Mario Zafred

Mario Zafred studied at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia. The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Employment is recorded with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Zafred began his music studies in Venice under Gian Francesco Malipiero before attending the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. After graduating in 1944 with a diploma in music composition he continued to study further under Ildebrando Pizzetti. In 1947 he moved to Paris where he continued to study composition for two years. After returning to Italy in 1949, Zafred began a successful career as a music critic, working first for L’unità (1949–56) and La Giustizia (1956–63). In 1966 he became artistic director of the Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. He left that house in 1968 to become the artistic director of the Rome Opera where he stayed until he became the director of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, Spoleto in 1974. In 1973 he was appointed president of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where he stayed until he became president of the Sindacato Nazionale Musicisti in 1983. In 1985 he was appointed honorary president of both the Fondazione Arts Academy and the Istituzione Sinfonica di Roma.

Zafred's compositions are published by Ricordi, Boccaccini & Spada and Suvini Zerboni. • Concerto for viola and orchestra (1957) • Elegia in tre tempi for viola and orchestra (1965) • Invenzioni for violin, viola and orchestra (1966) • Sonata in tre tempi for viola solo (1970)