Arnaldo Conti (

Parma Parma (; ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmesan, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,986 inhabitants as of 2025, ...

, 22 February 1855 —

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, 24 March 1919) was an Italian conductor of opera. He spent much of his life on tour in opera houses around the world, directing performances with singers such as

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Marcella Sembrich Prakseda Marcelina Kochańska (February 15, 1858 – January 11, 1935), known professionally as Marcella Sembrich, was a Polish dramatic coloratura soprano. She is known for her extensive range of two and a half octaves, precise intonation, ch ...

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Riccardo Stracciari Riccardo Stracciari (June 26, 1875 – October 10, 1955) was a leading Italian baritone. His repertoire consisted mainly of Italian operatic works, with Rossini's Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto becoming his signature roles during a long and disti ...

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and

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and Edouard de Reszke. He seems not to have sought publicity; he rarely ventured into concert hall, or the recording studio unlike his younger, fellow Parma-born conductors,

Cleofonte Campanini 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 ...

and

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. He was at various times conductor at the Opéra-Italien (at the Théâtre-Italien), Paris; the

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, Italy; the

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, Madrid; the Teatro Solis, Montevideo; the touring

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(originally from the

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, Naples) then in the US. From 1909-13 he conducted the

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at the

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Family life

He married the soprano Erina Borlinetto.

References

;Notes ;Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Conti, Arnaldo 1855 births 1919 deaths Italian male conductors (music) Musicians from Parma 20th-century Italian conductors (music) 20th-century Italian male musicians