Attilio Enrico Paparella, known professionally as Attilio Parelli (31 May 1874 - 26 December 1944) was an Italian conductor and composer.

His most important opera is I dispettosi amanti (The Mischievous Lover), which debuted in March 1912 at the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia.

Parelli was born in Monteleone d'Orvieto

Monteleone d'Orvieto

Monteleone d'Orvieto is a comune in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 35 km southwest of Perugia and about 60 km northwest of Terni.-History:...

 in 1874. He studied from 1891 to 1899 with Cesare de Sanctis at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

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 in Rome

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. He started his work as a conductor in Italy and Paris, then moved to the United States

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He married his student Isolina Rapalli. They had no children.

From 1906 he collaborated with Cleofonte Campanini

Cleofonte Campanini

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 at the Manhattan Opera House

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 and the Chicago Grand Opera Company

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In 1925 he returned to Italy and became artistic director of the newly formed Unione Radiofonica Italiana (Italian Radio Union; now RAI

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) in Milan

Milan

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Parelli died in Monteleone d'Orvieto on 26 December 1944 and rests in the monumental cemetery of his birthplace.

Sources

• Biancamaria Brumana, Il fondo musicale Attilio Parelli - Catalogo
• Angela Ciampani Parelli - Tesi, Terni
  Terni
  Terni is a city in southern Umbria, central Italy, capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is 104 km N of Rome, 36 km NW of Rieti, and 29 km S of Spoleto.-History:...
  
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• Luigi Lemmi, La storia di Monteleone
• Alessandro Gilleri, Nozioni di organizzazione ed economia dello spettacolo