Francesco Molinari-Pradelli by Annemarie Heinrich

Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (born 4 July 1911

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

; died 8 August 1996 Bologna) was a prominent Italian

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...

conductor. He studied piano and composition at Bologna, and graduated from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome in 1938. He made his debut at La Scala in 1946 and his Covent Garden debut in 1955.''Tosca'', 28 June 1955 (Covent Garden Archive) His account of Puccini's

Turandot ''Turandot'' (; see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, posthumously completed by Franco Alfano in 1926, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. ''Turandot'' best-known aria is " Nessun dorma", ...

with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli is commonly regarded as one of the greatest recordings of that work.

Discography

* Giuseppe Verdi: ''

Simon Boccanegra ''Simon Boccanegra'' () is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play ''Simón Bocanegra'' (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, whose play ''El trovador'' had b ...

'' - (Cetra, 1951) *

Friedrich von Flotow Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow /flo:to/ (27 April 1812 – 24 January 1883) was a German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera ''Martha'', which was popular in the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. Life ...

: ''

Martha Martha (Hebrew: מָרְתָא‎) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness ...

'' - (Cetra, 1953) * Jules Massenet: ''

Werther ''Werther'' is an opera (''drame lyrique'') in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel '' Th ...

'' - (Cetra, 1953) * Giuseppe Verdi: '' La traviata'' - (Decca, 1954) *

Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini ( Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long ...

: '' Manon Lescaut'' - (Decca, 1954) * Gaetano Donizetti: '' L'elisir d'amore'' - (Decca, 1955) * Giuseppe Verdi: '' La forza del destino'' - (Decca, 1955) *

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Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language drama ...

'' - (Decca, 1959) * The Art of the Prima Donna: " Joan Sutherland" - (Decca, 1960) *

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'' - (EMI, 1965) *

: '' La rondine'' - (RCA, 1966)

References

External links

Francesco Molinari-Pradelli – All Music Guide to Classical Music
1911 births 1996 deaths Musicians from Bologna Italian male conductors (music) Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni 20th-century Italian conductors (music) 20th-century Italian male musicians {{italy-conductor-stub