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Profile of Umberto Giordano
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28th August 1867 |
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Foggia, Italy |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Umberto Giordano (August 28, 1867 - November 12, 1948) was a composer, mainly of opera.
He was born in Foggia in Italy and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera Marina, was written for an academic competition, after which came Mala Vita, a gritty verismo opera concerning a labourer who vows to reform a prostitute if he is cured of his tuberculosis. This caused something of a scandal when performed at Rome in 1892. Giordano tried a more romantic approach with his next opera, Regina Diaz (1894), but this was also a failure, taken off the stage after just two performances.
Giordano then moved to Milan, and returned to verismo with his best-known work, Andrea Chénier (1896), based on the life of the French poet, André Chénier. Fedora (1898) was also a success, and is still performed today. His later works are much less well known, but occasionally revived.
Other Works
- Il Voto (1902)
- Siberia (1903, revised 1927)
- Marcella (1907)
- Mese mariano (1910)
- Madame Sans-Gêne (1915)
- La cena delle beffe (1924)
- Il Re (1929)
- La festa del Nilo (incomplete)
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