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Claudio Guastalla
Claudio Guastalla was an Italian opera librettist. Guastalla was born in Rome on 7 November 1880 and died probably in the same city in 1948. Especially important was his collaboration with the composer Ottorino Respighi. Operas Guastalla wrote fifteen libretti. Among them: * ''La grazia'', opera in 2 acts, music by Vincenzo Michetti, Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 31 March 1923 (after Grazia Deledda) * ''Belfagor'', commedia lirica in 1 prologue, 2 acts and 1 epilogue, music by Ottorino Respighi, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 26 April 1923 * ''Die versunkene Glocke'' (''La campana sommersa''), opera in 4 acts, music by Ottorino Respighi, Hamburg, Stadttheater, 18 November 1927 * ''Odette'', opera in 3 acts, music by Mario Marangolo, Brescia, Teatro Grande, 1929 * '' Maria egiziaca'' , mistero lirico in 1 act and three episodes, music by Ottorino Respighi, New York City, Carnegie Hall, 16 March 1932 * ''La fiamma'', melodramma in 3 acts, music by Ottorino Respighi, Rome, Teatro dell'Opera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Claudio Guastalla was an Italian opera librettist. Guastalla was born in Rome on 7 November 1880 and died probably in the same city in 1948. Especially important was his collaboration with the composer Ottorino Respighi. Operas Guastalla wrote fifteen libretti. Among them: * ''La grazia'', opera in 2 acts, music by Vincenzo Michetti, Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 31 March 1923 (after Grazia Deledda) * ''Belfagor'', commedia lirica in 1 prologue, 2 acts and 1 epilogue, music by Ottorino Respighi, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 26 April 1923 * ''Die versunkene Glocke'' (''La campana sommersa''), opera in 4 acts, music by Ottorino Respighi, Hamburg, Stadttheater, 18 November 1927 * ''Odette'', opera in 3 acts, music by Mario Marangolo, Brescia, Teatro Grande, 1929 * '' Maria egiziaca'' , mistero lirico in 1 act and three episodes, music by Ottorino Respighi, New York City, Carnegie Hall, 16 March 1932 * ''La fiamma'', melodramma in 3 acts, music by Ottorino Respighi, Rome, Teatro dell'Opera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. With a population of more than 200,000, it is the second largest city in the administrative region and the fourth largest in northwest Italy. The urban area of Brescia extends beyond the administrative city limits and has a population of 672,822, while over 1.5 million people live in its metropolitan area. The city is the administrative capital of the Province of Brescia, one of the largest in Italy, with over 1,200,000 inhabitants. Founded over 3,200 years ago, Brescia (in antiquity Brixia) has been an important regional centre since pre-Roman times. Its old town contains the best-preserved Roman public buildings in northern Italy and numerous monuments, among these the medieval castle, the Old and New cathedral, the Renaissance ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Male Dramatists And Playwrights
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Musicians From Rome
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1948 Deaths
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1880 Births
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Italian Opera Librettists
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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history. Born in Cremona, where he undertook his first musical studies and compositions, Monteverdi developed his career first at the court of Mantua () and then until his death in the Republic of Venice where he was ''maestro di cappella'' at the basilica of San Marco. His surviving letters give insight into the life of a professional musician in Italy of the period, including problems of income, patronage and politics. Much of Monteverdi's output, including many stage works, has been lost. His surviving music includes nine books of madrigals, large-scale religious works, such as his ''Vespro della Beata Vergine'' (''Vespers for the Blessed Virgin'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Orfeo
''L'Orfeo'' ( SV 318) (), sometimes called ''La favola d'Orfeo'' , is a late Renaissance/early Baroque ''favola in musica'', or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. It is based on the Greek legend of Orpheus, and tells the story of his descent to Hades and his fruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world. It was written in 1607 for a court performance during the annual Carnival at Mantua. While Jacopo Peri's ''Dafne'' is generally recognised as the first work in the opera genre, and the earliest surviving opera is Peri's '' Euridice'', ''L'Orfeo'' is the earliest that is still regularly performed. By the early 17th century the traditional intermedio—a musical sequence between the acts of a straight play—was evolving into the form of a complete musical drama or "opera". Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' moved this process out of its experimental era and provided the first fully developed example of the new genre. After i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ennio Porrino
Ennio Porrino (20 January 1910 – 25 September 1959) was an Italian composer and teacher. Amongst his compositions were orchestral works, an oratorio and several operas and ballets. His best known work is the symphonic poem ''Sardegna'', a tribute to his native Sardinia, which premiered in Florence in 1933. Life and career Porrino was born in Cagliari and studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He later studied with Ottorino Respighi from 1932 to 1935. According to Alfredo Casella, he became one of Respighi's disciples, championing an Italian national music movement and openly opposing composers such as Casella, Dallapiccola, and Malipiero for their Modernist music.Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura (2001)"Porrino, Ennio" ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians''. Online version retrieved via HighBeam Research 9 November 2013. After Respighi's death in 1936, Porrino and Respighi's widow Elsa completed his unfinished opera ''Lucrezia'' for its posth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucrezia (opera)
''Lucrezia'' is an opera in one act and three tableaux by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla, after Livy and William Shakespeare's ''The Rape of Lucrece'', itself based heavily on Ovid's ''Fasti''. Respighi died before finishing the work, which was therefore completed by his wife, Elsa Respighi, and by one of his pupils, Ennio Porrino. ''Lucrezia'' premiered on 24 February 1937 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in a production directed by Mario Frigerio with sets designed by . The première had a good reception. ''Lucrezia'' was much appreciated by the famous Italian musicologist Andrea Della Corte, who considered this opera as one of the best stage works of Respighi, thanks to the accomplished balance of expressivity and musical skill. One of the distinctive features of ''Lucrezia'' is the presence of the Voice, a character that sings from within the orchestra and describes what is happening on the stage and the emotions of the other characters. Roles Instr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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