"the instrumentation page at the beginning.) Performers have taken this to be a tam-tam (partly because Mascagni used one, although to much greater effect, on the final moments of ""Cavalleria rusticana""). It is given three strokes right after the announcement that ""The comedy is over"". In 1907, ""Pagliacci"" became the first opera to be recorded in its entirety, with the Puerto Rican tenor Antonio Paoli as Canio and under Leoncavallo's personal supervision. In 1931, it became the first complete opera to be filmed with sound, in a now-obscure version starring the tenor Fernando Bertini as Canio, in his only film,"
"sensation, with Mascagni taking 40 curtain calls and winning the First Prize. Although Mascagni had started writing two other operas earlier (""Pinotta"", premiered in 1932, and ""Guglielmo Ratcliff"", premiered in 1895), ""Cavalleria rusticana"" was his first opera to be completed and performed. It remains the best known of his fifteen operas and one operetta (""Sì"" ). Apart from ""Cavalleria rusticana"", only ""Iris"" and ""L'amico Fritz"" have remained in the standard repertory, with ""Isabeau"" and ""Il piccolo Marat"" on the fringes of the Italian repertoire. Its success has been phenomenal ever since its first performance. At the time of Mascagni's death"
"Pietro Mascagni Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece ""Cavalleria Rusticana"" caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ""Verismo"" movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a ""one-opera man"" who could never repeat his first success, ""L'amico Fritz"" and ""Iris"" have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres. Mascagni said that at one point, ""Iris"" was performed in Italy more often than ""Cavalleria"" (cf."
"L'amico Fritz L'amico Fritz () is an opera in three acts by Pietro Mascagni, premiered in 1891 from a libretto by P. Suardon (Nicola Daspuro) (with additions by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti), based on the French novel ""L'ami Fritz"" by Émile Erckmann and Pierre-Alexandre Chatrian. While the opera enjoyed some success in its day and is probably Mascagni's most famous work after ""Cavalleria rusticana"", today it is performed far more rarely than ""Cavalleria"", which remains Mascagni's only enduringly popular work in America (though in Italy, ""L'amico Fritz"" and ""Iris"" are still in the active repertoire). The ""Cherry Duet"" between Fritz and Suzel"
"incorporated into the music. Notes Sources Pietro Mascagni Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece ""Cavalleria Rusticana"" caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ""Verismo"" movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a ""one-opera man"" who could never repeat his first success, ""L'amico Fritz"" and ""Iris"" have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres. Mascagni said that at one point, ""Iris"" was performed in"
"the music publisher Sonzogno announced a competition for one-act operas, Gastaldon decided to enter with ""Mala Pasqua!"", a setting of Giovanni Verga's popular short story (and later play), ""Cavalleria rusticana"". Another young composer, Pietro Mascagni, entered the same contest with his opera ""Cavalleria rusticana"", also based on Verga's story. Gastaldon withdrew his work early in the competition when he received an offer from Sonzogno's rival, Ricordi, to publish it and arrange a premiere at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. He expanded the opera to three acts, and ""Mala Pasqua!"" premiered on April 9, 1890 to modest success. Mascagni's opera eventually"
"that consisted largely of ""freemasons, riflemen, and an assortment of vulgar people."" In the meantime, Mascagni's opera ""Cavalleria rusticana"" won the Sonzogno competition. It premiered six weeks after ""Mala Pasqua!"" at the same theatre. Mascagni's work was a phenomenal success and completely eclipsed Gastaldon's. (By the time of Mascagni's death in 1945, his opera had been performed more than 14,000 times in Italy alone.) There were a few further performances of ""Mala Pasqua!"" at the Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia in September 1890 and at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon in February 1891, with Theodorini as Carmela on both occasions."
