Edipo re
Music by Ruggero Leoncavallo · libretto by Giovacchino Forzano · premiered 1920
Edipo Re is an opera generally attributed to Ruggero Leoncavallo, although there is some dispute about the authorship.
The libretto is by Giovacchino Forzano.
It had its premiere in Chicago in 1920. The opera was published posthumously in 1920 and was completed and orchestrated by Giovanni Pennacchio.
Leoncavallo biographer Konrad Dryden disputes whether Leoncavallo composed the opera at all, stating that "it is extremely doubtful whether Edipo Re, Maschera nuda or the short operetta Il primo bacio had anything to do with the composer at all." Other sources continue to attribute it to Leoncavallo with completion by Pennacchio. Edipo Re was premiered by the Chicago Opera in 1920.
It had its Italian operatic premiere in 1958, although a performance was broadcast on Italian radio in 1939. The plot of Edipo Re is based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, although the libretto excluded most of the choruses.
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About the Composer
Ruggero Leoncavallo is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Der Roland von Berlin (1840)
- La bohème (1851)
- Chatterton (1876)
- I Medici (1893)
- Are You There? (1913)