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
Fedora (opera)
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Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1882 play Fédora by Victorien Sardou. Along with Andrea Chénier and Siberia, it is one of t
Umberto Giordano
…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), based on Victorien Sardou's play, featured the rising young tenor Enrico Caruso. It was also a success and is still performed today. His later…
Poster for the 1899 performances at the Teatro Verdi, Padua