"he had first started composing in 1882; and ""Zanetto"", which his publisher, Edoardo Sonzogno, envisioned being performed in future double bills with ""Cavalleria"". Mascagni finally finished ""Zanetto"" in October 1895. It was premiered on 2 March 1896 as part of the annual celebrations in honour of Rossini's birthday at the Liceo Musicale Rossini in Pesaro, where Mascagni was now the director. Two of the conservatory's students, Maria Pizzagalli and Stefania Collamarini, sang the roles of Silvia and Zanetto. The opera was then staged at La Scala on 18 March with the same cast. Although the opera had been enthusiastically received"
"they both love (Amica). Notes Sources Amica (opera) Amica is an opera in two acts by Pietro Mascagni, originally composed to a libretto by Paul Bérel (the pseudonym of Paul de Choudens). The only opera by Mascagni with a French libretto, it was an immediate success with both the audience and the critics on its opening night at the Théâtre du Casino in Monte-Carlo on 16 March 1905. Mascagni himself conducted the performance. The opera had its Italian premiere (with an Italian libretto by Mascagni's close collaborator, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti) on 13 May 1905 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. However,"
"Pietro Mascagni and presented as a double bill with his ""Cavalleria rusticana"". Emma Carelli sang the role of Carmela. However, when the opera was first performed in Naples (10 April 1911 at the Teatro San Carlo), it was not a critical success, and Giordano and Di Giacomo further revised the work in 1913. Although Mascagni considered it one of Giordano's best operas, ""Mese Mariano"" never achieved the same success as Di Giacomo's play or as Giordano's other (longer) operas, ""Andrea Chénier"" and ""Fedora"". Even in Italy, performances following its initial runs in 1910 and 1911 have been sporadic. ""Mese Mariano"""
"protégé of Pietro Mascagni. He is perhaps best remembered for two operas, ""I Compagnacci"" and ""Madonna Oretta"". Lesser known compositions include ""Madonnetta"", ""Francesca da Rimini"", ""Lory"", ""Nena""; ""Heremos"", ""Suora Maddalena"" and ""Maria sul Monte"". The one-act opera 'I Compagnacci,' was performed in Rome and at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, USA. All traces of several other of Primo Riccitelli's operas have been lost. After a brief illness Primo Riccitelli died on 27 March 1941 in Giulianova where he is now buried. A street in the town of Teramo bears the name of this illustrious citizen. Also carrying"
"about to play. The remaining three acts are the play itself wherein after many vicissitudes, Florindo and Rosaura, aided by Columbina and Arlecchino, manage to prevent the marriage which Rosaura's father, Pantalone, had planned for her. The only frequently encountered aria is ""Quella è una strada"", a humorous aria sung - with much stuttering - by Tartaglia. Mascagni: Le Maschere (Maria Josè Gallego, Vincenzo La Scola, Amelia Felle, Giuseppe Sabbatini, ""et al.""; Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna). Conductor: Gianluigi Gelmetti. Ricordi / Fonit Cetra RFCD 2004 Mascagni: Le Maschere (Antonio Cassinelli, Cesy Broggini, Ferrando Rizzieri, Amedeo"
"The opera was successful and had several other performances in Italy (Florence, Naples, Rome, Turin). Today, ""Pinotta"" is rarely performed. There exist only two live recordings of ""Pinotta"": Notes Sources Pinotta Pinotta is an ""idillio"" or opera in 2 acts by Pietro Mascagni from an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti. The opera received its first performance on 23 March 1932 at the Teatro del Casinò in San Remo. ""Pinotta"" is based on two youthful works of Mascagni: his cantata ""In Filanda"" (1881) which was combined with the song ""La tua stelle"" (1882). The libretto was written by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, a"
"Amica (opera) Amica is an opera in two acts by Pietro Mascagni, originally composed to a libretto by Paul Bérel (the pseudonym of Paul de Choudens). The only opera by Mascagni with a French libretto, it was an immediate success with both the audience and the critics on its opening night at the Théâtre du Casino in Monte-Carlo on 16 March 1905. Mascagni himself conducted the performance. The opera had its Italian premiere (with an Italian libretto by Mascagni's close collaborator, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti) on 13 May 1905 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. However, like many of Mascagni's operas apart"
"Guglielmo Ratcliff Guglielmo Ratcliff is a tragic opera in four acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Andrea Maffei, translated from the German play ""Wilhelm Ratcliff"" (1822) by Heinrich Heine. Mascagni had substantially finished the composition of ""Ratcliff"" before the phenomenal success of his first opera, ""Cavalleria rusticana."" After the composition and performance of further operas ""L'amico Fritz"" in 1891 and ""I Rantzau"" in 1893, ""Ratcliff"" eventually premiered on 16 February 1895 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and has been revived a number of times since, including a concert performance in 2003 at the Alice Tully"
"Parisina (Mascagni) Parisina is a ""tragedia lirica"", or opera, in four acts by Pietro Mascagni. Gabriele D'Annunzio wrote the Italian libretto after Byron's poem ""Parisina"" of 1816. It was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 15 December 1913. Mascagni (b. Livorno, 7 Dec 1863; d. Rome, 2 Aug 1945) achieved success early on in his compositional life with one of his most famous operas, ""Cavalleria Rusticana"". With this opera he overcame at least 70 rival composers to win the Sonzogno competition in 1888. The ensuing fame encouraged a prolific career remembered for the vibrant melodies first"
