Ferdinando Fontana

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Ferdinando Fontana (left) and Giacomo Puccini , around 1885

Ferdinando Fontana (born January 30, 1850 in Milan , † May 10, 1919 in Lugano ) was an Italian playwright , librettist , poet and translator .

Life

Fontana was the son of a painter. At the age of seven he entered the Barnabite school . After his mother's death, he had to drop out of training to do odd jobs to support the family. At Corriere della Sera he got a job as a proofreader and later as a journalist. In 1878/79 he was the Berlin correspondent of the Gazzetta Piemontese (today La Stampa ).

In Milan, Ferdinando Fontana belonged to the artist group Scapigliatura . In addition to his journalistic work, he published travel reports, theater texts and poetry, some in dialect. He is best known for his opera libretti Le Villi (premier 1884) and Edgar (premier 1889) , set to music by Giacomo Puccini .

After the Milan workers' uprising of 1898, which he supported as a committed socialist, Fontana fled to Switzerland. There he lived in seclusion until his death. He found accommodation in Montagnola in the Casa Camuzzi , which later became the residence of Hermann Hesse .

Works

Dramas

Libretti

  • El marchionn di gamb avert. Opera. Music: Enrico Bernardi. Premiere July 14th 1875 Milan
  • Il conte di Montecristo. ( The Count of Monte Cristo ; addition to the unfinished libretto by Emilio Praga ). Opera. Music: Raffaele Dell'Aquila. Premiere June 14, 1876 in Milan
  • Maria e Taide Opera. Music: Nicolò Massa. Premiere August 1876
  • The violino del diavolo. Opera. Music: Agostino Mercuri. Premiere September 12, 1878 Cagliari
  • Aldo e Clarenza. Opera. Music: Nicolò Massa. WP April 11, 1878
  • La Simona. Opera. Music: Benedetto Junck (1852–1903). Premiere 1878 Milan
  • Odio. (1878/1879). Opera (for Amilcare Ponchielli ; not set to music)
  • Maria Tudor. Opera (attributed to Emilio Praga?). Music: Antônio Carlos Gomes . Premiere March 27, 1879 Milan ( Teatro alla Scala )
  • Il bandito. Opera. Music: Emilio Ferrari. Premiere December 5, 1880 Casale Monferrato
  • La leggenda d'un rosajo. Cantata. Music: Enrico Bertini (1883)
  • Anna e Gualberto. Opera. Music: Luigi Mapelli (1855–1913). Premiere May 4, 1884 Milan
  • Le Villi . Opera. Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere May 31, 1884 Milan ( Teatro Dal Verme )
  • Il Natale. Racconti messi in musica. Music: Giulio Ricordi (1840–1912; under the pseudonym Jules Burgmein ) (~ 1884)
  • Il Valdese. Opera. Music: Giuseppe Ippolito Franchi-Verney. Premiere December 3, 1885 Turin
  • Flora mirabilis. Opera. Music: Spyros Samaras . Premiere May 16, 1886 Milan (Teatro Carcano)
  • Il bacio. Opera. Music: Enrico Bertini (1886, not listed)
  • Il profeta del Korasan. ( Mocanna ). Opera. Music: Guglielmo Zuelli (1859–1941) (1886, not listed)
  • Notte d'aprile. Opera. Music: Emilio Ferrari. Premiere February 4, 1887 Milan
  • Colomba. Opera. Music: Vittorio Radeglia. Premiere June 15, 1887 Milan
  • Annibale. Ballet. Music: Romualdo Marenco (1841–1907) (1888)
  • Asrael. Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti . Premiere February 11, 1888 Reggio Emilia
  • Edgar . Opera. Music: Giacomo Puccini. Premiere April 21, 1889 Milan (Teatro alla Scala)
  • Zoroastro. Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti (1890, fragment)
  • Il tempo. ( The time ). Ballet. Music: Riccardo Bonicioli. Premiere January 3, 1891
  • Lionella. Opera. Music: Spyros Samaras. Premiere April 4, 1891 Milan
  • Theora. Opera. Music: Ettore Edoardo Trucco. WP February 14, 1894
  • Duettin d'amore opera (together with Gaetano Sbodio [(1844–1920)]). Music: Emilio Ferrari (1895)
  • La forza d'amore. Opera. Music: Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (1854–1943). Premiere March 6, 1897 Turin
  • Il signor di Pourceaugnac. Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti. Premiere April 10, 1897 in Milan
  • Mal d'amore. Opera. Music: Angelo Mascheroni (1855–1905). Premiere April 30, 1898 in Milan
  • La lampada. Opera. Music: Ubaldo Pacchierotti (1875–1916). Premiere December 16, 1899
  • La notte di Natale. Opera. Music: Alberto Gentile. WP December 29, 1900
  • Il calvario. Opera. Music: Edoardo Bellini. Premiere June 25, 1901 in Milan
  • Maria Petrovna. Opera. Music: João Gomes de Araújo (1846–1943) (1903). Premiere January 1929
  • La nereid. Opera. Music: Ulisse Trovati. Premiere November 14, 1911
  • Caccia proibita. Operetta in 3 acts. Music (1918): Enrico Dassetto
  • Don Cecè. Commedia (comic opera) in 3 acts. Music (1919): Enrico Dassetto
  • Sandha. Opera. Music: Felice Lattuada (1882–1962). Premiere February 21, 1924 Genoa
  • Elda. (undated)
  • La Simona. Poemetto lirico. Music: Benedetto Junck (1852–1903) (undated)

Plays

  • La Pina Madamin (1875). Comedy in 2 acts (in the Milanese dialect)
  • La Statôa del sciôr Incioda (1889). Comedy (in the Milanese dialect)
  • Nabuco (1893). Play in 4 acts

Poetry

Poems set to music

  • È morto Pulcinella! ("Signore belle, voi mi dimandate ..."). Music: Paolo Tosti (1881; for voice and piano)
  • Nonna, ... sorridi? ... ("Nonna, nonnina mia, ti voglio dire ..."). Music: Paolo Tosti (1881; for voice and piano)
  • Senza di te! ("Fra i cento murmuri - dell'ora bruna ..."). Music: Paolo Tosti (1881/82)
  • Lombard canzons and romances, set to music by Nicolò Massa a. a.
  • Inno al Ticino ( Anthem of the Canton of Ticino ). Music (1899): Romualdo Marenco (1841–1907). - (Also set to music by Enrico Dassetto [1952]?)

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personal data
SURNAME Fontana, Ferdinando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian playwright, librettist, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1919
Place of death Lugano