Bruno Bartoletti Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Bruno Bartoletti (Sesto Fiorentino, 10 June 1926 – Florence, 9 June 2013) was an Italian operatic conductor. His active international career lasted from 1953 to 2007, where he specialized in the Italian repertory and contemporary works. He was particularly noted for his 51-year association with Lyric Opera of Chicago, as co-artistic director, artistic director, principal conductor, and artistic director emeritus. He also served as Artistic Director of both the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (1965–1973) and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1985–1991), and as principal conductor of the Danish Royal Opera (1957–1960), in addition to frequent work as a guest conductor at various major opera houses.
[remarking on jet-set conductors, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune] I cannot make music like my colleagues do, rushing from this theater to that theater all over the world, conducting a different opera every week. To present opera beautifully takes time. And love.
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Opera is sometimes messy. That's because opera is life.
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He expanded the Lyric Opera's repertoire to include a range of modern works, helping the Midwestern company establish an international reputation for its musical daring.
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In 1956, the fledgling Lyric Opera of Chicago needed a conductor to replace the ailing Tullio Serafin in several performances. Tito Gobbi, the acclaimed Italian baritone, recommended the young Mr. Bartoletti, who was overseas. He flew across the Atlantic to make a hastily-planned U.S. debut, conducting Verdi's "Il Trovatore". It would be the first of nearly 600 performances of 55 operas with the Lyric Opera over the next five decades.
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He studied the flute and piano before pursuing conducting as his career.
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Italian conductor.
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Death in Venice
2010
Video conductor
Giovanna d'Arco
2008
TV Movie conductor
Macbeth
2006
TV Movie conductor
La Bohème
2003
TV Movie conductor
Evgeniy Onegin
1984
TV Movie conductor
La gazza ladra
1984
TV Movie conductor
La Gioconda
1979
TV Movie conductor
Tosca
1976
TV Movie conductor
Andrea Chénier
1973
TV Movie conductor
Donizetti: Kageki 'Lucia' Zenkyoku
1967
TV Movie conductor
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Quartet
2012
performer: "Ah! qual colpo in aspettato!"
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Death in Venice
2010
Video
Himself - Conductor
Giovanna d'Arco
2008
TV Movie
Himself - Conductor
Macbeth
2006
TV Movie
Himself - Direttore
La Bohème
2003
TV Movie
Himself - Direttore
Rigoletto
1991
TV Movie
Himself - Conductor
Donizetti: Kageki 'Lucia' Zenkyoku
1967
TV Movie
Himself - Conductor
Known for movies
La Gioconda (1979) as Music Department
Giovanna d'Arco (2008) as Music Department
Donizetti: Kageki 'Lucia' Zenkyoku (1967) as Music Department
$19 Million