- Antonio Smareglia
Antonio Smareglia (
May 5 ,1854 –15 April 1929 ) was an Italianopera composer .Life
Antonio Smareglia was born in the town of
Pula (on theIstria n peninsula, then located inAustria-Hungary , now inCroatia ), in a house on Via Nettuno which still stands and in which there is now a small museum of his life and work. He was the sixth, but first surviving, child of an Italian father, Francesco Smareglia from Dignano - and a Croatian mother - Giulia Stiglich fromIčići . The composer chose to set his most famous opera, "Nozze Istriane ", in his father's village.Smareglia married Maria Jetti Polla, and they had five children.
He became blind at the age of 46. Various people took dictation from him including his sons Ariberto and Mario, and students and friends including Primo dalla Zonca, Gastone Zuccoli, and Vito Levi.
Smareglia died in Grado in 1929.
Works
* "
Caccia lontana " (a one-act dramatic sketch, a student work, 1879)
* "Preziosa " (opera, 1879)
* "Bianca de Cervia " (opera, 1882)
* "Re Nala " (opera, 1887)
* "Il vasallo di Szigeth " (opera, 1889)
* "Cornelio Schutt " (revised as "Pittori Fiamminghi", opera, 1893)
* "Nozze Istriane " (opera, 1895)
* "La Falena " (opera, libretto by Silvio Benco, premiered September 4, 1897 at the Teatro Rossini,Venice , conducted byGialdino Gialdini )
* "Oceana" (opera, 1903)
* "Abisso " (1914)References
*"Antonio Smareglia (1854-1929)" Sveučilišna knjižnica u Puli, 2004 / Biblioteca Universitaria di Pola, 2004
External links
* [http://www.la-poesia.it/giornale/musica/stelvio_smereglia.htm Opinioni ] at www.la-poesia.it Short biography in Italian
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