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Last week, in Manhattan, was produced, for the first time in the U. S., Giovanni Gallurese, an opera written 20 years ago by Italo Montemezzi, famed composer. The house was packed with operagoers who, having heard from season to season Montemezzi's exquisite L'Amore del Tre Re, were curious to see how so great a composer wrote when he was younger. Among these operagoers sat the composer himself, shyly smiling...
Music. Banal, melodious cantilenas, shreds of the wild echoes Verdi set flying?melody that has been shut up from the air until, to modern taste, it has become stiff, flaky, like stale candy. In the eight years that intervened between Giovanni Gallurese and L'Amore del Tre Re, Montemezzi must have worked hard, critics decided...
Artists. Miss Müller, soprano, sang with a sincerity marred only by irrelevant smiles in certain love-scenes; Signer Lauri-Volpi (Gallurese) turned himself into a human cornet; Conductor Tullio Serafin imposed upon the wavering score his own electrifying power. At the close of each act, Montemezzi appeared before the curtain, bowed, smiled. On one of these occasions, a lackey delivered to him a floral wreath...
...Italo Montemezzi, the author of "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" and three other operas which have been received favorably both in Europe and in this country, will attend the performance as the guest of the opera company for the evening. Signor Montemezzi is the most famous of living Italian composers, while "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" is generally considered his greatest work. Its Boston-premiere took place in 1914, only one year after its original production in Milan. The story was written by Sem Benelli, one of Italy's foremost living laywrights, and the author of many other works...
year was presented in Chicago. All of his works are of a tragical and symbolical nature, as their plots reveal. Montemezzi has appeared only once in the United States in 1918, when he was present at the initial performance of "La Nave...