, 9 May 1907 – Rome

Rome

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, 24 February 1975) was an Italian composer and for many years artistic director of the Chicago Lyric Opera.

From 1936 he was superintendent of the Arena di Verona and then from 1950 the Teatro Comunale of Bologna

Teatro Comunale di Bologna

The Teatro Comunale di Bologna is an opera house in Bologna, Italy, and is one of the most important opera venues in Italy. Typically, it presents eight operas with six performances during its November to April season....

. In 1958 he left Italy for Chicago

Chicago

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 to work for Carol Fox

Carol Fox (Chicago opera)

Carol Fox was, at the age of 28, the first impresario of the Chicago Lyric Opera and credited with restoring Chicago's pre-Depression operatic glory....

 and remained employed there till his death in Rome at the age of 67.

Works, editions, recordings

• theatre music for the play Fiorenza by Sem Benelli
  Sem Benelli
  Sem Benelli was an Italian playwright and librettist who provided the texts for several noted Italian operas, including Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re and L'incantesimo, and Umberto Giordano's La cena delle beffe. He was a native of Prato....
  
  
• chamber music - Pastorale della trincea 1933
• Hungaria for choir and orchestra

Operas

• Corradino lo svevo on the life of Conradin
  Conradin
  Conrad , called the Younger or the Boy, but usually known by the diminutive Conradin , was the Duke of Swabia , King of Jerusalem , and King of Sicily .-Early childhood:Conradin was born in Wolfstein, Bavaria, to Conrad...
  
  the Swabian, to a libretto by the Veronese writer Arturo Rossato (1882–1942) - premiere Verona 1931.
• Lancillotto del Lago premiere Bergamo 1938