Franco Faccio
Franco Faccio (born March 8, 1840 in Verona , † July 21, 1891 in Monza ) was an Italian composer and conductor .
Life
Faccio began his musical training in 1855 at the Conservatory in Milan ; after graduation he went to Paris with his friend Arrigo Boito . Here he worked as a composer and conductor and made the acquaintance of the musical greats of his time: Giuseppe Verdi , Charles Gounod and Hector Berlioz . In 1866 he fought alongside his friend Boito in Garibaldi's troops .
After a brief interlude as a conductor in Scandinavia and Germany, he returned to his homeland in 1868 and became director of the Milan Conservatory and three years later director of La Scala in Milan . Faccio conducted the Italian premiere of Verdi's Aida (1872) and the world premiere of Otello (1887). He died in Monza at the age of only 51 after spending the last two years of his life in the insane asylum there after being seriously ill. His body was transferred to Milan.
plant
Franco Faccio was best known as a conductor, especially for his Verdi interpretations. As a composer he was less successful, his two operas I profughi fiamminghi (premiere Milan 1863) and Amleto (libretto by Arrigo Boito based on Shakespeare's Hamlet ; premiere 1865 in Genoa ) quickly fell into oblivion after an initially friendly reception by the audience. The performance of Amleto at La Scala in Milan in 1871 was turned into a fiasco by a sick tenor in the title role. In addition, Faccio created three symphonies , chamber music and a few other works.
It was not until the 2010s that Faccio's music for the opera stage was rediscovered. The conductor Anthony Barrese made an Amleto sheet music edition from the autograph . In 2014 he himself directed the first recent revival of the work at Opera Southwest in Albuquerque , New Mexico, USA. In 2016 Amleto was also played in new productions at the Delaware Opera in Wilmington (again under Barreese's direction) and at the Bregenz Festival (under Paolo Carignani ).
literature
- William Ashbrook : Faccio, Franco , in Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , Vol. 2. MacMillan, London 1998, ISBN 0-333-73432-7 and ISBN 1-56159-228-5, respectively
- Julian Budden : The Operas of Verdi. Volume 2. From Il Trovatore to La Forza del destino . Cassell, London 1984, ISBN 978-0-19-520068-3 or ISBN 978-0-19-520450-6
- Raffaello DeRensis: L'Amleto di A. Boito, con lettere inedite di Boito, Mariani e Verdi . La Lucerna, Ancona 1927.
- Raffaello DeRensis: Franco Faccio e Verdi, carteggi e documenti inediti . Fratelli Treves Editori, Milano 1934.
- Frank Walker: The Man Verdi . Knopf, New York 1962 / University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1982, ISBN 0-226-87132-0
- Elisabeth Sobotka : Franco Faccio - his position in Italian opera history . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 1990.
- Kerstin Schüssler: "Noi, più baldi e men devoti - Vogliam l'arte dei nepoti". Arrigo Boito and Franco Faccio's opera “Amleto” as a manifesto of nuovo melodramma . In: Aspetti musicali. Festschrift for Dietrich Kämper on his 65th birthday . Dohr, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-925366-83-0
Web links
- Anthony Barrese: The " Amleto Project" at anthonybarrese.com
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faccio, Franco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verona , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1891 |
| Place of death | Monza , Italy |