Tito Capobianco

Tito Capobianco

Tito Capobianco (born August 28, 1931, in La Plata, Argentina) is a noted stage director of opera, and is former Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Opera, San Diego Opera and Pittsburgh Opera. He made his official debut with "Aïda", at the Teatro Argentino, La Plata, in 1953. After working at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, he made his American debut, with "Carmen" (starring Jean Madeira), at the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, in 1964. He made his New York City Opera debut in 1965, with "Les contes d'Hoffmann", with Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle in the cast.

Capobianco was to become one of the City Opera's important directors, mounting ground-breaking productions including "Don Rodrigo" (with Plácido Domingo), "Giulio Cesare" (which brought Sills to preëminence), "Le coq d'or", "Manon", "Mefistofele" (with Treigle in his greatest role), "Lucia di Lammermoor", "Roberto Devereux", "Maria Stuarda", "Les contes d'Hoffmann", "Anna Bolena", "I puritani", "Il turco in Italia" and the world premiere of Menotti's "La loca".

Capobianco made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1978, with "Thaïs", featuring Sills, and returned to that theatre for "Simon Boccanegra" in 1984, with Sherrill Milnes in the title role.

Videography

* Donizetti: "Roberto Devereux" (Sills, Marsee, J.Alexander, Fredricks; Rudel, 1975) [live] VAI
* Verdi: "La traviata" (Sills, H.Price, Fredricks; Rudel, 1976) [live] VAI
* Massenet: "Manon" (Sills, H.Price, Fredricks, Ramey; Rudel, 1977) [live] Paramount
* Verdi: "Simon Boccanegra" (Tomowa-Sintow, Milnes, Plishka; Levine, 1984) [live] Deutsche Grammophon

References

* "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera", by John Warrack & Ewan West, Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-280028-0

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIDyxdc6Iw8] YouTube: An excerpt from Tito Capobianco's production of "Le coq d'or", with Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle (1971).


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