"Cavalleria rusticana discography This is a discography of ""Cavalleria rusticana"", an opera by Pietro Mascagni. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 17 May 17, 1890. There have been over 100 full-length recordings of ""Cavalleria rusticana"" published since it was first recorded in Germany in 1909. Mascagni himself has conducted the opera in two recordings, the best-known of which is the 1940 EMI recording made to mark the 50th anniversary of the opera's premiere. The performance by the La Scala orchestra and chorus with Lina Bruna Rasa as Santuzza and Beniamino Gigli as Turiddu also has a spoken"
"introduction by Mascagni. Originally released as an LP, it is available on CD under several historical recording labels, including Naxos. For extensive annotated discographies of ""Cavalleria rusticana"", see: Cavalleria rusticana discography This is a discography of ""Cavalleria rusticana"", an opera by Pietro Mascagni. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 17 May 17, 1890. There have been over 100 full-length recordings of ""Cavalleria rusticana"" published since it was first recorded in Germany in 1909. Mascagni himself has conducted the opera in two recordings, the best-known of which is the 1940 EMI recording made to mark the 50th anniversary"
"won the competition and premiered a month later on May 17 at the same theatre. Mascagni's work was an enormous success and completely eclipsed Gastaldon's. Nevertheless, he continued writing operas over the years, producing two one-act operas, ""Pater"" (1894) and ""Stellina"" (1905) and a three-act comic opera, ""Il Reuccio di Caprilana"" (1915). Like ""Mala Pasqua!"", they premiered to moderate success but dropped almost immediately from the repertoire. After the premiere of ""Mala Pasqua!"" in 1890, Gastaldon lived in Orvieto for a time, and then settled in Florence, where he was to spend the rest of his life. There, in addition"
"earliest in 1954, and the most recent in 2003: In addition, the tenor aria ""S'è spento il sol (Notturno)"" and the ensuing ""Barcarola"" (used in the film ""Raging Bull"") have been recorded separately a number of times. Notes Sources Silvano Silvano is a ""dramma marinaresco"" (literally a ""seafaring drama"") or opera in two acts by Pietro Mascagni, 1895, from a libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, based on a novel by Alphonse Karr. It received its first performance on 25 March 1895 at La Scala, Milan. Although rarely performed today, the music (if not the drama) is of some technical accomplishment, and"
"translation by Emilio Praga of François Coppée's play ""Le passant"" (The passer-by) in which the young Sarah Bernhardt had won fame in the ""en travesti"" role of Zanetto. ""Zanetto"" represented a return by Mascagni to the one-act format of his first opera ""Cavalleria rusticana"", which had premiered in 1890. However, the Renaissance setting of ""Zanetto"" was a far cry from the gritty contemporary story he used for ""Cavalleria rusticana"", the work that made him famous. By 1893, Mascagni was simultaneously working on three operas: ""Vistilia"", based on a novel by Rocco de Zerbi set in ancient Rome; ""Guglielmo Ratcliff"", which"
"was recorded (see below). Sacchini: ""La contadina in corte "" - Sassari Symphony Orchestra La contadina in corte La contadina in corte is an ""opera buffa"" in two acts by Antonio Sacchini, first performed at the Teatro Valle in Rome during the Carnival in 1765. The libretto was by Niccolò Tassi. It was a popular opera at the time of its first performance: by the 1780s it had been staged over 20 times in such diverse cities as Rome and Warsaw. Sacchini's original setting is an ""intermezzo"" with 4 roles. There was a revival at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari"
"libretto, sending it to Mascagni in fragments, sometimes only a few verses at a time on the back of a postcard. The opera was finally submitted on the last day that entries would be accepted. In all, 73 operas were submitted, and on 5 March 1890, the judges selected the final three: Niccola Spinelli's ""Labilia"", Vincenzo Ferroni's ""Rudello"", and Mascagni's ""Cavalleria rusticana"". There have been two other operas based on Verga's story. The first, ""Mala Pasqua!"" (Bad Easter!) by Stanislao Gastaldon, was entered in the same competition as Mascagni's. However, Gastaldon withdrew it when he received an opportunity to have"
"heard in ""Cavalleria"". Indeed, Mascagni was also well known abroad. In England he conducted his own operas in the Royal Opera House's 1892 Italian season n London. He also embarked on a tour of North America in 1902 returning the following year. Unfortunately his prolific compositional career seemed to exhaust his inventiveness a little and several of his premieres were widely criticised by the public and critics alike. Most notably ""Le maschere"" which was premiered simultaneously in seven theatres across Italy, the only success being in Rome where Mascagni himself was conducting. In a bid to regain his previous success"
