Giuseppe Lillo

Giuseppe Lillo ( born February 26, 1814 Gala Tina, † February 4, 1863 in Aversa ) was an Italian composer who was particularly extraordinary success with his operas.

Life and work

Lillo Giosuè father, conductor and composer himself, encouraged his son early on. He studied music and piano and was adopted at the age of twelve years because of "extraordinary merit " to a free studies at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella Napoletan. From childhood Lillo revered the music of the bel canto operas, especially the Sicilian Vincenzo Bellini. Even as a boy of fourteen reussierte the young pianist in the salons of Lecce.

1834 his first stage work, La moglie per Ventiquattro ore ('The wife for twenty four hours ') was premiered at the Theater of the Collegio Reale in Naples. Just three years later he was able to place a plant at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples: The success of the opera Odda di Bernaver ( Agnes Bernauer ') helped him to regional fame. The work Rosmunda in Ravenna arrived at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice in a prominent place ( the ceremonial reopening after a fire ) to premiere and was soon re-enacted at the relevant opera houses of Italy.

In 1849 he went for a few months in Paris, where he met the great opera composer in France, including Auber, Meyerbeer, Halévy, Adam, Thomas and Carafa.

Lillo composed 18 operas, both darkly romantic tragedies, but also some Buffoopern as L' osteria di Andujar. They are in the tradition of the Italian bel canto opera of the mid 19th century and were, in terms of their melodic, compared with works Gaetano Donizetti. Among his most famous works was Caterina Howard Dumas père on Catherine Howard, who came out in Naples in 1849 with the participation of soprano Eugenia Tadolini and the baritone Achille De Bassini and no less success had as Verdi's Macbeth or Rossini Mosè in Egitto, in the same year Naples were played.

Since the 1840s suffered from nervous disorders Lillo, after 1860 he was admitted to the psychiatric hospital in Aversa, where he lived until his death.

Apart from his operas Lillo also composed numerous sacred vocal works, symphonies, songs and piano music. He had a piano professor at the Conservatory of Naples and was responsible for the inspection of its branches from 1845. He was honored by membership in the Royal Academy of Naples and the Filarmonica Bellini in Palermo, in the center of his native town, a street is named after him.

Stage Works

  • La moglie per 24 ore ossia L' ammalato di buona salute (, Wife for 24 hours or in the good health sufferers '); Naples, Teatrino del Reale Collegio di Musica di San Sebastiano, 1834
  • Il gioiello (' The Jewel '), dramma per Musica in two acts; Naples, Teatro Nuovo, 1835
  • Odda di Bernaver ( Agnes Bernauer '), melodrama in two acts, libretto by: Emmanuele Bidera; Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1837
  • Rosmunda in Ravenna, Tragedia Lirica, Libretto: Luisa Amalia Paladini; Venice, Teatro la Fenice, 1837
  • Alisa di Rieux; Rome, Teatro Valle, 1838
  • Il conte di Chalais, Melodramma Tragico in three acts, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano; Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1839
  • L' osteria di Andujar, Azione Comica in three acts Libretto: L. Tarantini; Naples, Teatro del Fondo, 1840
  • Cristina di Svezia ( Christina of Sweden '), Tragedia Lirica in three parts Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano; Florence, Teatro della Pergola, 1840
  • Lara, Tragedia Lirica in two acts, libretto by Leopoldo Tarantini; Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1842
  • Caterina Howard ( Catherine Howard '), Melodramma Tragico in four acts, libretto by Giorgio Giacchetti; Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1849
  • La delfina, melodrama in three acts, libretto by Marco D' arienzo; Naples, Teatro Nuovo, 1850
  • La gioventù di Shakespeare ossia Il sogno d' una notte estiva (, Youth Shakespeare or A Midsummer Night's Dream '), Commedia Lirica in three acts Libretto: Giuseppe Giannini Sesto; Naples, Teatro Nuovo, 1851
  • Ser babbeo, Comedy in three acts, libretto by: Emmanuele Bardare; Naples, Teatro Nuovo, 1853
  • Il figlio della schiava (, The son of the slave '), Dramma Lirico in three acts Libretto: Giuseppe Giannini Sesto; Naples, Teatro del Fondo, 1853
  • Le disgrazie di un bel giovane ossia Il zio nipote e il ('The misfortunes of a beautiful youth or His uncle and his nephew ' ), other data unknown
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