Giulietta e Romeo

Opera

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Date Written:

  • 1921

Date of First Performance:

  • Feb 14, 1922
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Composition

Composer

Riccardo Zandonai

Riccardo Zandonai (28 May 1883 - 5 June 1944) was an Italian opera composer. Zandonai was born in Sacco di Rovereto, then part of Austria-Hungary. As a young man, he showed such aptness in his musical studies that he entered the Pesaro Conservatorio in 1899 and completed his studies in 1902; he...
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Adaptation

Adapted From

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet and Macbeth, is...
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