Franco Leoni

Franco Leoni (born October 24, 1864 in Milan , † February 8, 1949 in Dover ) was an Italian composer.

Leoni studied at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan with Amilcare Ponchielli and Cesare Dominiceti . After the success of his first opera Raggio di luna (1888) he went to England. Several of his operas were premiered there at Covent Garden Opera , the most successful of which was L'Oracolo . This was premiered in 1905 with Antonio Scotti in the lead role, who also sang it at the Metropolitan Opera from 1915 . In 1917 he returned to Italy, where he performed other operas. In addition to operas, Leoni also composed a number of sacred choral works.

Works

• Raggio di luna (Libretto: Camillo Zanoni ), 1888, Milan
• Rip van Winkle (Libretto: William Ackerman after Washington Irving ), 1897, London
• The Gate of Life , dramatic cantata, text by Schapcott Wensley , 1897
• Ib and Little Cristina (Libretto: Basil Hood after Hans Christian Andersen ), 1901, London
• The Prayer of the Sword ( incidental music for JB Fagan's play), 1904, London
• L'oracolo (Libretto: Camillo Zanoni after Chester Bailey Fernald : The Cat and the Cherub ), 1905, London
• Tzigana (Libretto: Paul Ferrier , Italian by Ettore Moschino ), 1910, Genoa
• Golgotha (texts from the New Testament) for solos, choir and orchestra, 1910
• Francesca da Rimini (Libretto: Francis Marion Crawford , French by Marcel Schwab ), 1914, Paris
• Falene (Libretto: Carlo Linati ), 1920, Milan (under the pseudonym P. Gournard )
• Le baruffe chiozzotte (Libretto: Carlo Goldoni ), 1920, Milan (under the pseudonym P. Gournard )
• La terra del sogno (Libretto: Carlo Linati after William Butler Yeats ), 1921, Milan (under the pseudonym C. Chewski )
• Massemarello (librettist unknown), incomplete, probably not listed

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