An Oral History with Joseph Rescigno

On January 18th, 2022, conductor Joseph Rescigno sat down with OPERA America's President/CEO Marc A. Scorca for a conversation about opera and their life.
Joseph Rescigno has conducted operas, choral works, symphonies, and concertos at more than 50 companies around the world. He was the artistic director and principal conductor of Florentine Opera Company for 38 seasons, beginning in 1981. He has served as music director of La Music Lirica, a summer program for singers in Northern Italy, since 2005. Rescigno is the author of Conducting Opera: Where Theater Meets Music, published in 2020.
This interview was originally recorded on January 18th, 2021.
The Oral History Project is supported by the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation.
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