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ALBUMRimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 - Mussorgsky: Night on Bald MountainAntonio Pappano & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Albums by Antonio Pappano
ALBUMRimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 - Mussorgsky: Night on Bald MountainAntonio Pappano & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
ALBUMBeethoven: Symphony No. 7 - Kendall: O Flower of FireAntonio Pappano & London Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMPuccini: TurandotAntonio Pappano, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Ermonela Jaho, Sondra Radvanovsky & Jonas Kaufmann
ALBUMSaint-Saëns: Karneval der TiereAntonio Pappano, Martha Argerich & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
ALBUMInsieme - Opera DuetsJonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Pappano & Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome
ALBUMRossini: Messa di GloriaCoro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Antonio Pappano
ALBUMBerlioz: Requiem, Op. 5Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Antonio Pappano, Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Javier Camarena
ALBUM12 StradivariJanine Jansen & Antonio Pappano
ALBUMStrauss: Ein Heldenleben & BurleskeAntonio Pappano, Orchestra dell'Academia nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Bertrand Chamayou
ALBUMVaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6Antonio Pappano & London Symphony Orchestra
Antonio Pappano's Popular Music Videos
Catalani: La Wally / Act 1, "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana"
Anna Netrebko, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Antonio Pappano
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad: I. "Loveliest of Trees"
Antonio Pappano & Ian Bostridge
Main Theme (From "Cinema Paradiso")
Alexandre Tharaud, Antonio Pappano & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda, Act 3: "Deh! Tu di un umile"
Andrii Ganchuk, Antonio Pappano, Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Diana Damrau, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Sara Rocchi
Verdi: Don Carlos "Dieu, tu semas dans nos âmes" (Excerpt)
Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Pappano & Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome
Fidelio: Op.72: Overture
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House & Antonio Pappano
La traviata, Act I: 'Brindisi' - Libiamo ne' lieti calici
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Joseph Calleja & Renée Fleming
Rusalka B. 203, Op. 114: "Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém" ("Song to the Moon")
The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano & Kristine Opolais
Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act I: Sinfonia
The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House & Antonio Pappano
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act I: "Largo al factotum”
The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano & Vito Priante
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The lively British-Italian conductor illuminates operatic masterworks.
Artist Biography
Antonio Pappano, a British Italian conductor with broad expertise in opera, joined the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London as Music Director in 2002. Pappano was born in 1959 in Epping, UK, to working-class Italian parents. He lived in public housing in London before moving at age 13 to Connecticut, where his mother cleaned offices and father worked in restaurants and taught singing. Young Tony played the piano for his father’s students and, at age 21, began work as a rehearsal pianist for New York City Opera. After apprenticing with conductor Daniel Barenboim, Pappano made his conducting debut in 1987 with the Norwegian National Opera’s production of La Bohème (1896). By 1990, he became the company’s Music Director before spending a decade at the helm of La Monnaie in Brussels. Unflashy but energetic, Pappano has a particular understanding of singers. Crediting his work ethic to his family’s immigrant roots and determination, in addition to his London post, he became Music Director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome. Pappano received a knighthood in 2012.
Hometown
Epping, Essex, England
Genre
Classical