An elaborate choral piece sang by the rising sun, "Inno del Sole," opens his Japanese-styled opera, Iris.
An elaborate choral piece sang by the rising sun, "Inno del Sole," opens his Japanese-styled opera, Iris. Cleo de Merode and Luciano de Chablis are the tenor roles in his only operetta, Si, while a host of commedia dell arte stock characters populate his La Maschere, which simultaneously premiered in six cities across Italy. The aria "O Amore, O Bella Luce del Core" is the highlight of his second biggest success, L'Amico Fritz, though his masterpiece was an adaptation of the story about a fight over Lola by the peasants Alfio and Turiddu that was written by Giovanni Verga. FTP, name this turn-of-the- 20th-Century Italian composer of Cavalleria Rusticana.
An elaborate choral piece sang by the rising sun, "Inno del Sole," opens his Japanese-styled opera, Iris.
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