Luigi Mancinelli

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Luigi Mancinelli

Luigi Mancinelli (born February 5,  1848 in Orvieto , † February 2,  1921 in Rome ) was an Italian  conductor , composer  and  cellist .

Life

Luigi Mancinelli was the younger brother of the orchestra conductor Marino Mancinelli. He studied in Florence with Sbolci (cello) and Mabellini (composition). After completing his studies, he devoted himself as a conductor in particular to Italian opera (especially Verdi and Puccini ), German symphonic music and the operatic works of  Richard Wagner . He made his debut as a conductor in Perugia in 1874   with the opera  Aida  by Giuseppe Verdi . He then worked as a conductor, director of the music academy and artistic director of the city and the Cappella Musicale di San Petronio in Bologna  and  Rome  . Abroad he has conducted at the  Teatro Real in Madrid , the Royal Opera House  in  London , in  Buenos Aires and at the  Metropolitan Opera  in  New York . He was engaged at the Metropolitan Opera for 10 years (until 1903) and conducted a total of 531 performances of various operas by Italian, French and German composers.

Mancinelli was less successful as a composer, despite the support of the music publisher and composer Giulio Ricordi . He composed operas, church music, orchestral works and film music. Most successful was his opera Paolo e Francesca, which premiered in Bologna in 1907   and was performed at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in 1931 and resumed in 1948. In 1899 he was able to conduct a performance of his own opera Ero e Leandro at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .

Mancinelli died in Rome three days before his 73rd birthday.

Appreciation

Brief examples of his skills as a conductor can be heard on the Mapleson cylinders , which were recorded in the Metropolitan Opera at the beginning of the 20th century. One of the clearest of these phonograph cylinders consists of a short excerpt from the “torture scene” recorded in Tosca in 1903.

As a composer, Luigi Mancinelli was less well known and successful, but his lyrical operas and orchestral works show his flair for instrumentation, which is particularly evident in the symphonic work Scene veneziane  (1889).

The theater in Orvieto, his birthplace, was renamed Teatro Mancinelli in his honor.

Works

Opera works

  • Isora di Provenza , opera in three acts with the  libretto  by Angelo Zanardini (first performed at the  Teatro Comunale di Bologna , October 2,  1884 )
  • Ero e Leandro , opera in three acts with the libretto by  Arrigo Boito (premiered in concert form at the  Norwich  Festival, October 8,  1896 , with  Hariclea Darclée , Virginia Guerrini and Emilio De Marchi; staged in Madrid at the Teatro Real, November 30,  1897  with the same cast)
  • Paolo e Francesca , opera in one act with the libretto by Arturo Colautti (first performed in Bologna at the Teatro Comunale, November 11,  1907  with Giuseppe Pacini)
  • Sogno di una Notte d'Estate , opera in three acts with the libretto by  Fausto Salvadori (completed  1919 , not performed)

Other theatrical works

  • Messalina , incidental music  (prelude and intermezzo) for the drama by Pietro Cossa (first performed at the  Teatro Valle  in Rome, January  1876 )
  • Cleopatra , incidental music for the drama by Pietro Cossa (first performed in Rome, Teatro Valle , December 20, 1877 )
  • Tizianello , incidental music for the dramatic draft by Erik Lumbroso (first performed in Rome, Teatro Nazionale, June 20,  1895 )

Church music

  • Isaia , sacred  cantata based on a poem by Giuseppe Albini (first performed in Norwich, October 13,  1887 )
  • Sancta Agnes , sacred cantata based on a poem by Giuseppe Albini (premiered in Norwich, October 27,  1905 )

Symphonic works

  • Scene veneziane , Suite (first performed in Madrid, March 10,  1889 )
  • Overture romantica (first performed  1908 )

Film music

  • Frate Sole  by Mario Corsi (Rome, Augusteo (Anfiteatro Correa), June 7,  1918 )
  • Giuliano l'apostata  by Ugo Falena (Rome, Costanzi, May 17,  1920 )

literature

Web links

Commons : Luigi Mancinelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Luigi Mancinelli at www.treccani.it. Retrieved October 11, 2017 (Italian).
  2. ^ R. Sabatini: Musica in Umbria . Morlacchi, 2016, ISBN 978-88-6074-799-0 .
  3. ↑ Performances at the Metropolitan Opera with Luigi Mancinelli as conductor. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Overview of the Mapleson cylinders. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Luigi Mancinelli at www.sapere.it. Retrieved October 11, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Mancinelli, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian conductor, composer and cellist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Orvieto
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1921
Place of death Rome