What is Anton Coppola?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Anton Coppola | image = Anton Coppola (cropped).jpg | caption = Coppola backstage at the [[North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center|Belk Theater]] in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]] in 2001 during a production of [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini's]] [[Turandot]] which he conducted for [[Opera Carolina]]. | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|3|21}} | birth_place = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|3|9|1917|3|21}} | death_place = [[Manhattan]], New York City, U.S. | spouse = {{marriage|Marion Jane Miller <br> |1943|end=divorced}}<br>{{marriage|Almerinda Coppola | 1950| |end= }} | children = 3 | relations = [[Carmine Coppola]] (brother) | family = [[Coppola family tree|Coppola]] }} '''Antonio Coppola''' (March 21, 1917 &ndash; March 9, 2020) was an American opera conductor and composer. He was the uncle of movie director [[Francis Ford Coppola]] and actress [[Talia Shire]]. He was the grand-uncle of [[Nicolas Cage]], [[Sofia Coppola]], [[Gian-Carlo Coppola]], [[Jason Schwartzman]] and [[Robert Schwartzman]], and the younger brother of American composer and musician [[Carmine Coppola]]. Coppola was the musical director of six [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musicals, including ''[[Silk Stockings]]'', ''[[Bravo Giovanni]]'' and ''[[The Boy Friend (musical)|The Boy Friend]]''. He conducted two movie scores, 1990s ''[[The Godfather Part III]]'' and 1992's ''[[Bram Stoker's Dracula]]''. He appeared in the former, shown conducting the [[opera]] ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'' in the [[Teatro Massimo]] in [[Palermo]]. Coppola [[centenarian|turned 100]] in March 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/composer-and-conductor-anton-coppola-100-fortissimo/|title=Composer and Conductor Anton Coppola at 100: Fortissimo|publisher=[[WQXR-FM]]|author=Fred Plotkin|date=March 21, 2017|access-date=2017-03-21}}</ref> He died on March 9, 2020 in [[New York City]], aged