Franco Capuana (29 September 1894 – 10 December 1969) was an Italian conductor.
Born in Fano in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, he was the younger brother of mezzo-soprano Maria Capuana. He became associated with the Teatro di San Carlo in 1930 and La Scala in 1937. In 1940 he conducted the premiere of Ghedini's opera La pulce d'oro at the Teatro Carlo Felice. He visited the Royal Opera House in 1946, becoming the first guest conductor of the newly formed Royal Opera, London.
He died at the age of 75 on the conductor's podium in the middle of leading a performance of Rossini's Mosè in Egitto at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.
FrancoCapuana (29 September 1894 – 10 December 1969) was an Italian conductor. Born in Fano in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, he was the younger brother...
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Boulevard, Hollywood, California. Lohengrin (Richard Wagner): conducted by FrancoCapuana, with Giacinto Prandelli and Elena Nicolai. (1947). Performed in Italian...
in Fano in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Capuana was the older sister of conductor FrancoCapuana. She was trained in the art of singing and piano...
Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato, Mario Del Monaco, Giulio Fioravanti FrancoCapuana, Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra and Chorus, Rome CD: Decca Cat: 430256-2...
(Nerissa), Giuseppe Baratti (Lorenzo), Marco Stecchi (Graziano). Conductor: FrancoCapuana. Director: Margherita Wallmann. Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) –...
Ferruccio Tagliavini, Cesare Siepi, Wanda Ruggeri, Anna Maria Anelli FrancoCapuana, RAI Torino Orchestra and Chorus CD: Preiser Records Cat: 20038 1955...
a production at La Fenice. La Scala staged the opera in 1956 with tenor Franco Corelli as Johnson; a role he repeated at the Teatro di San Carlo in 1957...
the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with Giorgio Favaretto and FrancoCapuana. Beginning in 1964, he sang widely in Italy, appearing in Bologna, Venice...
Levine, Carlos Kleiber, Zubin Mehta, Peter Maag, Wolfgang Sawallisch, FrancoCapuana, Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Bruno Bartoletti and...
of modern revivals of Il pirata...headed by Maria Meneghini Callas and Franco Corelli." In a concert performances, Callas repeated her Imogene at New...
short public job in Catania, Sicily, he befriended Giovanni Verga, Luigi Capuana and Luigi Pirandello, and followed their lead in artistically representing...
Comparato. Musicians of the like of Lina Cuscinà, Vincenzo Bellezza, FrancoCapuana, Ottavio Ziino, Nino Rota, Giuseppe Bertelli, Alberto Paoletti, Luigi...
1953 Dolores Wilson, Gianni Poggi, Anselmo Colzani, Silvio Maionica FrancoCapuana, Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera di Milano CD: Preiser Records, Cat:...
Guichandut (Otello), Cesy Broggini (Desdemona), Giuseppe Taddei (Iago) - Orchestra and Chorus of Rai Turin, FrancoCapuana - Warner Fonit (1955) Operissimo.com...
Del Monaco Floriana Cavalli Tito Gobbi Agostino Lazzari Dora Minarchi FrancoCapuana Teatro dell'Opera di Roma CD: Myto Cat: 00267 1960 Jon Vickers Leonie...
Molinari-Pradelli, Arturo Basile, Bruno Bartoletti, FrancoCapuana, Piero Bellugi, Alberto Zedda, Oliviero De Fabritiis, Franco Ferrara, Nino Sanzogno, Peter Maag, Gianandrea...
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, cond. Giuseppe Morelli, VAI Verdi: Aida, cond. FrancoCapuana, VAI Verdi: Otello, cond. Alberto Erede, VAI Kutsch, K.-J.; Riemens...