R.I.P 〓 Anton Coppola, American conductor・composer

2020/03/10

Anton Coppola of the United States died on March 9 at his home in Manhattan, New York. He mainly conducts Italian opera at an opera company in the United States. He was the founder of Opera Tampa in Central Florida and was artistic director until 2012.

He is the uncle of film director Francis Ford Coppola.

He was born in an Italian immigrant family and grew up in East Harlem, New York. His uncle is the owner of a popular barber shop, and he was taken by an uncle to an opera from an early age. At the age of eight, he joined the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Choir.

During World War II, he served as bandmaster of the military band and conductor of the music hall.

After the war, he was the director of the orchestra and opera department at the Manhattan School of Music, and was the music director for several Broadway theaters in the 1950s and 1960s.

He debuted at the New York City Opera in 1965 and directed the world premiere of Jack Bison’s opera “Lizzie Borden”. In 1970 he also directed the world premiere of Carlyle Floyd’s “Of Mice and Men” at the Seattle Opera.

He founded Opera Tampa in 1996. Until he retired in 2012, he stood on the podium and in 2001 premiered his own opera “Sacco and Vanzetti”.

In 2004 he directed the Milano Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra on the aria album by Soprano singer Angela Gheorghiu.

Photo:Opera Tampa


How about this ?

  1. TOKYO 〓 Tokyo Symphony Orchestra resumes concert

  2. LOS ANGELES 〓 Bernstein’s life with starring Gyllenhaal will be filmed

  3. Bonn Beethoven festival 〓 Festival 2018 is over, next year’s theme is “moonlight”

  4. BARCELONA 〓 Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National OrchestraConcert announced schedule of 2018/2019 season

  5. SANT’AGATA 〓 Italian government acquires Verdi’s former residence at risk of auction, and the opera world joins forces in a charity campaign.

  6. HAMBURG 〓 Hamburger Symphoniker welcomes Argerich and creates the “June Music Festival”

  7. NEW YORK 〓 The board of directors of the New York City Opera has dismissed the general director, and has appointed the music director and principal conductor, Constantine Orbelian, as his successor.

  8. KYOTO 〓 City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra Extends Contract with Permanent Conductor Nodoka Okizawa

  9. LOS ANGELES 〓 Los Angeles Philharmonic announces cancellation of 2020/2021 season due to spread of new coronavirus

  10. R.I.P 〓 Carlisle Floyd(95)American Composer

  11. NEW YORK 〓 Tan Dun will be appointed head of Bard College Conservatory of Music

  12. HONG KONG 〓 Tarmo Peltokoski to succeed Jaap van Zweden as music director of Hong Kong Philharmonic

  13. MOSCOW 〓 The Juries of the “woodwind instrument Division” of the Tchaikovsky International Competition were announced

  14. PARIS 〓 Dutoit will return to the French music scene

  15. OTSU 〓 Biwako Hall has decided to perform Wagner’s “Twilight of the Gods” without audience

  1. No comments yet.

  1. No trackbacks yet.