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 ''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 Gem ...
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
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