"the searching eye of the camera. Cavalleria Rusticana (1959 film) Cavalleria Rusticana is a 1959 Australian TV play, an adaptation of the opera by Pietro Mascagni. It was directed by Alan Burke. Music was provided by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Georg Tintner. In a Sicilian village, the peasant girl Santuzza falls for the tanner Turiddu. However he tires of her and returns to his old love, Lola. To get revenge, Santuzza tells Lola's husband Alfio about the love affair, resulting in a duel with knives between Alfio and Turiddu. It was the fourth live opera from the ABC"
"order of the day"". Four months later, the Society staged a double bill of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera ""The Old Maid and the Thief"" along with his ballet ""The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and the Manticore"". It was very successful with both the public and critics alike. Successful presentations followed from November 1957 onwards: ""Fidelio""; ""Ariadne auf Naxos""; ""Idomeneo""; a double bill of Schoenberg's ""Erwartung"" and Stravinsky's ""Le Rossignol"" (conducted by the composer); and a December 1961 ""The Magic Flute"" which resulted in an invitation from President John Kennedy at the White House for some excerpts from the opera. By this"
"always been the more popular opera of the two (287 performances to date at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as opposed to only four for ""La Wally""). In 1893, upon his premature death from tuberculosis in Milan, Catalani was interred in the Cimitero Monumentale, where Ponchielli and conductor Arturo Toscanini also lie. A passionate admirer of Catalani's music, Toscanini even named one of his daughters Wally. Toscanini recorded the prelude to Act IV of ""La Wally"" and the ""Dance of the Water Nymphs"" from ""Loreley"" in Carnegie Hall in August 1952 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor. Alfredo"
"reveals his feelings for her and the two admit their love. David enters and declares that he has won his wager with Fritz, telling him that he is going to give his winnings, Fritz’s vineyard, to Suzel as a wedding present. <Sarasota Opera program notes, 2009> L'amico Fritz L'amico Fritz () is an opera in three acts by Pietro Mascagni, premiered in 1891 from a libretto by P. Suardon (Nicola Daspuro) (with additions by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti), based on the French novel ""L'ami Fritz"" by Émile Erckmann and Pierre-Alexandre Chatrian. While the opera enjoyed some success in its day and is"
"it performed at the Teatro Costanzi, where it premiered on 9 April 1890. In the 1907 Sonzogno competition, Domenico Monleone submitted an opera based on the story, and likewise called ""Cavalleria rusticana"". The opera was not successful in the competition, but premiered later that year in Amsterdam and went on to a successful tour throughout Europe, ending in Turin. Sonzogno, wishing to protect the lucrative property which Mascagni's version had become, took legal action and successfully had Monleone's opera banned from performance in Italy. Monleone changed the opera ‘beyond recognition’, setting the music to a new libretto. In this form"
"on stage. They were invited to submit a one-act opera which would be judged by a jury of five prominent Italian critics and composers. The best three would be staged in Rome at Sonzogno's expense. Mascagni heard about the competition only two months before the closing date and asked his friend Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, a poet and professor of literature at the Italian Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, to provide a libretto. Targioni-Tozzetti chose ""Cavalleria rusticana"", a popular short story (and play) by Giovanni Verga, as the basis for the opera. He and his colleague Guido Menasci set about composing the"
"parallels the composer's work in ""Cavalleria rusticana"". The soprano/tenor duet is impressive enough (and has been recorded in modern times by Plácido Domingo and Renato Scotto), but the opera is perhaps the least revived of Mascagni's ""other"" operas, with only one recording made of the full opera. I Rantzau I Rantzau (""The Rantzau Family"") is an opera in four acts by Pietro Mascagni (1892), based on a libretto by Guido Menasci and Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, based on the play ""Les Rantzau"" (1873) by French writers Erckmann and Chatrian, after their novel (1882) ""Les Deux Frères"" (""The Two Brothers""). It was first"
"the play. Verga wrote back to him on June 3, 1888 to say that he was happy to give his permission but added that the subject as it was treated in the play did not seem suitable for an opera libretto. Unbeknownst to Verga, another young composer, Pietro Mascagni, entered the same contest at virtually the last minute with his opera ""Cavalleria rusticana"", also based on the story. Gastaldon withdrew his work early in the competition when he received an offer from Sonzogno's rival, Ricordi, to publish it and arrange for its premiere at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. He"
"Le maschere Le maschere (""The Masks"") is an opera in a Prologue and three acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. The work was Mascagni's homage to Rossini and to the Italian opera buffa and commedia dell'arte traditions. It was premiered simultaneously in six Italian opera houses on 17 January 1901: La Scala (with Caruso as Florindo, Carelli as Rosaura, and Toscanini conducting); the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; the Teatro Regio in Turin; the Teatro Costanzi in Rome; La Fenice in Venice; and the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. Two days later, it premiered at the"