Giuseppe Adami

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Giuseppe Adami

Giuseppe Adami (November 4, 1878 in Verona

Verona

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– October 12, 1946 in Milan

Milan

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) was an Italian

Italy

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librettist

Libretto

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, known for his collaboration works with 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....
for La rondine
La rondine

La rondine is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian language libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by A. M. Willner and Heinz Reichert....
(1917), 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....
(1918) and Turandot
Turandot

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi....
(1926).

Adami also wrote several plays such as I fioi di Goldoni, Una capanna e il tuo cuore (1913), Capelli bianchi (1915), Felicita Colombo (1935) and Nonna Felicita (1936).

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Giuseppe Adami (November 4, 1878 in Verona

Verona

Milan

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) was an Italian

Italy

Libretto

Giacomo Puccini

University of Padua

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in Law

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but dedicated his career as a writer, theatre playwright, and then music critic. After the death of Puccini, Adami published a collection of Puccini’s letters in Epistolario (1928). He also published his personal recollections, Giacomo Puccini (1935), which was one of the earliest biographies of the composer. He wrote a second biography Il romanzo della vita di Giacomo Puccini ("The life of Giacomo Puccini") in 1942.

Adami also wrote librettos for other composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
s including Zandonai

Riccardo Zandonai

Riccardo Zandonai was an Italy opera composer....
’s La via della finestra (1919); Franco Vittadini

Franco Vittadini

Franco Vittadini was an Italian composer and conductor. As a composer he is mostly known for his compositions in opera and sacred music.Born in Pavia, he began his musical studies in 1903 at the Milan Conservatory, but left prematurely because of a disagreement with the director, Giuseppe Gallignani....
’s Anima allegra (1921) and Nazareth (1925). He was a music critic for La sera (Milan) and for the review La comedia from 1931 to 1934. Adami acted as publicist with the house of Ricordi

Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi is a european classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy....
to the end of his life.

External links

Vocal score from Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection