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Italian conductor.
"Maestro Riccardo Bottino studied at the Paganini Conservatoire in Genoa, where he graduated in composition. Then he obtained the Diploma in Pianoforte at the Conservatoire of Palma, and the highest Diploma for Choral Singing at the Conservatoire in Milan.
In 1935 and 1936 he was orchestral conductor for the synchronisation of films in Paris, and Maestro at the Centro Sperimentale Lirico in Rome.
Recently he has been Chorus Master in all the principal cities in Italy and abroad. In Italy there is not a town in which he is not known. Abroad he has conducted orchestras and chorus in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany in the State Theatre), France and Belgium."
Source OperaScotland programme for Italian Opera Tour (1953). London: Eugene Iskoldoff Productions