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  • "Both in interviews and in 'Appunti', Leoncavallo consistently gave his birthday as March 8, 1858, a date that appears in many reference works, although his actual birth date of April 25, 1857, has been well documented." (Mallach 2007:379) (Leoncavallo's date of birth)
  • According to Konrad Dryden (in the sleeve notes for Cyrano de Bergerac) there is also an opera called Eliane dating from 1943. (Alfano, Franco)
  • According to http://www.tryphon.it/sakuntala/freeman.htm Miranda was performed in Leipzig in 1896. (Miranda)
  • Actually an operetta. (Sì)
  • Also a pupil of Michele Saladino. (Mascagni, Pietro)
  • Apparently a friend of Oscar Wilde. He may have revised the original French version of the latter's Salome (Ingleby, Leonard Creswell: Oscar Wilde. Some reminiscences (1912) p.186). (Schwab, Marcel)
  • Apparently the son of Honore-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier (librettist of Cherubini's opera Koukourgi) and brother of Charles Duveyrier (librettist of Les Vêpres siciliennes). (Duveyrier, Charles)
  • Based-on Scribe's text for Auber's "Gustave III ou Le Bal masqu". There is also a Swedish version: add names. (Un ballo in maschera)
  • Called "Maddalena" at mascagni.org (Magdelone)
  • Called "Maja" or "Maïa" in some sources. (Maià)
  • Complete list of libretti available at http://www.puccini.it/scientifica/illicat.htm. See also Catalogo dei libretti di LUIGI ILLICA at http://193.204.255.27/operaliber/index.php?page=/operaLiber/Illica. (Illica, Luigi)
  • Completed posthumously by G. Pennacchio [NPOG]. (Edipo Re)
  • Destroyed by the composer. (Re Nala)
  • First performance (according to A. Loewenberg "Annals of Opera" and others) "Teatro Ceco" Prague, 20 May 1893 (Cornill Schut)
  • First performance took place at teatro-costanzi according to http://www.euro-opera.de/W_NN_A.html. (Il dottor Antonio)
  • First performed at Teatro San Radegonda in Milan, pace http://www.italianopera.org/compositori/C/c2174802.htm (Il sindaco babbeo)
  • For other libretti, see CODO. (Sardou, Victorien)
  • For other libretti, see CODO. (Prévost, Antoine François)
  • For other libretti, see CODO. (Gozzi, Carlo)
  • From http://www.recensionidilibri.it/8822112547: "Un'odissea, la vita di Ercole Luigi Morselli (Pesaro 1882 - Roma 1921). Dal cenacolo fiorentino con Alfredo Mori, Giovanni Papini e Giuseppe Prezzolini al viaggio in Africa e in America Latina con Federico Valerio Ratti, dalla fuga d'amore con Bianca Bertucci alla dura e spietata gavetta nell'ambiente giornalistico romano, dal pellegrinaggio per le 'corti' teatrali ed editoriali e poi, malato di tisi, per i sanatori italiani, dai trionfi del dramma teatrale "Glauco" (prima rappresentazione nel 1919) alla prematura morte, l'accidentato e tormentoso percorso biografico e letterario dello scrittore sembra riassumere in sé tutti quei 'luoghi' di una topica esistenziale e ideologica in cui si identificano (da Campana a Gozzano) tanti protagonisti del primo Novecento italiano. Troppo a lungo e ingiustamente dimenticate da pubblico e critica, l'opera e la personalità di Ercole Luigi Morselli meritano oggi, a più di settant'anni dalla morte, di essere riscoperte e rivalutate. Poco conosciuto e studiato come drammaturgo - pur avendo rappresentato all'epoca sua, tramite gli osannati capolavori di "Orione" e "Glauco", l'unica alternativa italiana, in senso antieroico si intende, al mito dannunziano - Morselli lo è ancor meno come autore di prose: prose - di cui pure il teatro si nutre ampiamente sia per lo stile che per le immagini - nelle quali rivela invece una tecnica descrittiva e stilistica sapiente ed originale, graffiante e allo stesso tempo capace di alto lirismo, e un gusto raffinato, quasi trecentista, attento alla forma e all'uso del vocabolo. In questo studio si è cercato di ricostruire la sofferta parabola biografica ed artistica dello scrittore, non trascurando di porre l'accento su quella produzione inedita, riemersa dallo spoglio delle carte autografe, di fondamentale importanza per la piena e profonda comprensione di una delle personalità più suggestive e complesse del nostro Novecento letterario." (Morselli, Ercole Luigi)
  • Grove gives his name as E. Moschini, but most other sources, have the surname Moschino. (Moschino, Ettore)
  • Is Nefta also known as Suor Clotilde? (Nefta)
  • Might be an operetta... (Goffredo Mameli)
