Giovacchino Forzano

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

  • 2.2.1 libretti
  • 2.2.2 plays and screenplays

Life

Forzano studied medicine, law, and singing. First theater experience he gained as a baritone at small theaters in Tuscany. In parallel, he began working as a journalist; inter alia, La Nazione (Florence ), La Stampa (Turin ) and the Corriere della Sera ( Milan ).

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

During the Fascist period Forzano was involved in the production of several propaganda films and was a personal friend of Benito Mussolini, with the common, he wrote several plays, including the Napoleon drama " Hundred Days ".

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

Works

Prose

History

  • Carrara dal 27 aprile al 22 agosto '59. Tip. Artistica, Carrara 1909
  • Carrara nel 1859 da notizie raccolte 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. UA March 29, 1906 Milan ( La Scala ). - Recast: UA January 14, 1915 Milan ( Scala)
  • Lodoletta. Dramma lirico ( opera ) in 3 acts. Music: Pietro Mascagni. UA April 30, 1917 Rome (Teatro Costanzi )
  • Suor Angelica ( Sister Angelica ). Opera in one act (part 2 of Il trittico ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. UA December 14, 1918 New York (Metropolitan Opera)
  • Gianni Schicchi. Opera in one act (Part 3 of Il trittico ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. UA December 14, 1918 New York (Metropolitan Opera)
  • Edipo re. Grand opera in one act Music: Ruggero Leoncavallo (fragment, completed by Salvatore Allegra [ 1898-1993 ] ). UA 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. UA May 2, 1921 Rome (Teatro Costanzi )
  • Glauco. Opera in 3 acts. Music: Alberto Franchetti. UA 1922 Naples
  • Il Poggio finto ( 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 re-awakened sleeper ). Opera in 3 acts. Music: Ermanno Wolf- Ferrari. UA Milan December 29, 1927 (Scala)
  • Il Gonfaloniere ( Standard Bearer ). Opera. Music (1927; fragment): Alberto Franchetti
  • Il re ( The King ). Novella ( opera ) in one act Music: Umberto Giordano. UA January 12, 1929 Milan ( Scala)
  • Fiori del Brabant. Azione coreografica ( festival ). Music: Alberto Franchetti ( Kermesse ), Pietro Mascagni ( Danza dei Gianduiotti e Giacomette ), Riccardo Zandonai, Alfredo Casella, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Pizzetti Ildebrando, Ottorino Respighi. UA February 10, 1930 in Turin ( Teatro Regio, on the occasion of the wedding of Umberto of Savoy and Marie José of Belgium)
  • Don Napoleone ( Don Bonaparte ). Komische Oper. Music ( 1941): Alberto Franchetti ( not listed )

Plays and screenplays

  • 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, along with Benito Mussolini ). UA December 18, 1930 Rome ( Teatro Argentina ) German edition: One hundred days. Three acts in nine images. German Géza Herczeg. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 1933
  • Italian film version Campo di maggio (1935, written and directed by Giovacchino Forzano )
  • German film version: Hundred Days (1935; Written and directed by: Franz Wenzler, with Gustaf, Werner Krauss, Ernst Legal, Leo Peukert, Peter Voss, Elsa Wagner)
  • Film version (1933, written and directed by Giovacchino Forzano )

Productions on other works

  • Ottorino Respighi / Claudio Guastalla (1880-1948): Belfagor. Premiere: April 26, 1923 Milan (Teatro alla Scala)
  • Gabriele D' Annunzio: La figlia di Iorio. 1927 at the open-air theater of the Vittoriale

Films (selection )

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