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Arturo Basile
Arturo Basile (January 16, 1914 – May 21, 1968) was an Italian conductor. He was known mostly for his work in the Italian operatic repertoire, especially Puccini and Verdi.
Basile was born in Syracuse, Sicily. When he was 12, he studied the oboe at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin, with Franco Alfano serving as music director at the time. His teachers included Giorgio Federico Ghedini. After graduating in 1933, he took up conducting, and was leading the Orchestra Sinfonica dell
), Sieglinde, Herbert von Karajan, 1951, EMI
- "Die Walküre" (Richard Wagner), Sieglinde, Wilhelm Furtwängler, 1954, EMI
- "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (Richard Strauss), Kaiserin, Karl Böhm, 1955, Decca
- "Fidelio" (Ludwig van Beethoven), Leonore, Ferenc Fricsay, 1957, Deutsche Grammophon
- "Operatic Arias", Arturo Basile, 1958, RCA Victor
- "Ariadne auf Naxos" (Richard Strauss), Prima Donna/