Tomaso Benvenuti

To ( m) maso Benvenuti ( born February 4, 1838 in Cavarzere, † February 26, 1906 in Rome) was an Italian composer.

Little is known about the life and musical training Benvenutis. Apparently, he was largely a self-taught musician, it is believed that he had composition lessons with Antonio Buzzolla in Venice. An early work was a Inno Pio IX after songs from Dante's Divine Comedy. Eighteen- year-old he composed for the Teatro Sociale Mantova Opera Valencia Candiani whose premiere was canceled due to problems at the dress rehearsal. His second opera, Adriana Lecouvreur was listed in the following year with moderate success at the Teatro alla Canobbiana in Milan.

Benvenuti was able to sit down with the opera Guglielmo Shakespeare, whose premiere took place in 1861 in Parma. Stella di Toledo should after its premiere at the Teatro Carlo Felice played in Genoa ( 1864) at the Teatro alla Scala; However, the opera Le aquile novels by the French composer Hippolyte Chelard it was brought forward, the performance of which ended in disaster.

Benvenuti intended then to end his career as an opera composer, and laid only with Il falconiere (UA 1878 at the Teatro Rossini in Venice) his next stage work before. Beatrice di Swabia was premiered at the Teatro la Fenice in 1890, it followed in 1895 Le Baruffe Chiozzotte. His last opera Tre milioni remained unplayed. In addition, Benvenuti also composed chamber music works, including many songs.

Operas

  • Adriana ( libretto by Leone Fortis ), 1857
  • Guglielmo Shakespeare ( libretto by Francesco Maria Piave), 1861
  • La stella di Toledo ( libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni to Don Giovanni d'Austria of Casimir Delavigne ), 1864
  • Il falconiere ( libretto by Leopoldo Marenco ), 1878
  • Beatrice di Swabia, 1890
  • Le baruffe chiozzotte ( libretto by Enrico Golisciani by Carlo Goldoni ), 1895
  • Tre milioni ( libretto: F. M. Piave)
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