Word: montemezzi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Composer Italo Montemezzi wrote L'Amore dei Tre Re, Poet Sem Benelli provided him with a libretto which cried for music of exquisite passion and tenderness. The fact that parts of it recall the music of Tristan & Isolde never seemed important. Montemezzi's score has surge and spontaneity of its own, enough to arouse high hopes for his one-act La Notte di Zoraima (The Night of Zoraima), given its U. S. premiere last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...content. Choruses had momentum but little real vitality. The love music was pallid and unaffecting compared with L'Amore, where Fiora forgets even the stalking blind king who she knows is coming to kill her. In a box last week sat Mary Garden, greatest of Fioras, with Signora Montemezzi, whose husband would appear more & more to be a one-opera composer...
...London's opera, although on the upgrade so far as quality is concerned, is still of shorter duration than that of most capital cities. This year its ten-week season will be distinguished by the performance of two complete Ring cycles, by the addition to the repertoire of Montemezzi's L'Amore del Tre Re and Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. Among new singers will be Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Edith Mason of the Chicago Civic Opera. Soprano Rosa Ponselle, sensation of last year, will return...