Antonio Ghislanzoni
Antonio Ghislanzoni (born November 25, 1824 in Barco di Maggianico ( Lecco ), † July 16, 1893 in Caprino Bergamasco , Bergamo province , Italy) was an Italian writer and librettist .
Ghislanzoni studied medicine but gave up his studies to become a stage singer. He edited several radical newspapers in Milan in 1848 and as a result had to flee after the return of the Austrians , where he fell into the hands of the French besieging Rome and was brought to Corsica . After his release, he went to Paris to resume his stage activities at the Théâtre des Italiens in 1851 .
However, since he lost his voice after three years, he returned to Italy, where he has lived as a writer ever since. In 1857 he co-founded the humorous magazine L'uomo di pietra , edited the Rivista minima for a long time , which he wrote almost alone, and later published the Giornale capriccio in Lecco .
Ghislanzoni wrote the libretti for the operas Aida and La forza del destino (new version) by Verdi .
Works
- Gli artisti da teatro , Roman (1865)
- Giovanni di Napoli , lyric drama (1869)
- Scritti piacevoli (1869–72)
- Capricci letterari (1870)
- Le donne brutte , comic novel (1870)
- Gli artisti alla fiera (1872)
- I Lituani , Libretto (1874) after Adam Mickiewicz: Konrad Wallenrod (1828)
- Libro proibito (1879)
- Libro allegro
- Libro Serio (1879)
- La moda nell 'arte , comedy (1881)
- Melody per canto (1881)
- Libro bizzarro (1882)
- Nuovi racconti da ridere (1882)
- Abracadabra (1884)
literature
- Giuseppe Zaccaria: GHISLANZONI, Antonio. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 54: Ghiselli-Gimma. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2000.
- Anselm Gerhard (Ed.): Antonio Ghislanzoni: How do you make an Italian opera? Italian / German [L'arte di far libretti (1870)]. (Paperback books on musicology, 163). Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Antonio Ghislanzoni in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Antonio Ghislanzoni in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Ghislanzoni, Antonio in the International Music Score Library Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghislanzoni, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lecco |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1893 |
| Place of death | Caprino Bergamasco |