{{Short description|Italian music conductor (1875–1932)}} '''Agide Jacchia''' (5 January 1875 – 29 November 1932<ref name=ce>[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/montreal-opera-companycompagnie-dopera-de-montreal-emc/ "Montreal Opera Company/Compagnie d'opéra de Montréal" ]. ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822203344/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002432 |date=August 22, 2007 }}</ref>) was an Italian orchestral director.<ref>{{cite book|title=Music News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pGhFAQAAMAAJ|volume=13|year=1921|issue = 2|publisher=Charles E. Watt|page=18}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Born in Lugo di Romagna, Jacchia studied at the Conservatory of Parma from 1886 to 1891 and at the Liceo Musicale Rossini in Pesaro from 1891 to 1898.<ref name=bdm>{{bdm|430–31}}</ref> He won prizes for flute (1896), conducting (1897), and composition (1898).<ref name=bdm/>
==Career== Jacchia debuted as conductor at the Teatro Grande in Brescia on 26 December 1898.<ref name=bdm/> Later he conducted at T. Communale, Ferrara (1899–1900) and La Fenice, Venice (1901).<ref name=bdm/> In 1902 he accompanied Pietro Mascagni on his American tour.<ref name=bdm/> On his return to Italy he conducted at the Teatro Lirico in Milan (1903), at the Teatro Regio, Livorno (1904), and at Siena (1905–06).<ref name=bdm/> From 1907 to 1909 he was conductor of the Milan Opera Company on its tour in the United States.<ref name=bdm/> From 1910 to 1913, he was conductor of the Montreal Opera Company,<ref name=ce/> and in 1914 of the Century Opera Company,<ref name=bdm/> in which capacity he led the premiere of Jane Van Etten's ''Guido Ferranti'' in 1914.<ref name="GriffelBlock1999">{{cite book|author1=Margaret Ross Griffel|author-link=Margaret Ross Griffel|author2=Adrienne Fried Block|title=Operas in English: A Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxIKAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-25310-2}}</ref> Later he would go on to conduct the Boston Pops.<ref name=bdm/><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1919/06/01/archives/french-airs-for-boston.html "FRENCH AIRS FOR BOSTON."]. ''The New York Times'', June 01, 1919</ref> Jacchia was president of the Boston Conservatory from 1920 until his death in 1932.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}
Agide Jacchia was married to Italian opera singer Ester Ferrabini, from 1911 until he died in 1932. They had a daughter, Elsa.<ref name="Shadows">Jim McPherson, "Out of the Shadows: Ester Ferrabini" '' Opera Quarterly'' 17(1)(Winter 2001): 28–42.</ref>
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