Renato Fasano

Renato Fasano (born August 21, 1902 in Naples , † August 3, 1979 in Rome ) was an Italian conductor and musicologist who was particularly concerned with the Italian music of the 18th century.

After studying in his native Naples, he founded the chamber orchestra Collegium Musicum Italicum in 1941 , which was later renamed I Virtuosi di Roma . This small orchestra helped make Italian baroque music known. He has conducted works by the composers Corelli , Vivaldi , Pergolesi , Baldassarre Galuppi , Alessandro Marcello and Giovanni Paisiello all over Europe . In 1957 he also founded the Piccolo Teatro Musicale Italiano .

In 1971 he conducted the Virtuosi di Roma Chamber Orchestra with the cellist Radu Aldulescu on a famous concert tour through South Africa.

Fasano's best known recording (for RCA Records ) is that of a non-Italian opera, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice , starring Shirley Verrett , Anna Moffo and Judith Raskin.

literature

Le guide de l'opéra , Roland Mancini & Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, Fayard, 1986.

Individual evidence

↑ Italians on the Leningrad Stage / Soviet Music, 1966, No. 7. 1966, accessed on September 22, 2019 .
↑ photographs. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fasano, Renato
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian conductor and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naples
DATE OF DEATH	3rd August 1979
Place of death	Rome

[1] Italians on the Leningrad Stage / Soviet Music, 1966, No. 7. 1966, accessed on September 22, 2019 .

[2] photographs. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .