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''The Daughter of Iorio'' () is a 1904 play by the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. The play is written in verse and has elements of local dialect, proverbs and traditional rhymes from Abruzzo. It tells the tragic story of the love between a young female outcast and a shepherd who is being married off to a woman he does not love.
The play was written in 33 days in the summer of 1903, while D'Annunzio was working on ''
''The Daughter of Iorio'' () is a 1904 play by the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. The play is written in verse and has elements of local dialect, proverbs and traditional rhymes from Abruzzo. It tells the tragic story of the love between a young female outcast and a shepherd who is being married off to a woman he does not love.
The play was written in 33 days in the summer of 1903, while D'Annunzio was working on ''Halcyon
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''. It premiered in 1904 at the Teatro Lirico in Milan
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, starring Irma Grammatica in the leading role. It was well received and has remained one of D'Annunzio's most performed plays.
Adaptations
The play was the basis for Alberto Franchetti's 1906 opera ''La figlia di Iorio
''La figlia di Iorio'' (''The Daughter of Iorio''), sometimes written as ''La figlia di Jorio'', is an opera in three acts by Alberto Franchetti to a libretto by Gabriele D'Annunzio. The libretto is a very close rendering of D'Annunzio's play of ...
''. Ildebrando Pizzetti
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Biography
Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino ...
made another opera adaptation which premiered in 1954. The play was adapted for film twice in the silent era, in 1911 by S. A. Ambrosio as ''Jorio's Daughter'' and in 1917 by Edoardo Bencivenga as ''La figlia di Jorio''.
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