Alfredo Catalani, surrounded by the heroines of his operas, by Francesco Petroni, 1954
Baluardo San Paolino
Lucca, June 2024
"Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas 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.’ This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film Diva. Catalani's other operas were much less successful." (Alfredo Catalani, Wikipedia)
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