Enrico Golisciani (25 December 1848 – 6 February 1919) was an Italian author, born in Naples. He is best known for his opera librettos, but also published a slim volume of verses for music, entitled Pagine d'Album (Milano, Ricordi, 1885); many more of his poems intended to be set to music were published in the Gazzetta Musicale di Milano.
Selected librettos
- Carlo di Borgogna (Pietro Musone – Naples, Teatro Mercadante, 22 March 1876)
- Lida Wilson (Ferdinando Bonamici – Pisa, Teatro Nuovo, 31 January 1878)
- Il Conte di San Ronano (Nicola De Giosa – Naples, Teatro Bellini, 12 May 1878)
- Griselda (Giulio Cottrau – Turin, Teatro Alfieri, 25 September 1878)
- Il ritratto di Perla (Cesare Rossi – Naples, Circolo Unione, 7 January 1879)
- Sogno d'amore (Cesare Bernardo Bellini – Naples, Casino dell'Unione, 12 January 1880)
- I cavalieri di Malta (Antonio Nani) – Valletta, Royal Opera House 16 January 1880)
- Nella (Francesco Paolo Frontini – Catania, Teatro Comunale, 31 March 1881)
- Rabagas (Nicola De Giosa – Rome, Teatro Argentina, 23 March 1882)
- Cordelia dei Neri (Ferdinando Aldieri – La Valletta, Teatro Reale, 9 May 1884)
- Marion Delorme (Amilcare Ponchielli – Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 17 March 1885)
- Cimbelino (Niccolò van Westerhout – Naples, private performance, December 1887)
- Marina (Umberto Giordano – composed in 1888, but not performed)
- Gina (Francesco Cilea – Naples, Collegio di musica, 9 February 1889)
- Bianca di Nevers (Adolfo Baci – Rovigo, Teatro Sociale, 1 November 1889)
- A Santa Lucia (Pierantonio Tasca – Berlin, Kroll Opera House 1892)
- Max (Mary Rosselli Nissim and Giuseppe Menichetti - Florence, 1898)
- Il segreto di Susanna (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – Munich, Hoftheater, 4 December 1909)
- L'amore medico (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – Dresden, Hoftheater, 4 December 1913)
Translations into Italian
- Il pipistrello (Nicola De Giosa – Italian premiere at Naples, Società Filarmonica, 28 January 1875)
Poems set to music
Romances:
- Preso a morte, words by E. Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Maddaloni, 1878
- Abbandonata, words by E. Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Ricordi, 1878
- Biglietto amoroso, words by E. Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Benenati, 1878
- Non sei più tu, words by E. Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Benenati, 1878
- Un fiore sul verone , words by Enrico Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Ricordi, 1883
References
- Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1995). The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-03487-5.
- This article was originally translated from this version of its counterpart in the Italian Misplaced Pages.
- 19th-century Italian poets
- Italian male poets
- Italian opera librettists
- 1848 births
- 1919 deaths
- 19th-century Neapolitan people
- Italian male dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century Italian male writers
- 20th-century Italian male writers