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Luigi Illica (9 May 1857, Castell'Arquato
Castell'Arquato

Castell'Arquato is an Italy town located on the first hills of Val D?Arda in Emilia-Romagna of the province of Piacenza, approximately 30 km from Piacenza and 35 km from Parma....
, near Piacenza
Piacenza

Piacenza is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza....
, Italy
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....
 - 16 December 1919, Colombarone) was an Italian librettist who wrote 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....
 (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa
Giuseppe Giacosa

Giuseppe Giacosa was an Italian poet, playwright and Libretto.He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa, near Turin. His father was a magistrate....
), Alfredo Catalani
Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani , was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley and La Wally , which was written to a libretto by Luigi Illica and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andr? lontana"....
, 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 other important Italian composers. His most famous opera libretto
Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, Musical theater, and ballet....
s are those for La bohème
La bohème

La boh?me is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Sc?nes de la vie de boh?me by Henri Murger....
, Tosca
Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
, Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa....
 and Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier

Andrea Ch?nier is an opera in four acts by the verismo composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, Andr? Ch?nier , who was executed during the French Revolution....
.

Illica's personal life sometimes imitated his libretti.






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Illica
Luigi Illica (9 May 1857, Castell'Arquato
Castell'Arquato

Castell'Arquato is an Italy town located on the first hills of Val D?Arda in Emilia-Romagna of the province of Piacenza, approximately 30 km from Piacenza and 35 km from Parma....
, near Piacenza
Piacenza

Piacenza is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza....
, Italy
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....
 - 16 December 1919, Colombarone) was an Italian librettist who wrote 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....
 (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa
Giuseppe Giacosa

Giuseppe Giacosa was an Italian poet, playwright and Libretto.He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa, near Turin. His father was a magistrate....
), Alfredo Catalani
Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani , was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley and La Wally , which was written to a libretto by Luigi Illica and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andr? lontana"....
, 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 other important Italian composers. His most famous opera libretto
Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, Musical theater, and ballet....
s are those for La bohème
La bohème

La boh?me is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Sc?nes de la vie de boh?me by Henri Murger....
, Tosca
Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
, Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa....
 and Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier

Andrea Ch?nier is an opera in four acts by the verismo composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, Andr? Ch?nier , who was executed during the French Revolution....
.

Illica's personal life sometimes imitated his libretti. The reason he is always photographed with his head slightly turned is because he lost his right ear in a duel over a woman.

When silent film
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
s based on Illica's operas were made, his name appeared in large letters on advertisements because distributors could only guarantee that his stories would be used, and not that they would be accompanied by the music of the appropriate composer.

Librettos


Here is a list of some librettos written by Luigi Illica and set to music by major composers. The dates in brackets indicate the year of the creation of the opera.

  • La Wally
    La Wally

    La Wally is a four-act opera by Alfredo Catalani, composed on a libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed at La Scala, Milan on January 20, 1892, only months after both Verdi's Otello and Puccini's Manon Lescaut received their premieres....
     (Catalani
    Alfredo Catalani

    Alfredo Catalani , was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley and La Wally , which was written to a libretto by Luigi Illica and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andr? lontana"....
    , 1892)
  • Cristoforo Colombo
    Cristoforo Colombo (opera)

    Cristoforo Colombo is an opera in four acts and an epilogue by Alberto Franchetti to an Italian language libretto by Luigi Illica. It was written in 1892 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' Christopher_Columbus#First_voyage....
     (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....
    , 1892)
  • Manon Lescaut
    Manon Lescaut (Puccini)

    Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by the Abb? Pr?vost.The libretto is in Italian....
     (Puccini, 1893)
  • La Bohème
    La bohème

    La boh?me is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Sc?nes de la vie de boh?me by Henri Murger....
      (Puccini, 1896)
  • Andrea Chénier
    Andrea Chénier

    Andrea Ch?nier is an opera in four acts by the verismo composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, Andr? Ch?nier , who was executed during the French Revolution....
     (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....
    , 1896)
  • Iris
    Iris (opera)

    Iris is an opera in three acts by Pietro Mascagni to an original Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. Its first performance was at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 22 November 1898....
     (Mascagni, 1898)
  • Tosca
    Tosca

    Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou drama, La Tosca....
      (Puccini, 1900)
  • Le maschere
    Le maschere

    Le maschere is an opera in a Prologue and three acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian language libretto by Luigi Illica.The work was Mascagni's homage to Rossini and to the Italian opera buffa and commedia dell'arte traditions....
     (Mascagni, 1901)
  • Germania (Franchetti, 1902)
  • Siberia
    Siberia (opera)

    Opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano. Libretto by Luigi Illica. There is no direct source for the plot of Siberia and it is quite possible that this is an original work by Illica....
     (Giordano, 1903)
  • Madama Butterfly
    Madama Butterfly

    Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa....
      (Puccini, 1904)
  • Isabeau
    Isabeau

    Isabeau is a leggenda drammatica or opera in three parts by Pietro Mascagni, 1911, from an Italian language libretto by Luigi Illica. Mascagni conducted its first performance on June 2, 1911 at the Teatro Coliseo, Buenos Aires....
     (Mascagni, 1911)


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