Antonio Spadavecchia
Illustration — Antonio Spadavecchia Antonio Emmanuelovich Spadavecchia (born in Odessa on 3 June 1907 – died in Moscow on 7 February 1988) was a Soviet composer of Italian descent. He was awarded National Artist of the RSFSR in 1977. He was promoted in cultural exchanges with other socialist countries after the Second World War, and his opera, The Gadfly, was the second Russian opera after Eugene Onegin to be performed at the Hanoi Opera in the 1960s.
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Antonio Spadavecchia
- Born
- 1907 · Odesa.
- Died
- 1988 · Moscow.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Occupation
- composer
- Fields
- opera
- Education
- Moscow Conservatory
- Honours
- People's Artist of the RSFSR · Order of the Badge of Honour · Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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Illustration — Antonio Spadavecchia Antonio Emmanuelovich Spadavecchia (born in Odessa on 3 June 1907 – died in Moscow on 7 February 1988) was a Soviet composer of Italian descent. He was awarded National Artist of the RSFSR in 1977. He was promoted in cultural exchanges with other socialist countries after the Second World War, and his opera, The Gadfly, was the second Russian opera after Eugene Onegin to be performed at the Hanoi Opera in the 1960s.
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Antonio Spadavecchia died at Moscow.
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Antonio Spadavecchia studied at Moscow Conservatory. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Distinctions recorded are People's Artist of the RSFSR, Order of the Badge of Honour and Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• Daniil Shtoda (tenor) recorded an aria from The Gadfly in a recital for Delos Records in 2005.
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Antonio Spadavecchia received People's Artist of the RSFSR, Order of the Badge of Honour and Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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- 1.Dans le calendrier julien en vigueur en Russie à l'époque.
- 2.centro studi baresi
- 3.Encyclopédie musicale, réd. Iouri Keldych, tome V, Simon Heyller, ill. Grande Encyclopédie soviétique, 1981
- 4.Опера «Овод».
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