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Michael Costa

Michael Costa is recorded as having received Knight Bachelor. Michael Costa was born in 1808 at Naples. Costa died in 1884 at Hove.

Also recorded as Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa

Michael Costa

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Michael Costa (1808–1884), Italian-born conductor and composer who was chief musical conductor at the Royal Italian Opera (now the Royal Opera House) in London from 1847 to 1868

Photographer not identified · User scan of Rosenthal, Harold (1958). Two Centuries of Opera at Covent Garden, after p. 96. London: Putnam. OCLC 593682 and 503687870. · Public domain

Born
1808 · Naples.
Died
1884 · Hove.
Nationality
Kingdom of Italy · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupation
composer · conductor
Fields
opera
Honours
Knight Bachelor
Languages
English

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Michael Costa is recorded as having received Knight Bachelor. Michael Costa was born in 1808 at Naples. Costa died in 1884 at Hove.

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