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Show Grand Opera Director Dead. Chicago. Cleofonte Campnnini, director di-rector of the Chicago Opera company, died at a hospital on December 19, of heart disease, after a five weeks- illness ill-ness of pneumonia. Cleofonte Campanini Cam-panini was born September 1. 1S00, in rarma, Italy, and first studied music in the conservatoire theiv. Every singer of note in the last thirty yoa-s has sung under his baton. John Me-Coraiack Me-Coraiack and Mary Garden are among ?ho famous stars who were brought out under his-direction. |