Cesare Sodero

Cesare Sodero (August 2, 1886 – December 16, 1947[1]) was an Italian conductor who spent much of his career working in the United States.

[2] He contracted and conducted a wide variety of instrumental ensembles for Edison, principally focusing on band and orchestra selections.

Sodero also conducted the accompaniments for most of the operatic records made at Edison between 1915 and 1925, working with singers including tenor Jacques Urlus and soprano Claudia Muzio.

He achieved significance as a pioneer in the broadcast of opera, directing a series of fifty-three works in tabloid form for NBC in 1926.

Having worked for most of his career in the relatively "invisible" fields of recording and radio, Sodero was surprisingly appointed as the principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera's Italian wing in 1942 on account of Ettore Panizza's deciding to remain in Argentina after the United States' entry into World War II.