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ESSAYS ON THE MONTEMEZZI-d’ANNUNZIO NAVE
Edited, Annotated and introduced by David Chandler
pp Published by DURRANT Publishing
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This illustrated book, the first in English on Italian composer Italo Montemezzi (), is a documentary record of the creation and critical reception of his opera "La Nave".
It includes annotated translations of contemporary reviews of the first productions of the opera, in , , and
The international triumph of L’amore dei Tre Re () saw the composer widely hailed as Puccini’s successor.
Italo montemezzi biography books
That opera, setting a spoken play to music without adaptation, seemed to throw the door open to a new era of Italian music theatre. Encouraged, Montemezzi proceeded to set to music another play : La Nave, a violent and unabashedly nationalistic tragedy by Italy’s most famous living writer Gabriele d’Annunzio.
He believed the operatic Nave () to be his mast