Carmen Melis
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Carmen Melis was an Italian operatic soprano who had a major international career during the first four decades of the 20th century. She was known, above all, as a verismo soprano, and was one of the
Carmen Melis
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La cena delle beffe
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La cena delle beffe is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Sem Benelli adapted from his 1909 play of the same name. The opera premiered on 20 December 1924 at
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…roles from the operas of Puccini and Verdi. At La Scala in 1924 she notably created the role of Ginevra in the world premiere of Umberto Giordano's La cena delle beffe under conductor Arturo Toscanini. In 1926, she performed again, with great success, at La Fenice in Venice with Italian tenor Armando Bini, in Madama…
The opera's composer, Umberto Giordano
The opera's librettist Sem Benelli
Poster by Galileo Chini for Benelli's 1909 play, La cena delle beffe. The same image was used for the posters advertising Giordano's opera in 1924.