Ferdinando Fontana

Ferdinando Fontana ( born January 30, 1850 in Milan, † May 10 1919 in Lugano ) was an Italian dramatist, librettist, poet and translator.

• 2.2.1 Voiced poems

Life

Fontana was the son of a painter. At seven, he joined the School of Barnabites. After her mother's death, he had to stop the training to help with odd jobs for the livelihood of the family. When Corriere della Sera, he got a job as a proofreader, and later as a journalist. 1878/79 he was the Berlin correspondent Gazzetta Piemontese (now La Stampa ).

In Milan, Ferdinando Fontana was a member of the artist group Scapigliatura. In addition to his journalistic work, he published travel stories, drama and poetry texts, partly in dialect. He is known primarily for his set to music by Giacomo Puccini opera librettos Le Villi (UA 1884) and Edgar (UA 1889).

After Milan's workers' uprising of 1898, he had supported as a committed socialist, Fontana fled to Switzerland. There he lived in retirement until his death. He found accommodation in Montagnola in the Camuzzi that the residence of Hermann Hesse was later.

Works

Dramas

Libretti

• El marchionn di gamb avert. Opera. Music: Enrico Bernardi. UA July 14, 1875 Milan
• Il conte di Montecristo ( The Count of Monte Cristo; complement the unfinished libretto by Emilio Praga ). Opera. Music: Raffaele dell 'Aquila. UA June 14, 1876 Milan
• Maria e Taide. Opera. Music: Nicolò Massa. UA August 1876
• Il violino del diavolo. Opera. Music: Agostino Mercuri. UA September 12 1878 Cagliari
• Aldo e Clarenza. Opera. Music: Nicolò Massa. UA April 11, 1878
• La Simona. Opera. Music: Benedetto Junck ( 1852-1903 ). UA 1878 Milan
• Odio (1878 /79). Opera ( Amilcare Ponchielli for, not dubbed )
• Mary Tudor Opera ( Emilio Praga attributed? ). Music: Antônio Carlos Gomes. UA March 27, 1879 Milan ( Scala)
• Il bandito. Opera. Music: Emilio Ferrari. UA December 5, 1880 Casale Monferrato
• La leggenda d'un rosajo. Cantata. Music: Enrico Bertini (1883 )
• Anna e Gualberto Opera. Music: Luigi Mapelli ( 1855-1913 ). UA May 4, 1884 Milan
• Le Villi. Opera. Music: Giacomo Puccini. UA May 31, 1884 Milan (Teatro Dal Verme )
• Il Natale. Racconti messi in musica. Music: Giulio Ricordi (1840-1912; under the pseudonym Julesburg My ) ( ~ 1884)
• Il Valdese. Opera. Music: Giuseppe Ippolito Franchi - Verney. UA December 3, 1885 Turin
• Flora mirabilis. Opera. Music: Spyros Samaras. UA May 16, 1886 Milan (Teatro Carcano )
• Il bacio. Opera. Music: Enrico Bertini (1886, not listed )
• Il profeta del Korasan ( Mocanna ). Opera. Music: Guglielmo Zuelli (1859-1941) (1886, not listed )
• Notte d' aprile. Opera. Music: Emilio Ferrari. UA February 4, 1887 Milan
• Colomba. Opera. Music: Vittorio Radeglia. UA June 15, 1887 Milan
• Annibale. Ballet. Music: Romualdo Marenco (1841-1907) (1888 )
• Asrael. Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti. UA February 11, 1888 Reggio Emilia
• Edgar. Opera. Music: Giacomo Puccini. UA April 21, 1889 Milan
• Zoroastro. Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti (1890, fragment)
• Il tempo ( the time). Ballet. Music: Riccardo Bonicioli. UA January 3, 1891
• Lionella. Opera. Music: Spyros Samaras. UA April 4, 1891 Milan
• Theora. Opera. Music: Edoardo Ettore Trucco. UA February 14, 1894
• Duettin d' amore Opera (together with Gaetano Sbodio [( 1844-1920 ) ] ). Music: Emilio Ferrari ( 1895)
• La forza d' amore. Opera. Music: Arturo Buzzi - Peccia ( 1854-1943 ). UA March 6, 1897 Turin
• Il signor di Pourceaugnac. Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti. UA April 10, 1897 Milan
• Mal d' amore. Opera. Music: Angelo Mascheroni ( 1855-1905 ). UA April 30, 1898 Milan
• La lampada. Opera. Music: Ubaldo Pacchierotti ((1875-1916)). UA December 16, 1899
• La notte di Natale. Opera. Music: Alberto Gentile. UA December 29, 1900
• Il calvario. Opera. Music: Edoardo Bellini. UA June 25, 1901 Milan
• Maria Petrovna. Opera. Music: João Gomes de Araújo (1846-1943) (1903 ). UA in January 1929
• La nereide. Opera. Music: Ulisse Trovati. UA November 14, 1911
• Caccia proibita. Operetta in 3 acts. Music ( 1918): Enrico Dassetto
• Don Cece. Commedia ( comic opera ) in 3 acts. Music ( 1919): Enrico Dassetto
• Sandha. Opera. Music: Felice Lattuada ( 1882-1962 ). UA February 21, 1924 Genoa
• Elda (undated )
• La Simona. Poemetto lirico. Music: Benedetto Junck (1852-1903) (undated )

Plays

• La Pina Madamin (1875 ). Comedy in 2 acts ( in Milanese dialect)
• La Statôa del Scior Incioda (1889 ). Comedy ( in Milanese dialect)
• Nabuco (1893 ). Drama in 4 acts

Poetry

• Poems and narrative poems
• Canto dell'odio (1878; Giosuè Carducci dedicated )

Music poems

• È morto Pulcinella! ( " Signore belle, voi mi dimandate ..."). Music: Paolo Tosti (1881, for voice and piano )
• Nonna, ... sorridi? ... ( " Nonna, Nonnina mia, ti voglio dire ..."). Music: Paolo Tosti (1881, for voice and piano )
• Senza di te! ( " Fra i cento Murmuri - dell'Ora bruna ..."). Music: Paolo Tosti (1881 /82)
• Lombard Canzonen and romances, set to music by Nicolò Massa et al
• Inno al Ticino (Hymn of the Canton Ticino). Music ( 1899): Romualdo Marenco ( 1841-1907 ). - (Also set to music by Enrico Dassetto? )

Translations

• Pietro Eleazar: Medge. Music: Spyros Samaras. Premiere: December 11, 1888 Rome (Teatro Costanzi )
• Victor Léon and Leo Stein: La vedova allegra ( The Merry Widow ). Operetta. Music: Franz Lehár
• Alfred Maria Willner and Robert Bodanzky: Il conte di Lussemburgo ( The Count of Luxembourg ). Operetta. Music: Franz Lehár
• Alfred Maria Willner and Robert Bodanzky: Amore di Zingaro (Gypsy Love). Operetta. Music: Franz Lehár
• Victor Léon: Il figlio del Principe ( The Prince's child ). Operetta. Music: Franz Lehár
• Leo Stein: Sangue polacco (Poland blood). Operetta. Music: Oskar Nedbal
• Leo Stein and Karl Lindau: Il mangiadonne ( The Woman Eater ) operetta. Music: Eysler