Word: ermanno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 72, heavyweight Italian composer of lightweight opera (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne); of a heart ailment; in Venice. He enlivened dying operatic formulas, made a great success of putting many old styles to a few new uses...
Parisians were as interested in La Scala's guest conductor as in its standout singers. The conductor was slight, thirtyish Manno Wolf-Ferrari, nephew of one of Italy's last surviving big-name operatic composers, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne...
Pleased by his Paris success, Manno is even more excited by the treat he has in store for his 71-year-old uncle, with whom he lives in Venice. In Naples next fall, Manno hopes to conduct the first Italian performance in more than 20 years of Uncle Ermanno's The Jewels of the Madonna. Mussolini had banned it because, he said, its story of Neopolitan hoodlumism gave Italy a bad name...