11 Facts About Catterino Cavos

Catterino Cavos played an important role in the history of Russian opera and was the father of Alberto Cavos.

At the age of twelve, Catterino Cavos composed a cantata to celebrate Leopold II's arrival in Venice.

Catterino Cavos was disbanded, but Cavos had fallen in love with St Petersburg, and entered the service of the Imperial Theatres, at first as composer for a French opera troupe with the responsibility to write music for the opera-vaudevilles.

Catterino Cavos served as a professor at the Saint Catherine School, and later occupied the same place in the Smolny Convent.

Catterino Cavos contributed to the second part of the opera tetralogy Rusalka.

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Catterino Cavos acquainted the Russian public with the operas of Luigi Cherubini, Etienne Mehul, Carl Maria von Weber, and others.

Catterino Cavos spent more than forty years in Russia and died in St Petersburg.

Catterino Cavos built the Bolshoi Kamenny into a stronghold of Russian opera.

Catterino Cavos wrote works such as Ilya Bogatyr on heroic national themes with librettos in Russian, and his music was strongly influenced by Russian and Ukrainian folk songs.

Catterino Cavos' wife, Camilla Baglioni, was a coloratura soprano who gained fame as an opera singer in the late 18th century.

Catterino Cavos's descendants included: Alexandre Benois artist and founder of Mir iskusstva, painter Zinaida Serebriakova, sculptor and graphic artist Eugene Lanceray, architect Leon Benois, and actor Sir Peter Ustinov.