Opera in the Repertoire · Modern
Il dottor Antonio
Music by Franco Alfano · libretto by Mario Ghisalberti
Il dottor Antonio is a 1949 opera by Franco Alfano to a libretto by Mario Ghisalberti based on the 1855 nationalist novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Ruffini.
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About the Composer
Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Risurrezione (1904), Sakùntala (1921), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1936), and for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime.
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Other Operas by Franco Alfano
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1936)