Umberto Giordano
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Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. His best-known work in that genre was Andrea Chenier.
Umberto Giordano (photo with dedication from 1942)
Umberto Giordano (1896) by Gaetano Esposito
Umberto Giordano, 1905
Andrea Chénier
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Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed on 28 March 1896 at La Scala, Milan. The story is based loosely on t
Umberto Giordano
…Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 1867 – 12 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. His best-known work in that genre was Andrea Chenier (1896). He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera, Marina, was…
The French poet André Chénier on whose life the opera is loosely based
Giuseppe Borgatti, the first Chénier
Mario Sammarco, the first Gérard