 at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where, inter alia, Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Muti were his pupils.

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• University teachers ( Trieste )
• University teachers ( Milan )
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• Born 1896
• Died in 1985
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