Antonio Votto |
Antonio Votto
Date of birth
1896
Date of death
1985
Profession
conductor
Country
Italy
He has been performing as a conductor since 1923 (La Scala, Manon Lescaut). He was an assistant to Toscanini. In 1928 he performed the opera Nero by Boito in Udine. From 1948 to La Scala, where he worked most of his life. Repeatedly performed with Callas (1954, Spontini’s Vestal; 1955, Norma, etc.). He performed at the Arena di Verona festival in Edinburgh (1957), in 1960 he performed the operas Aida and Don Carlos in Chicago. Carried out a number of outstanding recordings with Callas, among them “Sleepwalker” (soloists N. Monti, Zaccaria, Cossotto), “La Gioconda” Ponchielli (soloists Cappuccili, Cossotto, Vinco), “Un Ballo in Maschera” (soloists Di Stefano, Gobbi, Barbieri, all EMIs).
E. Tsodokov
