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Goffredo Cognetti
Goffredo Cognetti (Naples 1855 – Castiglioncello, Livorno 1943) was an Italian writer.Cosa Nostra Social Club Goffredo Plastino · 2014 Goffredo Cognetti (1855–1943) «dopo la pubblicazione di Prime armi. Bozzetti (1877), comparve come coautore dell'opera di Salvatore Di Giacomo Mala vita. Scene popolari napoletane (1889). La sinergia si ripropose per il dramma A basso ... Works *''Mala vita'', verismo play with Salvatore Di Giacomo, on which the opera '' Mala vita'' was based. *''Scene popolari napoletane'' (1889), on which the opera A Santa Lucia was based *''O voto'', 1889 play on which the opera ''A basso porto ''A basso porto'' (''At the Lower Harbor'') is an opera in three acts by composer Niccola Spinelli. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Eugene Checchi which is based on Goffredo Cognetti's 1889 play ''O voto''. The opera premiered to ...'' was based References 1855 births 1943 deaths Writers from Naples {{Italy-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Di Giacomo
Salvatore Di Giacomo (12 March 1860 – 5 April 1934) was an Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist, one of the signatories to the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals. Di Giacomo is credited as being one of those responsible for renewing Neapolitan language poetry at the beginning of the 20th century. The language of Salvatore Di Giacomo is, however, not the everyday Neapolitan language of his contemporaries; it has a distinct 18th-century flavour to it, with archaisms that recall the golden age of Neapolitan culture. This was the period between 1750 and 1800, when Neapolitan was the language of the best-loved form of musical entertainment in Italy, the Neapolitan comic opera. Early career Di Giacomo was born in Naples. He studied medicine briefly, largely to satisfy his father's wishes, but gave it up for the life of a poet. He then founded a literary journal, ''Il Fantasio'', in 1880, and, like many young writers, had a varied apprenticeship, working in a print ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mala Vita
''Mala vita'' (Wretched Life) is an opera in three acts composed by Umberto Giordano to a libretto by Nicola Daspuro adapted from Salvatore Di Giacomo and Goffredo Cognetti's verismo play of the same name. Giordano's first full-length opera, ''Mala vita'' premiered on 21 February 1892 at the Teatro Argentina. It was subsequently performed in Naples, Vienna, Berlin and Milan, and various Italian cities over the next two years. In 1897 a considerably re-worked and revised version under the title ''Il voto'' (The Vow) premiered in Milan. Within a few years, both versions had disappeared from the repertoire. Amongst its rare modern revivals was the 2002 performance at the Teatro Umberto Giordano in Foggia which was recorded live and released on the Bongiovanni label. Set in a slum neighborhood of Naples during the early 19th century, the opera's story (and that of the play on which it is based) revolves around a love triangle between Vito, a dyer afflicted with tuberculosis; Cristina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Santa Lucia
''A Santa Lucia'' is a two-act verismo Italian-language opera by Pierantonio Tasca to a libretto by Enrico Golisciani based on the ''Scene napolitane'' of Goffredo Cognetti. It was premiered at the Kroll Opera in Berlin on 16 November 1892 with Gemma Bellincioni and Roberto Stagno in the main roles.''Annals of Opera'' 1943 p602 Tasca : A SANTA LUCIA Berlin , Kroll's . Text by E. Golisciani and G. Cognetti . Two acts . Tasca's best opera . Produced at Berlin in Italian , and revived there at the Th.d.W. 10.xi. 1905 , again in Italian . The title refers to the setting, the Borgo Santa Lucia Borgo Santa Lucia, or simply Santa Lucia ("Saint Lucy orough), is a historical ''rione'' of Naples, Italy, facing the coast. The area rises around the street of the same name, in turn named after the basilica of , the presence of which is atteste ... historic waterfront district of Naples Recording ''A Santa Lucia'' - Iordanka Derilova, Rita Kapfhammer, Cornelia Marschall, Ulf Paulsen, Ray M. Wad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Basso Porto
''A basso porto'' (''At the Lower Harbor'') is an opera in three acts by composer Niccola Spinelli. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Eugene Checchi which is based on Goffredo Cognetti's 1889 play ''O voto''. The opera premiered to critical success at the Cologne Opera on April 18, 1894, sung in a German translation by Ludwig Hartmann and Otto Hess. The work is widely considered Spinelli's greatest composition, and the prelude to the opera's third act has been programmed by numerous orchestras for performances in concert. Notes from an English performance ''A basso porto'' was first performed in England by the Carl Rosa Co., in March, 1899, at Brighton, and by the Queen's Hall Orchestra on October 11, 1900, under Mr. H. Wood. The opera focuses on the slums of Naples, where Spinelli used mandolins and guitars The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1855 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in modern-day Minneapolis, a predecessor of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. ** The 8.2–8.3 Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand. * January 26 – The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory. * January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. * January 29 – Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, over the management of the Crimean War. * February 5 – Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * February 11 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia. * February 12 – Michigan State University (the "pioneer" l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. ** Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City. * January 13 – Anti-Nazi protests in Sofia result in 200 arrests and 36 executions. * January 14 – January 24, 24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud of the Free French forces meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
