- Manno Wolf-Ferrari
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Manno Wolf-Ferrari (1911-1994) was an Italian conductor, nephew of composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari.
He studied in Venice and Siena, and quickly established himself as a leading conductor of the Italian opera repertory, which he performed widely in Italy but also abroad, notably in Monte-Carlo, London, Madrid, etc. He can be heard on disc in Il matrimonio segreto, with Alda Noni, Giulietta Simionato, Cesare Valletti, and Sesto Bruscantini and in I Lombardi alla prima crociata with Maria Vitale and Gustavo Gallo.
Sources
- Le guide de l'opéra, Roland Mancini & Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (Fayard, 1996), ISBN 2-213-59567-4
See also: Wolf-FerrariCategories:- 1876 births
- 1948 deaths
- Italian conductors (music)
- People from Venice (city)
- Italian people of German descent
- Opera biography stubs
- Italian people stubs
- European conductor (music) stubs
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