Anton Coppola

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Antonio Coppola (born March 21, 1917) is an American opera conductor and composer. He is the uncle of film director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the grand-uncle of Nicolas Cage, Sofia Coppola, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Schwartzman, and is the younger brother of American composer and musician Carmine Coppola. Coppola started his career at the age of eight with the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus. At the age of 9 he was in the Met's debut of Turandot. He served as an army bandmaster during World War II, conductor at Radio City Music Hall and director of both the Symphony and Opera Departments at the Manhattan School of Music. He earned a bachelor's degree (1964) and a master's degree (1965) in composition from Manhattan School of Music and received honorary Doctorates from the University of Tampa and Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Coppola's first marriage was to Marion Jane Miller, a ballet dancer, with whom he had one child, Susan Marion Coppola (1943–2008). After their divorce, he wed Almarinda Drago, also a ballet dancer, with whom he had two children, Lucia and Bruno Coppola. He turned 100 in March 2017. Among his works are a violin concerto, a symphony, and Sacco and Vanzetti, an opera in both Italian and English about immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti. In the 1950s and 1960s, Coppola was the musical director of six Broadway musicals, including Silk Stockings, Bravo Giovanni and The Boy Friend. He conducted two

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Bram Stoker's Dracula: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

"Bram Stoker's Dracula"

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Puccini: Opera Arias

Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Bram Stoker's Dracula (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Bande Originale du film "Dracula" (1992)

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Bram Stoker's Dracula - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Bram Stoker's Dracula (Original Soundtrack)

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The Boy Friend

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Angela Gheorghiu: Puccini CD & DVD

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Instrumental Lounge

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Dracula Soundtrack

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