Word: mascagni
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...Pietro Mascagni had one flash of genius. He was 26, a penniless ex-conductor of a fourth-rate itinerant Italian opera company, when he heard of a prize contest for a new one-act opera. In eight feverish days and nights he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, a fast-moving, lyric tale of love and murder in a Sicilian square at Eastertide. It won the prize, got its composer 40 curtain calls at its first performance in May 1890, and subsequently the Order of the Crown of Italy. In Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein produced Cavalleria in English, and the Metropolitan Opera...
Stocky Pietro Mascagni tried 14 times to repeat his success. (Shrewish Signora Mascagni, a peasant girl wrapped in furs on the profits of Cavalleria, jealously selected the casts of all 15). But the audiences that cheered and wept over Cavalleria booed and hissed its pedantic successors...
...Pietro Mascagni, 80-year-old composer of Cavalleria Rusticana, who has long been a favorite of Mussolini's Black Shirts...
...Pietro Mascagni, 79, Italy's famed one-hit composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), was reported bundled into the safety of Vatican City. He saw Cavalleria first produced 53 years ago; his last production was a 1935 flopera about Nero...
...Some others: Beethoven, Debussy, Borodin, Charpentier, Leoncavallo, Mascagni...