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Nicola Rescigno, Helped Found Opera Companies in Chicago and Dallas Dies

August 8, 2008

Nicola Rescigno, a conductor who seized advantage of a new interest in opera after World War II and helped found two major American opera companies, died on Monday in Viterbo, Italy. He was 92. He died in a hospital awaiting surgery after falling and breaking his femur about a week ago, Jeanne Rescigno, wife of the ...