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Pietro Mascagni

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Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945) was an Italian composer best known for the one-act verismo opera Cavalleria Rusticana (premiered 1890). He wrote operas and orchestral music spanning late-Romantic and verismo styles.

Born 1863, died 1945. Mascagni achieved fame with Cavalleria Rusticana in 1890 and is considered a key figure in the verismo movement; he also composed operas such as Guglielmo Ratcliff, Isabeau, L'amico Fritz and Iris. His orchestral writing and intermezzos are frequently praised.

Three enthusiastic DeBaser reviews highlight Mascagni's range from verismo to late-Romantic lyricism. Cavalleria Rusticana remains his signature, while Guglielmo Ratcliff and Isabeau show his broader dramatic and poetic ambitions. Reviewers praise orchestral imagination, vocal challenges and memorable intermezzos.

For:opera lovers, classical-music listeners, students of verismo and Romantic opera

 Guglielmo Ratcliff is a work fully definable as romantic, a story of violent passions and spectral suggestions, set against the rugged, fascinating backdrop of the Scottish Highlands.

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 On the evening of May 17, 1890, at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, the world premiere of a one-act melodrama written by an unknown musician from Livorno, Pietro Mascagni from Cerignola, was staged.

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 A composer of many souls, Pietro Mascagni had a special feeling with Romanticism, which unfortunately not many people are aware of.

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