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Franco Alfano

Index Franco Alfano

Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Cyrano de Bergerac (1936), Risurrezione (1904) and for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. [1]

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  1. 57 relations: Alessandro Longo, Andreas K. W. Meyer, Arturo Toscanini, Bologna, Carlo Micheluzzi, Casa Ricordi, Celestina Casapietra, Classic Produktion Osnabrück, Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini", Cyrano de Bergerac (Alfano), Cyrano de Bergerac (play), Edmond Rostand, Edvard Grieg, Giacomo Puccini, Hans Sitt, Henri Caïn, Il dottor Antonio (opera), Kalidasa, Konrad Dryden, Leipzig, Leo Tolstoy, List of operas by Franco Alfano, Luciano Berio, Luigi Illica, Magda Olivero, Metropolitan Opera, Music conservatories of Naples, Naples, Naxos (company), New York City, Opernhaus Kiel, Ottavio Ziino, Paolo Serrao, Paris, Pesaro, Pianist, Piano, Plácido Domingo, Posillipo, Riccardo Piacentini, Risurrezione, Rome, Sakùntala, Salomon Jadassohn, Sanremo, Sanskrit, Shakuntala (play), Soprano, Teatro Grattacielo, The New York Times, ... Expand index (7 more) »

  2. Academic staff of Turin Conservatory
  3. Italian ballet composers
  4. Pupils of Salomon Jadassohn

Alessandro Longo

Alessandro Longo (31 December 1864 – 3 November 1945) was an Italian composer and musicologist. Franco Alfano and Alessandro Longo are 19th-century Italian male musicians, 20th-century Italian composers, 20th-century Italian male musicians and Italian Romantic composers.

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Andreas K. W. Meyer

Andreas K. W. Meyer (2 June 1958 – 8 April 2023) was a German dramaturge, journalist, librettist and opera manager.

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Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. Franco Alfano and Arturo Toscanini are 20th-century Italian male musicians.

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.

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Carlo Micheluzzi

Carlo Micheluzzi (1886–1973) was an Italian stage and film actor.

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Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi is a publisher of primarily classical music and opera.

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Celestina Casapietra

Celestina Casapietra (born 23 August 1938) is an Italian operatic soprano who was a member of the Berlin State Opera for decades.

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Classic Produktion Osnabrück

Classic Produktion Osnabrück (often referred to as cpo, in lowercase) is a record label founded in 1986 by Georg Ortmann and several others.

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Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini"

The Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini" is a music conservatory in Pesaro, Italy.

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Cyrano de Bergerac (Alfano)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a four-act opera with music by Franco Alfano, and libretto by Henri Caïn, based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 drama Cyrano de Bergerac.

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Cyrano de Bergerac (play)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand.

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Edmond Rostand

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist.

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Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Franco Alfano and Edvard Grieg are Pupils of Salomon Jadassohn.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Franco Alfano and Giacomo Puccini are 19th-century Italian male musicians, 20th-century Italian composers, 20th-century Italian male musicians, Italian Romantic composers, Italian male opera composers and Italian opera composers.

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Hans Sitt

Hans Sitt (born Jan Hanuš Sitt on 21 September 1850, Prague – 10 March 1922, Leipzig), was a Bohemian violinist, violist, teacher, and composer.

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Henri Caïn

Henri Cain (11 October 1857 – 21 November 1937) was a French dramatist, opera and ballet librettist.

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Il dottor Antonio (opera)

Il dottor Antonio is a 1949 opera by Franco Alfano to a libretto by Mario Ghisalberti based on the 1855 nationalist novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Ruffini.

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Kalidasa

Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.

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Konrad Dryden

Konrad Claude Dryden (born September 13, 1963) is an American author who has written extensively on Italian opera, particularly about the movement known as Verismo.

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Leipzig

Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as, which corresponds to the romanization Lyov.

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List of operas by Franco Alfano

This is a list of the operas of the Italian composer Franco Alfano (1876–1954).