  • One source suggested that Falene was based on a tale by Henri Murger. While it hasn't been possible to confirm this, the following juxtaposition of 'Falene' and 'Henri Murger' may be worth following up: "Salvatore Collari [Falene, 2d ed. Roma, Igea, 1950 (p. 71)] retraces in delicate colors the romantic setting of Villa Margherita in Rome (between Piazza di Spagna and Trinita dei Monti, facing the Pincio), where Pauline de Beaumont (1768-1803) lived her last months, consumee d'une maladie de langueur. The sinning had not been by default. After her death in the arms of Chateaubriand (1768-1848) , the poet erected a bas-relief in her memory; it can be seen in the church San Luigi dei Francesi. Also pathetic was the death (during the Parisian carnival) of Marguerite Gautier, la dame aux camelias of Alexandre Dumas, even if her last aria in Verdi's La Traviata requires more respiratory reserve than expected from a far advanced pulmonary disease. A similar blasphemy could be ventured about Henri Murger's Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme." (E.R.N. Grig "Historical and Bibliographical Review of Tuberculosis in the Mentally Ill" in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume X, Number 1, p.75) (Falene)
  • Penguin Opera Guide has the first performance at Teatro Colón, whereas Mallach (2002), Sadie (2004) and other sources have Teatro Coliseo. (Both are in Buenos Aires.) (Isabeau)
  • Published 1530 (Giulietta e Romeo (da Porto))
  • Published 1554 (Giulietta e Romeo (Bandello))
  • Revised as "Lina" and first performed at Teatro dal Verme, 1877-11-17. (La savoiarda)
  • Revised as Pittori Fiamminghi, Teatro Comunale di Trieste, 1928-01-21 (Cornill Schut)
  • Revised version first performed at Teatro dal Verme, 1872-12-04. (I promessi sposi)
  • Said to be based on "Tolldreisten Geschichten" by Balzac. Fixme: Original title? (Madonna Imperia)
  • Some sources give the date of the first performance as 1936-01-26. (Cyrano di Bergerac)
  • Some sources suggest that Giovacchino Forzano contributed to the libretto, but the sleeve notes of GB 2068/69-2 have him only as producer of the La Scala première. (La cena delle beffe)
  • Some sources, including Wikipedia, give the name as Mélésville, but most use Mélesville. (Mélesville)
  • The libretto was apparently "by A. Zanardini after E. Scribe" - clarify the relationship. (Il figliuol prodigo)
  • The subject was also treated by Auber, 1856 (librettist: Scribe) and Massenet, 1884 (librettists: Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille). (L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, par Monsieur D.)
  • There is some uncertainty about Leoni's date of death. Some sources give 1938-11-11. Also a pupil of Dominiceti. (Leoni, Franco)
  • There was actually a seventh premiere venue, but the performance was held one day later due to illness. (Le maschere)
  • This guy seems to have led an interesting life; also composed operas; see CODO. (Solera, Temistocle)
  • Time period: 1040 (Macbeth)
  • Time period: 1095-1099 (Jérusalem)
  • Time period: 1099 (I Lombardi alla prima Crociata)
  • Time period: 1176 (La battaglia di Legnano)
  • Time period: 1200 (c.) (Aroldo)
  • Time period: 1200. (Isabeau)
  • Time period: 1228 (Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio)
  • Time period: 1282 (Les Vêpres siciliennes)
  • Time period: 1300 (Loreley)
  • Time period: 1339 1363 (Simon Boccanegra)
  • Time period: 1429 (c.) (Giovanna d'Arco)
  • Time period: 1442 (Der Roland von Berlin)
  • Time period: 1457 (I due foscari)
  • Time period: 1519 (Ernani)
  • Time period: 1568 (Don Carlos)
  • Time period: 15th Century (Gloria)
  • Time period: 1600 (Edmea)
  • Time period: 16th Century (Il vassallo di Szigeth)
  • Time period: 1773 (Un giorno de regno)
  • Time period: 1793 (c.) (Il piccolo Marat)
  • Time period: 17th Century (Cornill Schut)
  • Time period: 1850 (c.) (La traviata)
  • Time period: 454 A.D. (Attila)
  • Time period: 586 B.C. (Nabucco)
  • Time period: 624 A.D., two years after the Hijra (the emigration of Muhammad and his followers to the city of Medina). (La Falce)
  • Time period: beginning of the eighteenth century (I masnadieri)
  • Time period: beginning of the nineteenth century (Il corsaro)
  • Time period: beginning of the nineteenth century (Stiffelio)
  • Time period: ca. 1485 (the time of Lorenzo il Magnifico, 1469-1492) (La cena delle beffe)
  • Time period: early seventeenth century (Luisa Miller)
  • Time period: end of fifteenth century (Otello)
  • Time period: end of the seventeenth century. (Un ballo in maschera)
  • Time period: fifteenth century (Il trovatore)
  • Time period: mid-eighteenth century (La forza del destino)
  • Time period: mid-sixteenth century (Alzira)
  • Time period: reign of Henry IV (Falstaff)
  • Time period: settecento (Il re)
  • Time period: sixteenth century (Rigoletto)
  • Time period: the time of the pharoahs (Aida)
  • Unf. (1874), compl. by Annibale Ponchielli and A. Cadore, 1911. (I mori di Valenza)
  • Wrote hundreds of libretti. (Scribe, Eugène)
  • Wrote over 100 librettos for Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini a.o. (Romani, Felice)
  
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