13 Facts About Franco Faccio

Francesco Antonio Faccio was an Italian composer and conductor.

Franco Faccio returned to Milan to write his first opera, I profughi fiamminghi, which was based on a text by Emilio Praga and written for La Scala where it was presented on 11 November 1863.

Franco Faccio left Italy for two years and "honed his skills as an opera conductor in Scandinavia [but] secured a post at the Teatro Carcano on his return to Milan in the Autumn of 1868".

Franco Faccio taught composition at the Milan Conservatory for the following ten years.

Franco Faccio helped to launch Puccini's career, conducting his graduation piece from the Milan Conservatory, Capriccio sinfonico, in 1884.

When Victor Maurel was planning to revive the Theatre-Italien company at the Theatre des Nations in Paris in 1883, it was hoped that Franco Faccio would be chief conductor.

Franco Faccio was hoping for not less than 100,000 francs.

However, the managers at La Scala, the Corti brothers, agreed a new contract with Franco Faccio which kept him in Milan.

Franco Faccio continued to have an active conducting career in several Italian cities, as well as abroad where Otello was given its premiere.

Franco Faccio continued to compose after the premiere of Amleto, writing among other things a "Quartetto".

In 1874 a symphony Franco Faccio had composed as early as 1859 was finally published, in piano duet reduction, by Ricordi.

In 1866 both Boito and Franco Faccio joined the Italian army to fight alongside Garibaldi.

The disastrous premiere of Boito's Mefistofele at La Scala in 1868 added to the growing necessity of a compositional success by Boito and Franco Faccio, self-appointed representatives of the "Music of the future" in Italy.