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1857–1919, Italian At the beginning of the 1890s, librettist Illica began an association with the Ricordi publishing house that resulted in collaborations with the most prominent Italian opera composers over the next 20 years. Most significant was his work with Puccini. Although they had a tempestuous relationship, it resulted in Manon Lescaut and, in collaboration with Giuseppe ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Composed: 1896 Premiered: 1896, Milan Libretto by Luigi Illica Act I During the early days of the French Revolution, Gérard, a servant, is secretly in love with Maddalena, daughter of the Contessa de Coigny. Among the guests at the contessa’s soirée is the poet Andrea Chénier. The other guests are offended by his call for liberty ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

sensual score, is supremely alluring. The opera rarely fails to draw the listener entirely into its world. Composed: 1894–95 Premiered: 1896, Turin Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after Henry Murger’s novel Scènes de la vie de bohème Act I Marcello, a painter, and Rodolfo, a poet, are shivering in their Parisian garret ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Madama Butterfly is the last opera to be written by the trio of Puccini, Illica and Giacosa. It was, as usual, beset by difficulties in the preparation and approval of the libretto. Puccini was as opposed to one particular scene as Giacosa was for it. Puccini, of course, won, but Giacosa remained so convinced that ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

, the level of musical invention is extremely high, betraying in particular Puccini’s strong interest in Wagner. Composed: 1890–92 Premiered: 1893, Turin Libretto by Domenico Oliva and Luigi Illica, after Abbé Prévost’s novel Act I Townspeople and students are gathered outside an inn in Amiens. The Chevalier des Grieux addresses some girls with a mocking serenade. A coach ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

levity and great beauty, such as Tosca’s aria ‘Vissi d’arte’ (‘I Live for Art’). Composed: 1898–99 Premiered: 1900, Teatro Costanzi, Rome Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after Victorien Sardou’s play La Tosca Background In 1800 Rome has been taken by an Austro-Neapolitan army. Power lies with Baron Scarpia, the police chief. Angelotti, a ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

projects foundered for similar reasons until the success of Königskinder (1910), which revealed more fully Humperdinck’s admiration for Wagner. Introduction | Turn of the Century | Opera Personalities | Luigi Illica | Turn of the Century | Opera ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

getting them performed. For Manon Lescaut, his third opera, no fewer than five writers had a hand in the libretto. Two among them, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, were to collaborate again with him on his three most popular operas, La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Giacosa died in 1906, and Puccini was never ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

him. Ricordi had several potential subjects lined up for the new toast of Italy: a scenario along the lines of Cavalleria rusticana with Giovanni Verga and several ideas with Luigi Illica, including the germs of Tosca. Illica had been involved in Manon Lescaut, but his relationship with Puccini was not an easy one. Maturity and Mastery Ricordi showed his ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

playwright of the time. His most striking operatic work was made in conjunction with Puccini. Initially brought in by Giulio Ricordi to smooth the troubled relationship between Puccini and Luigi Illica, Giacosa soon became indispensable. It was Giacosa’s responsibility to take the detailed scenario worked out by Illica and turn it into refined verse. The three men produced the three ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

when another of his composers, Alberto Franchetti, gave up the libretto to Andrea Chénier. Giordano seized on the chance to set this strong, veristic text by Luigi Illica and was rewarded with a triumphant premiere, which propelled him fame. His next opera, Fedora, was also a great success and, like its immediate predecessor, ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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