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    Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni,...
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  • Larson. Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished...
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  • name, in turn based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, which is itself based on the 1851 novel Scenes...
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    by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva (in four acts – premiered at the Teatro Regio, 1 February 1893) La bohème, libretto by Luigi Illica and...
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    an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on...
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  • Burdett Money-Coutts Richard Strauss: Hugo von Hofmannsthal Puccini: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Satie: Contamine, Plato (when composing Socrate:...
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    Madama Butterfly (category Libretti by Luigi Illica)
    acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly"...
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    opera Madama Butterfly (1904) by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Cio-Cio San (Butterfly) on stage...
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  • Puccini's opera Tosca from 1900, composed to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung in act 3 by Mario Cavaradossi (tenor)...
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    La bohème (category Libretti by Luigi Illica)
    composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri...
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  • as Luigi), singer-songwriter Luigi Denza (1846–1922), composer Luigi Gatti (1740–1817), classical composer Luigi Illica (1857–1919), librettist Luigi Infantino...
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    (1857–1914), Bishop of Bergamo and mentor of the future Pope John XXIII Luigi Illica (1857–1919), librettist, author, and co-author (with Giuseppe Giacosa)...
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    Manon Lescaut (Puccini) (category Libretti by Luigi Illica)
    acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva [it], based on the 1731 novel Histoire...
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    the burg's appearances in movies such as Ladyhawke. Opera librettist Luigi Illica, known for his long collaboration with composer Giacomo Puccini, but...
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    ero piccina in Pietro Mascagni's opera Iris (1898), on a libretto by Luigi Illica, may have been inspired by this print. The main character Iris describes...
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    Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Uruguay Lyrics by Luigi Illica and Héctor Cipriano Quesada, music by Héctor Panizza, it is sung during...
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    4 acts Italian Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Olivia 1 February 1893 Teatro Regio La bohème Opera 4 acts Italian Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa...
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  • subsequent opera version, Tosca, composed by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It was released in the United States as The Story...
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    La Wally (category Libretti by Luigi Illica)
    an opera in four acts by composer Alfredo Catalani, to a libretto by Luigi Illica, first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 20 January 1892. It was Catalani's...
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    Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana."...
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    Andrea Chénier (category Libretti by Luigi Illica)
    opera in four acts by Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed on 28 March 1896 at La Scala, Milan. The story is...
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    La Fundación Excelencia – Spain 2017: XXX International "Luigi Illica Prize" – Premio Illica, Italy 2017: Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die...
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    and Luigi Illica. He also wrote the librettos used by Puccini for La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly in conjunction with Luigi Illica. Illica supplied...
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    and fortune. In collaboration with librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica he created his three most relevant operas: La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900)...
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  • premiered previously that year in Naples and is based on a libretto by Luigi Illica with many naturalistic elements, which gave space to Samaras' musical...
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  • opera Madama Butterfly with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Soprano Ying Huang, tenor Richard Troxell, mezzo-soprano...
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    Academia.edu: Cecilia Giovanelli, "Tra poesia e pittura: il Nirvana di Luigi Illica e Le cattive madri di Giovanni Segantini" in "Otto/Novecento", No. 2...
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  • fallen for each other. The aria was composed by Puccini with libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It contains an original feature that Puccini introduced...
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    Antonín Dvořák, Jaroslav Kvapil; Alfredo Catalani, Luigi Illica; Antonio Vivaldi; Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa; Giacomo Puccini, Giovacchino...
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  • one of the most romantic passages in all of opera. The libretto is by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Rodolfo and Mimì have met for the first time a...
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