Le maschere
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Title: | The masks |
Original title: | Le maschere |
Postcard from 1901 |
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Shape: | Commedia Lirica e giocoso in a parabase and three files |
Original language: | Italian |
Music: | Pietro Mascagni |
Libretto : | Luigi Illica |
Premiere: | January 17, 1901 |
Place of premiere: | The opera was premiered at the following opera houses at the same time: |
Playing time: | about 3 hours |
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Le maschere (The Masks) is an opera in a parabase and three acts by the Italian composer Pietro Mascagni . The libretto wrote Luigi Illica . Due to the immense popularity of Mascagni at this time, the opera was to be premiered at seven leading opera houses in Italy at the same time, but the performance in Naples had to be postponed to January 19 due to the illness of the tenor Giuseppe Anselmi . Despite Mascagni's popularity, five of the six premieres were major failures, only the premiere in Rome under Mascagni's baton was a success.