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	Italo Montemezzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Italo Montemezzi (May 31, 1875-May 15, 1952) was an Italian composer.
		He lived in California from 1939, but made frequent trips to Italy and returned permanently in 1949.
		As a composer, Montemezzi was admired for combining traditional Italian lyricism with a Wagnerian approach to the use of the orchestra in opera, with instrumental color influenced by the works of Debussy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italo_Montemezzi (157 words)

	L'Amore dei tre re
		What Montemezzi shares with Debussy is the principle of operating with layers of sound and vocal lines strung along in parallel, instead of with individual voices led contrapuntally; furthermore, both have a certain delight in advancing the musical action on the woodwind.
		By far the most lasting influence on Montemezzi undoubtedly came from another composer: even though it has been, and still occasionally is, constantly denied by apologists of Italian 'melodramma', there are strong traces of the music of Wagner, especially Tristan, in «L'Amore dei tre re».
		Montemezzi had only a limited interest in many of the compositional preoccupations of the time, but even this lack of interest illustrates his individuality.
	www.rodoni.ch /proscenio/cartellone/montemezzitrere/koch.html (1977 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Three Kings -- Feb. 17, 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tall, grey, bony Italo Montemezzi, 65-year-old Italian composer, is a one-good-opera man.* Montemezzi's opera, written in 1913, is L'Amore del Tre Re (The Love of Three Kings).
		It is a chronicle of ancient tabloid-headline love: a king's wife and a handsome lover; a compassionate husband; a wise, blind, bearded oldster poking about in the background.
		It is old stuff to sophisticated opera fans, but Montemezzi's surging, glowing score is as Italian as ravioli, and one of the best of its kind since Verdi.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,851032,00.html (151 words)

	Amazon.ca: Montemezzi,Italo: Search Results Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fausto Cleva Oct. 21, 31 Montemezzi, LAmore dei Tre Re Jean Tennyson (Flora); Charles Kullman (Avlto), Robert Weede (Manfredo), Ezio Pinza (Archibaldo) Italo Montemezzi Oct. 23 Strauss, Johann Jr...
		Excerpt from Page 595: "Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952) Montemezzi ranks among the lesser-known Italian opera composers of the early 20th century, yet his I Amore dei tre Re is a most effective work...
		Francesco Cilea (1866-195o) for Adriana Lecouvreur (1902), Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) for Andrea Chénier (1896), Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952) for L'amore dei tre re (1913), and Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944) for Francesca...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/classical-artist-search/Montemezzi,Italo (761 words)

	Opera World, Enhancing the Enjoyment of Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952) was born near Verona; he lived for many years in the United States but returned to Italy at the end of his life.
		Montemezzi was extremely fortunate in having Sem Benelli (1875-1949), a gifted playwright, as his librettist.
		Montemezzi's love for the orchestra, which informs every note and phrase, is matched by his passion for the voice.
	www.operaworld.com /prompter/courses/kings.shtml (613 words)

	Italo Balbo - Britannica Concise
		Italo-Albanian Church - an Eastern-rite member of the Roman Catholic communion, comprising the descendants of ancient Greek colonists in southern Italy and Sicily and 15th-century Albanian refugees from Ottoman rule.
		Calvino, Italo - Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, whose whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century.
		Montemezzi, Italo - Italian opera and symphonic composer whose masterpiece was the opera L'amore dei tre re (1913; The Love of Three Kings).
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9356415?tocId=9356415 (367 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		His is an epic performance, filled with grief, rage, and beauty, even surpassing Cesare Siepi's rendition on a now out-of-print RCA set.
		The two men in love with the heroine are sung by a pair of Americans (indeed, Pinza and Montemezzi are the only Italians in the cast)--Charles Kullman as Avito and Richard Bonelli (né Richard Bunn) as Manfredo.
		Montemezzi's leadership, and the playing of the Met Orchestra, can't be faulted.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6165 (327 words)

	Amazon.ca: Montemezzi: L'amore dei tre re [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Italo Montemezzi (Composer), Nello Santi (Conductor), London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Performer), Alan Byers (Performer), Ryland Davies (Performer), Placido Domingo (Performer), Alison MacGregor (Performer), Anna Moffo (Performer), Cesare Siepi (Performer)
		Montemezzi's "L'amore dei tre re" was once considered one of the most important Italian operas of the twentieth century, and a listen through with the libretto will quickly tell you why.
		Montemezzi is a technical master, with an orchestral language, influenced by Wagner, that is charged with dynamism and electricity.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000009W7N (908 words)

