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Lyric founder Carol Fox commissioned Krzysztof Penderecki's ''Paradise Lost" for the U.S. bicentennial in 1976, but the work was not completed until two years later. Bartoletti conducted the world premiere on Nov. 29, 1978. The Lyric's general director, Anthony Freud, recalled on Sunday how Bartoletti nurtured the fledging company when he first joined.
''By the time he retired as artistic director in 1999, Lyric was recognized around the world as one of the great opera companies," Freud said in a statement. Bartoletti also conducted at La Scala , working with the legendary Milan opera house for 13 productions, starting in 1958. He was a repeat guest at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. Among the more notable albums with Bartoletti as maestro was a recording of Verdi's
''Un Ballo in Maschera" with Renata Tebaldi and Luciano Pavarotti. A wake was scheduled for Monday in the foyer of Florence's Teatro Comunale, to be followed by a funeral in Sesto Fiorentino, a Florence suburb where the maestro was born, on June 10, 1926. Bartoletti did his music studies at Florence's conservatory. The Tuscan capital conferred honorary citizenship on him in 2009.
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