Archivio d’Annunzio Rivista di Studi comparati

Journal | Archivio d’Annunzio
Journal Issue | 1 | 2014
Research Article | D’Annunzio and the Opera: Libretto or Poetry?

D’Annunzio and the Opera: Libretto or Poetry?

Abstract

Gabriele d’Annunzio’s relationship with music may be considered under two points of view: firstly, his musical tastes, that is his Wagnerism and, later, his anti-Wagnerism and his envisioning of a ‘Latin musical drama’; secondly, the use of his poems in chamber vocal music and particularly in romanzas. An overall analysis of d’Annunzio’s texts for music shows how, depending on the composer with whom he cooperated, his texts are alternatively conservative, up-to-date or avant-gardist. A full transcription of d’Annunzio’s autograph version of his libretto for Alberto Franchetti’s La figlia di Iorio (The daughter of Iorio), containing the outline of the first act and a draft of the first and the third act, offers a glimpse on the stages of elaboration of his tragedy.


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Published Oct. 30, 2014 | Language: it

Copyright © 2014 Adriana Guarnieri. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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