	Review - GHCD 2234_35 L'Amore dei tre Re
		Montemezzi avoids the inflated time-scale of a Wagner or Berlioz, despatching the whole opera in a little over two hours.
		Februar 1941 wurde Italo Montemezzis Erfolgsoper "L'Amore Dei Tre Re“ gegeben.
		Montemezzi war ein Profi, nicht nur als Komponist sondern auch als Dirigent, wie die Aufnahme v 1941 schlagend belegt.
	www.guildmusic.com /histori/Reviews/rev2235z.htm (2234 words)

	Italo Montemezzi - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Italo Montemezzi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Italo Montemezzi is not available in the Hutchinson encyclopedia.
		Italo Calvino/The Path to the Nest of Spiders
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	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Italo+Montemezzi (94 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: What’s Old Is New... Again
		Zandonai and Montemezzi were highly sophisticated connoisseurs of what was going on in Germany and France.
		And Pizzetti was a scholar of Gregorian chant and Medieval music, as well as a thoughtful student of the new movements of his time.
		Montemezzi's L'Amore dei Tre Re (1913) enjoyed an international vogue for much of the first half of the 20th century.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/1884.html (1601 words)

	Discount Italo Montemezzi CDs on FindUsedCDs.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	www.findusedcds.com /Italo+Montemezzi/1/asearch.aspx (60 words)

	Artsandentertainment: A risk that works
		SARASOTA -- I didn't leave Sarasota Opera on Saturday wondering where Italo Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re (The Love of Three Kings) had been all my life, but I have spent many less entertaining nights in the company of more famous operas.
		Montemezzi (1875-1952) composed a half-dozen operas, but L'amore was the only one to gain a foothold in the repertory.
		Perhaps L'amore fell out of favor because it is a somewhat derivative work, influenced by Wagner, Debussy and the verismo tradition from which it came, but Montemezzi's score has some effective touches all its own, such as an orchestral interlude that mirrors Fiora's turbulent emotions in the second act.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/03/05/news_pf/Artsandentertainment/A_risk_that_works.shtml (727 words)

	MONTEMEZZI L'amore dei tre re [CF]: Classical Reviews- December 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sure enough the tenor does, but unfortunately so too does his son, now returned from another rape and pillage session, so by the end the stage is littered, Hamlet-style, with various corpses of all the principal singers, save old blind Baron Archibaldo.
		As far as Montemezzi’s style is concerned, there are plenty of signs of the influence of Wagner’s Tristan, which duly appear in the glorious second act lovers’ duet.
		Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is to be heard in much of the impressionism and symbolism which permeates the opera musically and dramatically.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Dec01/Montemezzi.htm (588 words)

	Italo Balbo -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Belatedly acknowledged during his lifetime, novelist and short-story writer Italo Svevo eventually won recognition as one of the most important figures in modern Italian literary history.
		He was a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy.
		Overview of the life and works of Italo Calvino, the 20th century Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9011917?tocId=9011917 (522 words)

	WINTER 2002 - Sarasota
		This year’s repertoire includes the balanced variety of major works by Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet, Johann Strauss and Italo Montemezzi.
		There are very few companies in this country where opera aficionados can indulge in the luxury of four different works of such high quality on four successive days.
		Finally, yet another new production will be devoted to a rarity of 20th century Italian verismo – Italo Montemezzi’s brooding melodrama The Love of Three Kings.
	www.greatperformancetours.com /winter/sarasota.html (372 words)

	Italo Montemezzi - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Find more recordings for Italo Montemezzi at Amazon.com
		Samuel Barber, Ludwig van Beethoven, Georges Bizet, Lee Hoiby, Italo Montemezzi, Richard Strauss, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=montemez (469 words)

	TEATRO GRATTACIELO VERISMO VOICE COMPETITION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		March 26, 1997 - Inaugural concert of Italo Montemezzi's L'Amore dei Tre Re November 23, 1998 - Mascagni's Iris on its 100th Anniversary
		Works to be performed will include Catalani's La Falce, