Alfonso Buonomo (12 August 1829 – 28 January 1903) was an Italian composer active in Naples where all nine of his operas premiered. He also composed sacred music and salon songs. Buonomo was born in Naples and studied at the

Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella This is a list of music conservatories in Naples, Italy. Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella The Naples Conservatory of Music is a music school located in Naples, Italy. It is situated in the complex of San Pietro a Majella. It was originally ...

. His initial training there was primarily in piano and voice, but he later decided to focus on composition which he studied with

Giuseppe Lillo Giuseppe Lillo (26 February 1814 - 4 February 1863) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas which followed in the same vein of Gioachino Rossini. He also produced works for solo piano, a small amount of sacred music, and some ch ...

. He made his debut as an opera composer in 1857 with the premiere at the Teatro Nuovo of ''Cicco e Cola'', an ''

opera buffa Opera buffa (, "comic opera"; : ''opere buffe'') is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ''commedia in musica'', ''commedia per musica'', ''dramma bernesc ...

'' in three acts with a libretto by

Almerindo Spadetta Almerindo Spadetta (April 1894) was a prolific opera librettist active in Naples. He worked as a stage manager at the Teatro San Carlo, Teatro Nuovo, and Teatro del Fondo in Naples for over 40 years and wrote numerous libretti (mostly in the ''op ...

.Champlin, John Denison (ed.) (1888)
''Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians ''
Vol I, p. 243. C. Scribner's Sons

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