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Joseph Rescigno (born October 8, 1945) is an American conductor best known for his work in opera in North America and Europe. Since 1981, he has served as Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Florentine Opera Company of Milwaukee, WI. He also served as Artistic Director of l'Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, in Quebec, Canada, for four seasons. His commitment to young musicians and singers returns him each year to La Musica Lirica, a summer program for singers in Northern Italy, where he has been Music Director since 2005.〔"Making a Lasting Career" by Brian Manternach, ''Classical Singer'', August 2008, Pages 24ff.〕, 〔"Lasciate che i giovani..." by Marco del Vaglio, ''Oggi 7'', February 3, 2013, Page 7.〕 In addition, he serves on the advisory committee of the Olga Forrai Foundation, which supports the training, education, and career development of singers and conductors.〔Olga Forrai was a soprano of Hungarian birth and formed her foundation with Peter Herman Adler in 1981: (Olga Forrai Foundation ).〕 And he and the Florentine Opera Company have been chosen to mentor Solti Foundation U.S. Award recipients as part of the Foundation's residency project (newly expanded to opera) since the 2014–2015 season. == Early Years == Born October 8, 1945 in Flushing, Queens, Rescigno is the eldest of three siblings. His father, also Joseph Rescigno, was a medical doctor, and his mother, Leona Reese Llewellyn, was a singer who met her future husband while playing piano rehearsals for his brother, Nicola Rescigno.〔, 〔"Another Rescigno Conducts Connecticut Opera Chorus" by Ruthanne Devlin, ''The Hartford Times'', April 21, 1971, Page 15 E.〕, Maestro Joseph Rescigno's first music teachers were his mother and his paternal grandfather, Joseph Rescigno, who played trumpet for the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera as well as elsewhere in New York for several decades before World War II. So Maestro Joseph Rescigno was immersed in the language and culture of musicians from the day he was born. He counts about 10 musicians in the extended Rescigno clan, mostly in his grandfather's generation. The result was that he was sight-singing as a toddler.〔, 〔"Spécial du chef" by Dominique Olivier, ''Voir'', March 14–20, 1996, Page 45.〕 While never his nephew's teacher in a formal sense, Nicola Rescigno was a significant influence and mentor. Being able to attend his uncle's rehearsals and performances in Chicago furthered the younger musician's education. It was there, in 1955, that he first watched the complex undertaking of assembling an opera production (and first heard Maria Callas in a piano rehearsal with his uncle conducting ''Il trovatore''). As a teenager, he graduated to playing rehearsal piano for his uncle and others like Gianandrea Gavazzeni. Rescigno attended a neighborhood parochial school, St. Mary's Nativity, and studied piano nearby with Prof. Mario Miccu, under whose baton he played Mozart's Concerto in A major, No. 23 (first movement) at Manhattan's Town Hall at age 9. He went on to military high school in Manhattan (Xavier High School) and later began studying piano with Ada Kopetz-Korf, with whom he would continue studying through college and graduate school.〔Ada Kopetz-Korf's career had included playing with such conductors as Leopold Stokowski, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Wilfrid Pelletier; touring the United States and Canada as a part of the Philharmonic Piano Quartet; and recording for Columbia Records. See (the Musicians Club of New York ) and (The Bohemians ), and the (Philharmonic Piano Quartet ).〕 As a Fordham University freshman, Rescigno made his New York recital debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in a program of Beethoven's piano sonatas.〔Specifically, Nos. 7, 8, 15, and 21.〕 Writing in the ''New York Herald Tribune'', Judith Robison described Rescigno's "emotional depth and flair for pathos" in a review entitled "A True Bard's Strong Debut."〔"A True Bard's Strong Debut," by Judith Robison, in ''New York Herald Tribune'', April 15, 1964, Page 20.〕 He earned a bachelor's degree in modern languages and philosophy at Fordham, graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. And his college career included a year in Rome studying at the Gregorianum and the conservatory at Santa Cecilia as well as privately with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Alberto Neuman. His senior honors thesis compared the character of Falstaff in Giuseppe Verdi's opera of the same name to the Falstaff character that appears in three of William Shakespeare's plays. In 1969, Rescigno received his master's degree in piano from the Manhattan School of Music.〔The program of his master's recital included works by Soler, Beethoven, Debussy, and Mussorgsky.〕 There, he also studied composition and conducting with Nicolas Flagello and met colleague and mentor Anton Coppola. Rescigno also came to know and admire Jonel Perlea, Hugh Ross, and soprano Ellen Repp,〔Ellen Repp was an American mezzo-soprano of Swedish descent. She sang in many major opera houses and taught singers who have gone on to major careers. Reviews from the 1930s and 1940s may be found at the ''New York Times'' web site.〕 among others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Rescigno」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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