Carlo Lombardo dei Baroni Lombardo di San Chirico (

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, 28 November 1869 –

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, 19 December 1959) known also under the composer-pseudonyms Léon Bard, Leo Bard, Leblanc and M. Fernandez, was an Italian

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...

impresario, comedian, librettist, publisher and "composer" of

pasticcio In music, a ''pasticcio'' or ''pastiche'' is an opera or other musical work composed of works by different composers who may or may not have been working together, or an adaptation or localization of an existing work that is loose, unauthorized, ...

productions of other composers' music. He is regarded in Italy as the father of the late 19th and early 20th Century revival in Italian operetta. Lombardo was responsible, in a somewhat debatable manner, for getting

Pietro Mascagni Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece '' Cavalleria rusticana'' caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ...

to write the operetta '' Sì''. His brother was the conductor and composer Costantino Lombardo. His publishing house, Lombardo Editore, continues to publish sheet music for operettas.

Operettas and pasticcios

*''La Regina del Fonografo (The Queen of the Phonograph)'', music Carlo Lombardo (Leon Bard), libretto Carlo Lombardo e Gil Blas, ca. 1915 *''La duchessa del Bal Tabarin'', 1917 *''Madama di Tebe'', libretto and music by Lombardo, Milan, 7 March 1918 *'' Sì'', music by

, Rome,

Teatro Quirino The Teatro Quirino is an opera house in Rome opened in 1871. It hosted the premiere of Pietro Mascagni's operetta '' Sì''. Its historical name has been joined by the recognition for one of the most acclaimed Italian theatrical actors of the tw ...

, 13 December 1919 *''Il re di Chez-Maxim'', music Mario Pasquale Costa, 1919 *''La danza delle libellule'', music by

Franz Lehár Franz Lehár ( ; ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is '' The Merry Widow'' (''Die lustige Witwe''). Life and career L ...

and Carlo Lombardo, Milan 3 May 1922 *', music Mario Pasquale Costa, Turin, 16 December 1922 *', music Virgilio Ranzato and Carlo Lombardo, Milan, Teatro Lirico, 23 November 1923 *', music Virgilio Ranzato, Milan, 18 December 1925 *''La casa innamorata'', libretto Renato Simoni 1929

Recordings

* ''La duquesa de Bal Tabarin'' – Spanish

zarzuela () is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name o ...

version of the Italian operetta – Elsa del Campo, Tomás Álvarez, Dolores Pérez, Santiago Ramalle, Coros de Radio Nacional de España, Orquesta de Cámara de Madrid, Enrique Estela, director

References

External links

Biography
at Lombardo Editore
Libretto for ''Il paese dei campanelli''
in Italian on archive.org 1869 births 1959 deaths Composers from Naples {{Italy-composer-stub