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Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers.
Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) that premiered at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome on January 14, 1900. Based on French playwright Victorien Sardou’s popular play La Tosca (1887), the opera is about political intrigue and romance in the days of the Napoleonic wars.
Jul 4, 2023 · Illica was 22 years old when he moved to Milan, a city that in 1879 was at the dawn of progress: the first illuminated windows in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, the first carriages and the first newsboys, in a climate of great intellectual and social ferment.
Luigi Illica è stato un commediografo e librettista italiano.
Illica, Luigi 1857–1919. PERSONAL: Born May 9, 1857, in Castell' Arquato, Italy; died December 16, 1919, in Colombarone, Italy. CAREER: Sailor, 1875–79; cofounded a radical literary review, 1881; author and playwright, 1882–93; librettist, 1892–1904.
Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers.
Puccini's partnership with the playwright/librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa was one of the most successful in the whole history of Italian opera -- a meeting of great artistic minds akin to Verdi's association with Boito and Bellini's with Romani.
