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Showing posts with label Pietro Mascagni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pietro Mascagni. Show all posts
25 July 2019

Carlo Bergonzi – operatic tenor

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Singer whose style was called the epitome of Italian vocal art Carlo Bergonzi made his professional opera debut in the role of Figaro ...
24 March 2019

Guido Menasci - poet, librettist and biographer

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Respected writer and historian who found fame from an opera Guido Menasci (right) with fellow librettist Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, f...
18 September 2018

Alberto Franchetti - opera composer

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Caruso sang his arias on first commercial record in 1902 Alberto Franchetti enjoyed his peak years in terms of popular success around ...
8 September 2018

Magda Olivero - soprano

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Singer who performed into her 80s and lived to 104 Magda Olivero made her debut in an opera broadcast for radio in 1932 The opera si...
28 March 2018

Anselmo Colzani - opera star

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Baritone who had 16 seasons at the New York Met Anselmo Colzani in his signature role, Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca Anselmo Colzan...
21 August 2017

Emilio Salgari – adventure novelist

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Author’s heroes and stories are still part of popular culture The novelist Emilio Salgari, photographed  in the early 20th century ...
2 August 2017

Pietro Mascagni – composer

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One opera was enough to build reputation of musician Pietro Mascagni in 1890, the year his opera Cavalleria Rusticana, was first pl...
13 April 2017

Antonio Meucci - inventor of the telephone

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Engineer from Florence was 'true' father of communications Antonio Meucci, the Florentine scientist and engineer who lived in ...
21 December 2016

Lorenzo Perosi - priest and composer

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Puccini contemporary chose sacred music over opera Lorenzo Perosi forsook opera in  favour of religious music Don Lorenzo Perosi, a ...