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Le maschere (The Masks) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. The work was Mascagni's homage to Rossini and to the Italian opera buffa and commedia dell'arte traditions.
Mascagni appeared on the cover of Time on 6 September 1926. He moved to the Grand Hotel Plaza in Rome in 1927, a place he would not leave until his death. In 1930, Mascagni conducted La bohème in Torre del Lago, as a homage to Puccini, who had died in 1924. In 1931, Le maschere was performed at La Scala. Pinotta was premiered in San Remo on 23 ...
Moranzoni was a pupil of Pietro Mascagni and was selected by Mascagni to give his debut performances with the composer's Le maschere in 1901. Moranzoni was active internationally in the decade of the 1910s, directing the Boston Grand Opera from 1910 to 1917 and conducting in Paris and London. [1]
Pietro Mascagni – Le maschere, premieres simultaneously in six different Italien cities, January 17; Jules Massenet – Grisélidis, premieres at the Opera-Comique in Paris, November 20; Giacomo Orefice – Chopin, premieres at Teatro Lirico, Milan, November 25; Ignace Jan Paderewski – Manru, premieres at the Dresden Opera, May 29
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After Masacagni had given him permission to adapt his opera Le maschere as an operetta, Lombardo proposed writing a new operetta using re-arranged music from various other Mascagni operas. As a sample of what he was planning, Lombardo produced some music from Mascagni's dramatic opera Silvano arranged as a comic duet. Mascagni, horrified by the ...
His prolific compositional career seemed to exhaust his inventiveness a little and several of his premieres were widely criticised by the public and critics alike. Most notably Le maschere which was premiered simultaneously in seven theatres across Italy, the only success being in Rome where Mascagni himself was conducting.
In the first years of her career she sang primarily in operas by Donizetti, Rossini, and Mozart but she also appeared in two rarely performed Mascagni operas, Le maschere (as Colombina) and Sì (as Vera), as well as singing Nena in La Scala's first performance of Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnamorato.