Il cappello di paglia di Firenze
Music by Nino Rota · libretto by Nino Rota · premiered 1955 · at Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (The Florentine Straw Hat, usually titled in English language productions as The Italian Straw Hat) is an opera by Nino Rota to an Italian-language libretto by the composer and his mother, Ernesta Rota Rinaldi, based on the play Un chapeau de paille d'Italie by Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel. The opera premièred at the Teatro Massimo, Palermo, on 21 April 1955. The first performance in the United States was at the Santa Fe Opera in 1977, with Ragnar Ulfung as Fadinard, Ashley Putnam as Elena, Kathryn Day as Anaide, and Stephen Dickson as Emilio. The first New York City performance, starring Vincenzo Manno as Fadinard, took place in 1978. More recently, the opera was performed at the 2013 Wexford Festival, in Graz Opera in 2023, and at La Scala de Milán, 2024.[1]
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About the Composer
Nino Rota is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Nino Rota
- I due timidi (1950)