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ANTONIO, an Italian operatic baritone, born at Naples, Italy, in 1866. He studied under Madame Paganini and made his first appearance at the Teatro Reale, Malta, in 1889. After singing for 10 years on the stages of many Italian theaters, as well as in Madrid, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, and South America, he sang in "Don Giovanni" in London, in 1899, under the management of Maurice Grau, who immediately engaged him for his New York Metropolitan Opera Company. Since then he has appeared regularly each season in the United States, where he acquired a high reputation and where he sang leading parts in many of the best known operas. His home was at Naples.