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Capuana
Capuana is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Franco Capuana, Italian conductor *Luigi Capuana Luigi Capuana (May 28, 1839 – November 29, 1915) was an Italian author and journalist and one of the main exponents of '' Verismo''. He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Catania within a year of eac ..., Italian author and journalist * Maria Capuana, Italian opera singer * Mario Capuana, Italian composer of motets and a requiem {{surname, Capuana Italian-language surnames Italian toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Capuana
Luigi Capuana (May 28, 1839 – November 29, 1915) was an Italian author and journalist and one of the main exponents of '' Verismo''. He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Catania within a year of each other. He was also one of the first Italian authors influenced by the works of Émile Zola, French author and creator of naturalism. His critical theories on naturalism envisaged the ultimate fusion of the novel into a purely scientific, impersonal, case-history. Biography Early life and education Luigi Capuana was born in Mineo, in the Province of Catania, the first of eight children. His family was wealthy, and owned property in the area. He attended the local school. In 1851 he enrolled in the Royal College of Bronte, Catania, but left after only 2 years because of bad health. However, he continued to study by teaching himself. Politically, Capuana was far more liberal than his parents, imbued as he was with a patriotism that was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Capuana
Maria Capuana (2 September 1891 – 22 February 1955) was an Italian mezzo-soprano who had a major international opera career during the first half of the 20th century. She possessed a voice with a dark timbre that she used with great expression. Born in Fano in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Capuana was the older sister of conductor Franco Capuana. She was trained in the art of singing and piano performance at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples where she was a pupil of Beniamino Carelli. She made her stage debut in 1916 at the opera house in Reggio Emilia as Amneris in Giuseppe Verdi's ''Aida''; a role which she would repeat at many major opera houses internationally later in her career and notably record for the opera's first commercial recording in 1928. Capuana soon began appearing in leading roles at major opera houses in both Italy and France and by 1920 she had already made appearances at La Scala in Milan, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Teatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Capuana
Mario Capuana (1576 in Sicily – 4 May 1647 in Noto) was an Italian composer of motets and a requiem. He was ''maestro di capella'' at the Cathedral of Noto in the Province of Syracuse from 1628 to his death in 1647. In the years before and immediately after his death were published a small flurry of works in Venice. Editions *''Messa da requiem a 4'' (Venice, posthumous 1650) – edited with Requiem (1653) of Bonaventura Rubino. 1999. A copy is preserved in the Archive of the Sing-Akademie Zu Berlin, complete with needlessly disparaging comments in the handwriting of Carl Friedrich Zelter. *''Sacro Armonie a tre voci con Basso Continuo por sonar il Clavicembalo ò altro Stromento di Mario Capuana Maestro di Capella.''Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale de Bologna. *''Mario Capuana Motetti concertati a due, tre, quattro e cinque voci'' (1649) edition 1998. – This is one of the series of Renaissance Sicilian composers including Claudio Pari, Pietro Vinci, Antonio Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Capuana
Franco Capuana (29 September 189410 December 1969) was an Italian conductor. Born in Fano in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, he was the younger brother of mezzo-soprano Maria Capuana. He became associated with the Teatro di San Carlo in 1930 and La Scala in 1937. In 1940 he conducted the premiere of Ghedini's opera '' La pulce d'oro'' at the Teatro Carlo Felice. He visited the Royal Opera House in 1946, becoming the first guest conductor of the newly formed Royal Opera, London. He died at the age of 75 on the conductor's podium in the middle of leading a performance of Rossini's '' Mosè in Egitto'' at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Notable recordings * Vincenzo Bellini - ''La sonnambula'' - Lina Pagliughi, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Cesare Siepi, Anna Maria Anelli, Wanda Ruggeri - Coro & Orchestra della RAI Torino (Warner-Fonit, 1952) * Giuseppe Verdi - ''Otello'' - Carlos Guichandut, Cesy Broggini, Giuseppe Taddei - Coro & Orchestra della RAI Torino (Warner-Fonit, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian-language Surnames
Italian (, , or , ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. It evolved from the colloquial Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent language from Latin, together with Sardinian. It is spoken by about 68 million people, including 64 million native speakers as of 2024. Italian is an official language in Italy, San Marino, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), and Vatican City; it has official minority status in Croatia, Slovene Istria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the municipalities of Santa Tereza, Encantado, and Venda Nova do Imigrante in Brazil. Italian is also spoken by large immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia. Some speakers of Italian are native bilinguals of both Italian (either in its standard form or regional varieties) and a local language of Italy, most frequently the language spoken at home in their place of origin. Italian is a major language in Europe, being one of the official l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
