Giovacchino Forzano

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Giovacchino Forzano (born November 19, 1884 in Borgo San Lorenzo , † October 28, 1970 in Rome ) was an Italian playwright , librettist , screenwriter , publicist and director .

Life

Forzano studied medicine, law and singing. He gained his first theater experience as a baritone on small stages in Tuscany. At the same time he began to work as a journalist; u. a. for La Nazione (Florence), La Stampa (Turin) and the Corriere della Sera (Milan).

He became known as a writer and director of dramatic texts. He wrote opera libretti (his aria text O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi , music: Giacomo Puccini ), and he staged a. a. at the Teatro Regio in Turin, at La Scala in Milan , the Arena in Verona and at the Royal Opera House London.

During the fascist era , Forzano organized a traveling theater for the Partito Nazionale Fascista , the Carro di Tespi. Forzano was a member of Benito Mussolini's circle of friends , with whom he wrote the three plays Campo di maggio (1930), Villafranca (1932) and Cesare (1939). In 1932 Forzano took part in a competition for a film to mark the tenth anniversary of the March on Rome . As a result, he was involved in the production of several propaganda films and founded his own studio in Tirrenia. Forzano has produced version films of several of his dramas, including "Villafranca" and "Hundred Days".

Giovacchino Forzano was the father of the film director Andrea Forzano (1915-1992).

Works

prose

memories

Come li ho conosciuti, Eri, Turin 1957.

History books

  • Carrara dal 27 aprile al 22 agosto '59 . Tip. Artistica, Carrara 1909
  • Carrara nel 1859: note raccolte da documenti inediti dell'Archivio Comunale e riordinate ad uso delle scuole . Tip. Lanini, Florence 1911

Dramas

Libretti

  • Notte di leggenda . Tragedia lirica (opera) in one act. Music: Alberto Franchetti . Premiere March 29, 1906 Milan ( Scala ). - New version: WP 14 January 1915 Milan (Scala)
  • Lodoletta . Dramma lirico (opera) in 3 acts. Music: Pietro Mascagni . Premiere April 30, 1917 Rome (Teatro Costanzi)
  • Suor Angelica ( sister Angelica ). Opera in one act (2nd part of Iltrittico ). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere December 14, 1918 New York City ( Metropolitan Opera )
  • Gianni Schicchi . Opera in one act (3rd part of Il Szenico ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. Premiere December 14, 1918 New York City (Metropolitan Opera)
  • Edipo re . Grand opéra in one act. Music: Ruggero Leoncavallo (fragment, supplemented by Salvatore Allegra [1898–1993]). Premiere December 13, 1920 Chicago
  • Il piccolo Marat ( The Little Marat ). Dramma lirico (opera) in 3 acts (together with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti [1863–1934]). Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere May 2, 1921 Rome (Teatro Costanzi)
  • Glauco . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Alberto Franchetti. Premiere in Naples in 1922
  • Il finto paggio ( The Wrong Page ). Commedia musicale (opera). Music (1924): Alberto Franchetti (not listed)
  • Sly ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato ( Sly or The legend of the awakened sleeper ). Opera in 3 acts. Music: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari . Premiere December 29, 1927 Milan (Scala)
  • Il gonfaloniere ( The Standard Bearer ). Opera. Music (1927; fragment): Alberto Franchetti
  • Il re ( The King ). Novella (opera) in one act. Music: Umberto Giordano . Premiere January 12, 1929 Milan (Scala)
  • Fiori del Brabante . Azione coreografica (festival). Music: Alberto Franchetti ( Kermesse ), Pietro Mascagni ( Danza dei Gianduiotti e Giacomette ), Riccardo Zandonai , Alfredo Casella , Gian Francesco Malipiero , Ildebrando Pizzetti , Ottorino Respighi . Premiere February 10, 1930 Turin (Teatro Regio; on the occasion of the wedding of Umberto of Savoy and Marie José of Belgium )
  • Don Napoleone ( Don Bonaparte ). Weird opera. Music (1941): Alberto Franchetti (not listed)

Plays and scripts

  • Gli amanti sposi (comedy, 1924)
  • Il conte di Bréchard (historical drama, 1924)
  • Il dono del mattino (comedy, 1925)
  • Gutlibi (drama, 1926)
  • Ginevra degli Almieri (historical drama, 1927)
  • Danton (historical drama, 1929)
  • Campo di maggio (historical drama, 1930; together with Benito Mussolini ). Premiere December 18, 1930 Rome ( Teatro Argentina )
    • German premiere: One Hundred Days (1932, German by Géza Herczeg , German National Theater Weimar)
    • Austrian premiere: Hundred Days (1933, Burgtheater, Vienna)
    • German-language book edition: Hundred days. Three nudes in nine pictures . German by Géza Herczeg . Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 1933
  • Villafranca (historical drama, 1932; with Benito Mussolini)
  • Racconti d'autunno, di inverno e di primavera (nationalist festival, 1937)
  • Cesare (historical drama, 1939; with Benito Mussolini)

Films (selection)

  • 1933: Camicia nera (screenplay and direction: Giovacchino Forzano)
  • 1934: Villafranca (film adaptation of the drama of the same name, together with Benito Mussolini; director: Giovacchino Forzano)
  • 1936: Campo di maggio (film adaptation of the drama of the same name, together with Benito Mussolini; director: Giovacchino Forzano)
  • 1940: Sei bambine e il Perseo (screenplay and director: Giovacchino Forzano)
  • 1943: Piazza San Sepolco

Staging of foreign works (selection)

literature

  • Griffiths, Clive Edward John: The theatrical works of Giovacchino Forzano, Mellen, Lewiston [u. a.] 2000.
  • Tietke, Fabian: Co-produced contradictions. The German-Italian period films CAMPO DI MAGGIO, HUNDERT TAGE and CONDOTTIERI. In: Francesco Bono, Johannes Roschlau (ed.): Tenors, tourists, guest workers. German-Italian film relations. Munich, edition text + kritik, pp. 57–68.
  • Tietke, Fabian: Napoleon in the theater of the dictators: Campo di Maggio and Hundred Days from 1935 based on the play by Benito Mussolini and Giovacchino Forzano. In: Filmblatt , Vol. 18 [Winter 2013/14], No. 53, pp. 3–17.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaetano Biccari: "Refuge of the Spirit?" Conservative-revolutionary, fascist and National Socialist theater discourses in Germany and Italy 1900-1944, p. 290.
  2. ^ Giovacchino Forzano: Mussolini autore drammatico. Campo di Maggio, Villafranca, Cesare. Firenze: Barbèra 1954. Cf. Toni Bernhart: Benito Mussolini as a writer and his translations into German. In: Andrea Albrecht u. a. (Ed.): The academic 'Rome-Berlin axis'? The scientific-cultural exchange between Italy and Germany 1920 to 1945. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2017, pp. 345–399.
  3. ^ Fabian Tietke: Napoleon in the theater of the dictators: Campo di Maggio and Hundred Days from 1935 based on the play by Benito Mussolini and Giovacchino Forzano. In: Filmblatt , Vol. 18 [Winter 2013/14], No. 53, pp. 3–17, p. 3.
  4. ^ Fabian Tietke: Napoleon in the theater of the dictators: Campo di Maggio and Hundred Days from 1935 based on the play by Benito Mussolini and Giovacchino Forzano. In: Filmblatt , Vol. 18 [Winter 2013/14], No. 53, pp. 3–17.
personal data
SURNAME Forzano, Giovacchino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian playwright, librettist, screenwriter, publicist and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Borgo San Lorenzo , Italy
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1970
Place of death Rome , Italy