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Giovacchino Forzano (19 November 1884, Borgo San Lorenzo
Borgo San Lorenzo

Borgo San Lorenzo is a comune in the Province of Florence in the Italy region Tuscany, located about 20 km northeast of Florence. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 16,761 and an area of 146.1 km?....
, Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
 — 18 October 1970, Rome
Rome

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) was an Italian
Italy

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 playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
, librettist, stage director, and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
. A resourceful writer, he produced opera librettos for most of the major Italian composers of the early twentieth century, including the librettos for Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
's Suor Angelica
Suor Angelica

Suor Angelica is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico....
 and Gianni Schicchi
Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dante The Divine Comedy....
.

ano studied medicine before embarking on a brief career as an opera
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tic baritone
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Giovacchino Forzano (19 November 1884, Borgo San Lorenzo
Borgo San Lorenzo

Borgo San Lorenzo is a comune in the Province of Florence in the Italy region Tuscany, located about 20 km northeast of Florence. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 16,761 and an area of 146.1 km?....
, Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
 — 18 October 1970, Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
, librettist, stage director, and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
. A resourceful writer, he produced opera librettos for most of the major Italian composers of the early twentieth century, including the librettos for Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
's Suor Angelica
Suor Angelica

Suor Angelica is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico....
 and Gianni Schicchi
Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dante The Divine Comedy....
.

Biography

Forzano studied medicine before embarking on a brief career as an opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
tic baritone
Baritone

Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
. He then began studying law
LAW

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 and, after finishing his diploma, became a freelance journalist
Journalist

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, contributing regularly to several of Italy’s major newspapers. In 1914 he met and befriended Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italians composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the List of important operas....
 who asked him to write the librettos for his Il trittico
Il trittico

Il trittico is the title of a collection of three one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini....
, a collection of three one-act operas. Forzano agreed to write the librettos for two of the works, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, but declined Il tabarro
Il tabarro

Il tabarro is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian language libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold's La Houppelande....
 saying that he preferred to create his own plots. Il trittico premiered at the Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. Peter Gelb is the company's general manager and James Levine is music director....
 on December 14, 1918 to high acclaim. With the success of Il trittico, Forzanno was soon approached by other composers to provide librettos, including Alberto Franchetti
Alberto Franchetti

Alberto Franchetti was an Italy opera composer. A nobleman of independent means, he studied first in Venice, then in Dresden under Felix Draeseke, and finally at the Munich Conservatory under Josef Rheinberger....
, Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer. His opera Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the operatic repertory, appearing as number 14 on Opera America's 2007 list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America....
, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was an Italy composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as Il segreto di Susanna . A number of his works were based on plays by Carlo Goldoni, including Le donne curiose , I quattro rusteghi and Il campiello ....
, Umberto Giordano
Umberto Giordano

Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples....
, and Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni

Pietro Mascagni was an Italy composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece, Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and singlehandedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music....
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In 1920 Forzano became a stage director at La Scala
La Scala

The Teatro alla Scala , in Milan, Italy, is one of the world's most famous opera houses. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778, under the name Nuovo Regio Ducal Teatro alla Scala with Antonio Salieri Europa riconosciuta....
, serving in the capacity through 1930. He later became a director for propaganda films for the National Fascist Party
National Fascist Party

The National Fascist Party was an Italy party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Fascism . The party ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under an authoritarian system....
 under Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, Order of the Bath Sovereign Military Order of Malta Order of the Tower and Sword was an Italy politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
. In 1957 he published a volume of memoirs, Come li ho conosciuti, which reveal interesting perspectives on the composers with whom he collaborated.

Opera librettos

  • Notte di leggenda (Alberto Franchetti, 1915)
  • Gianni Schicchi
    Gianni Schicchi

    Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dante The Divine Comedy....
     (Giacomo Puccini, 1918)
  • Suor Angelica
    Suor Angelica

    Suor Angelica is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico....
     (Giacomo Puccini, 1918)
  • Edipo re (Ruggero Leoncavallo, 1920)
  • Il piccolo Marat
    Il piccolo Marat

    Il piccolo Marat is a dramma lirico or opera in three acts by Pietro Mascagni, 1921, from a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano....
     (Pietro Mascagni, 1921)
  • Glauco (Alberto Franchetti, 1922)
  • Gli amanti sposi (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 1925)
  • Sly
    Sly (opera)

    Sly, ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on the Prologue to William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew....
     (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 1927)
  • Il re
    Il re

    Il re is a novella or opera in one act and three scenes by composer Umberto Giordano to an Italian language libretto by Giovacchino Forzano....
     (Umberto Giordano, 1929)