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Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled Sequenza), and for his pioneering work in electronic music. Franco Alfano and Luciano Berio are 20th-century Italian composers, 20th-century Italian male musicians, Italian male opera composers and Italian opera composers.

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Luigi Illica

Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers.

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Magda Olivero

Magda Olivero (née Maria Maddalena Olivero) (25 March 1910 – 8 September 2014), was an Italian operatic soprano.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Music conservatories of Naples

This is a list of music conservatories in Naples, Italy.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Naxos (company)

Naxos comprises numerous companies, divisions, imprints, and labels specializing in classical music but also audiobooks and other genres.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Opernhaus Kiel

Opernhaus Kiel (Kiel Opera House) is the major venue for opera, ballet, and orchestral performances in Kiel, and home to Theater Kiel.

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Ottavio Ziino

Ottavio Ziino (11 November 1909 – 1 February 1995) was an Italian composer, conductor and academic. Franco Alfano and Ottavio Ziino are 20th-century Italian composers and Italian classical composers.

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Paolo Serrao

Paolo Serrao (11 April 1830 – 17 March 1907) was a distinguished and influential Italian teacher of musical theory and composition at Naples. Franco Alfano and Paolo Serrao are 19th-century Italian male musicians, Italian classical composers, Italian male opera composers and Italian opera composers.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pesaro

Pesaro (Pés're) is a comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Marche, capital of the province of Pesaro and Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea.

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Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Plácido Domingo

José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator.

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Posillipo

Posillipo (Pusilleco) is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples.

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Riccardo Piacentini

Riccardo Piacentini (born 3 July 1958, in Moncalieri, Province of Turin) is an Italian composer and pianist, professor of Composition at the Milan Conservatory. Franco Alfano and Riccardo Piacentini are 20th-century Italian composers, 20th-century Italian male musicians and Italian classical composers.

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Risurrezione

Risurrezione (Resurrection), is an opera or dramma in four acts by Franco Alfano.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Sakùntala

La leggenda di Sakùntala is a three-act opera by Franco Alfano, who wrote his own libretto based on Kālidāsa's 5th-century-BC drama Shakuntala.

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Salomon Jadassohn

Salomon Jadassohn (13 August 1831 – 1 February 1902) was a German pianist, composer, and teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory.

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Sanremo

Sanremo or San Remo (Sanrémmo(ro), locally Sanreumo(ro); Sant Rémol) is a comune (municipality) on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in northwestern Italy.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Shakuntala (play)

Abhijñānaśākuntalam (Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्, IAST: Abhijñānaśākuntalam), also known as Shakuntala, The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala, and many other variants, is a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, dramatizing the story of Śakuntalā told in the epic Mahābhārata and regarded as the best of Kālidāsa's works.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Teatro Grattacielo

Teatro Grattacielo is a professional opera company based in New York City specializing in concert performances of rarely heard verismo operas.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Tiziana Scandaletti

Tiziana Scandaletti, born in Padua, is an Italian soprano particularly active in chamber music and contemporary classical music.

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Turandot

Turandot (see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

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Turin Conservatory

The Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, also known as the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi or Conservatorio Torino and more commonly known in English as the Turin Conservatory, is a music conservatory in Turin, Italy.

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Ugo Falena

Ugo Falena (25 April 1875 in Rome – 20 September 1931 in Rome) was an Italian silent film director and occasional opera librettist.

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William Johns

William Johns (born 2 October 1936) is an American tenor who sang leading roles in the opera houses of Europe and the United States in a career spanning more than 25 years.

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Wrocław

Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.

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See also

Academic staff of Turin Conservatory

Italian ballet composers

Pupils of Salomon Jadassohn

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Alfano

Also known as Alfano (composer).

, The New Yorker, Tiziana Scandaletti, Turandot, Turin Conservatory, Ugo Falena, William Johns, Wrocław.