Domenico Monleone

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Domenico Monleone (January 4, 1875 – 15 January 1942) was an Italian composer of operas, most noted for his opera Cavalleria Rusticana of 1907, which for a while rivalled the success of Mascagni's work of the same name which was from the same source.

The work was the third opera to be based on Verga’s short story, Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni‘s famous opera (1890) being the first, and Gastaldon’s Mala Pasqua (1891) being the second.

Mascagni and his lawyers intervened and Monleone change the opera ‘beyond recognition’ ^[1] setting the music to a new liberetto. In this form it was presented as La Giostra dei Falchi in 1914.

There have been recent revivals of Monleone's original Cavalleria Rusticana in Tirana (Albania) and (more successfully) in Montpelier (France) in 2001.

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Cavalleria Rusticana, 2 May 1907, Amsterdam

Una Novella del Boccaccio, 26 May 1909, Genoa

Alba Eroica, 5 May 1910, Genoa

L'Arabesca, 3 November 1913, Rome

La Giostra dei Falchi - the music of Cavalleria Rusticana (above) to a new libretto, 17 April 1914, Turin

Suona la ritirata, 23 May 1916, Milan

Fauvette, 3 February 1926, Genoa

Il Mistero, 7 May 1921, Venice, revised 1934,Turin

Scheggio Campana, 1928, Genoa

La Sveglia d'una notte ossìa La Ronda di notte del Rembrant, 1933 Genoa

Notte di Nozze, 17 September 1940, Bergamo

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