Cleofonte Campanini (1 September 1860 – 19 December 1919) was an Italian conductor and violinist. As a teenager he had a brief but successful career as a concert violinist in Italy and in theaters in Berlin and London. He abandoned the violin in favor of pursuing a career as a conductor, making his conducting debut in 1880 at the age of 20. He established himself as an opera conductor in Parma in the early 1880s, conducting several works which starred his brother, the tenor Italo Campanini.
In 1883 Campanini was appointed assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for that company's inaugural season. He went on to establish himself as a leading opera conductor at theaters internationally, notably working on the conducting staffs of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (1888–1903) and La Scala (1903–1905), and appearing as a guest conductor at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Liceu, and the Teatro Colón among other opera houses. From 1906 until March 1909 he was artistic director of the Manhattan Opera Company. In November 1909 he was appointed was appointed the music director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company and then its successor, the Chicago Opera Association. He is remembered for conducting the world premieres of several operas which have become part of the standard opera repertory, including the premieres of Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur at the Teatro Lirico in 1902 and Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly at La Scala in 1904. He was married to the soprano Eva Tetrazzini.
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1917) Gustav Mahler, conductor and composer (d. 1911) September 1 – CleofonteCampanini, conductor (d. 1919) September 18 – Alberto Franchetti, opera composer...
Italian and were conducted either by music director Auguste Vianesi or CleofonteCampanini (the tenor Italo's brother).[citation needed] The company performed...
before moving to the United States. From 1906 he collaborated with CleofonteCampanini at the Manhattan Opera House and the Chicago Grand Opera Company...
recording studio unlike his younger, fellow Parma-born conductors, CleofonteCampanini and Arturo Toscanini. He was at various times conductor at the Opéra-Italien...
these companies, he became a close friend and associate of conductor CleofonteCampanini. In 1911, he joined the conducting staff at the Metropolitan Opera...
Mancinelli, Lorenzo Perosi, Giuseppe Martucci, Amilcare Zanella, CleofonteCampanini, Franco Faccio, Guido Alberto Fano, Pio Ferrari, Edoardo Mascheroni...
and opera producer Oscar Hammerstein together with the conductor CleofonteCampanini and the opera singers Mario Sammarco, Giuseppe Taccani and Fernando...
Role Voice type Premiere cast, 16 May 1886 (Conductor: CleofonteCampanini) Il Principe Cristiano d'Orèbro bass Osvaldo Bottero Lidia, his daughter soprano...
Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company (PCGOC) with conductor CleofonteCampanini and a cast that included tenor Amedeo Bassi as Gennaro, Louise Berat...
singing Tosca (in 1904 with Emma Eames and Emilio De Marchi, conductor CleofonteCampanini, and in 1910, with Farrar and Beyle, the young and later-prominent...
singers of the mid-19th century. Marchisio brought Raisa in 1912 to CleofonteCampanini, a leading operatic conductor and impresario. After the audition...
principal conductor was CleofonteCampanini, while the general manager and chief underwriter was Harold F. McCormick. When Campanini died in December 1919...
American Pavlova. When Pavley and Oukrainsky were hired by Maestro CleofonteCampanini as principal soloists in Chicago Opera Association productions, this...
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December 3, 1906, with a performance of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma; CleofonteCampanini served as the artistic director. Many of the greatest opera stars...
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