Pietro Mascagni
Though regarded by casual opera followers as a one-work composer, Pietro Mascagni wrote other operas of interest and some quality. Aside from Cavalleria Rusticana, the winsomely comic L'amico Fritz, the wrenchingly dramatic Iris, and Il Piccolo Marat attest to a diversity of mood and manner. Still, Mascagni's first opera was so successful that subsequent efforts simply could not equal that initial triumph. His embrace of Mussolini's Fascist regime seemed self-serving during the 1920s and 1930s; at the end, it left Mascagni discredited and impoverished.
Although his parents had conceived for their son a career in law, Mascagni did receive some private training. However, when he began to study with the director of the newly formed Istituto Musicale Livornese, his father forbade further musical studies until a bachelor uncle interceded to offer young Pietro a home and means to finance his training. When Mascagni arrived at the Milan Conservatory, he remained only two years before embarking on an unsettled career as an orchestra member and occasional conductor of touring operetta companies. Upon marriage to Lina Carbognani in 1889, he settled in Puglia as a music instructor.
To a competition mounted by the music publisher Sonzogno, Mascagni submitted his third opera, Cavalleria Rusticana, in February 1890. At its Roman premiere on May 17, an unprecedented success propelled the composer from provincial hopeful to newly minted maestro. The following year, Mascagni enjoyed a more muted achievement with L'Amico Fritz. Silvano brought a return to verismo in 1895, although its reception was less positive than that accorded Iris, a substantial success in 1899 with a hyper-intense Oriental theme. Recurrently, the composer turned to themes of loss when choosing his libretti, recalling the desolation he felt at his mother's death when he was but 10 years old. An illicit relationship with Anna Lolli, begun in 1903, lasted until Mascagni's death in 1945.
Mascagni continued to compose in the new century, completing Isabeau in 1911, Parisina in 1913, Lodoletta in 1917, and Il piccolo Marat in 1921. As with the overblown Nerone, written in 1935 to please the regime, Mascagni often explored the outer limits of vocal possibility with punishing tessituras and unrelentingly high volume. He appeared occasionally as a conductor, more positively in Italy than in an ill-conceived American tour in 1902-03.
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MASCAGNI: L'AMICO FRITZ
Opera - Lançado por Nar Classical em 13 de set. de 2022
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Pietro Mascagni: Parisina Atto IV, Guardando la Santa Teresa del Bernini, Intermezzi e Sinfonie da opere
Orchestre du Mai Musical Florentin , Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Classical - Lançado por Materiali Sonori em 4 de dez. de 2015
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Pietro Mascagni : Guglielmo Ratcliff
Opera - Lançado por RTÉ Lyric FM em 28 de out. de 2016
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Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, Intermezzo sinfonico
Staatskapelle Berlin, Pietro Mascagni
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 1 de jan. de 1927
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Mascagni: Silvano
Opera - Lançado por Elysium Recordings, Inc. em 8 de jan. de 2014
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Mascagni: Zanetto
Opera - Lançado por Elysium Recordings, Inc. em 14 de jan. de 2014
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Famous Opera Choruses
Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana, Choir of the Budapest State Opera, Orchestra of the Budapest State Opera
Opera - Lançado por Blaricum CD Company (B.C.D.) B.V. em 26 de fev. de 2014
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MASCAGNI: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Opera - Lançado por Nar Classical em 21 de jan. de 1997
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Mascagni: Le maschere, Overture (Excerpt)
Mitglieder Der Staatskapelle Berlin, Pietro Mascagni
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 1 de jan. de 1928
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Cavalleria Rusticana
Renata Castro, Franca Zanelli, Luigi Visetti
Opera - Lançado por Period Records em 16 de mar. de 1965
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Mascagni: Intermezzo
Mitglieder Der Staatskapelle Berlin, Pietro Mascagni
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 1 de jan. de 1927
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Verdi: Aida, Ballet Music
Kapelle der Staatsoper Berlin, Pietro Mascagni
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 1 de jan. de 1927
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Mascagni: Inno al sole
Mitglieder Der Staatskapelle Berlin, Pietro Mascagni
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 1 de abr. de 1927
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Cavalleria Rusticana
Opera - Lançado por Opera d'Oro em 14 de mar. de 2000
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Best Opera Singers, Vol. IX
Opera - Lançado por SB Clasic em 22 de nov. de 2002
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Best Opera Singers, Vol. I
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Beniamino Gigli
Opera - Lançado por SB Clasic em 22 de nov. de 2002
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Mascagni: Visione lirica (Excerpt)
Mitglieder Der Staatskapelle Berlin, Pietro Mascagni
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 1 de jan. de 1928
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Zanetto : Opera completa
Pietro Mascagni, Bruno Aprea, Denia Mazzola-Gavazzeni, Romina Basso
Opera - Lançado por Kicco Music em 1 de jan. de 2003
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Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo
Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma, Massimo Freccia
Classical - Lançado por Violet Hill Records em 11 de jun. de 2012
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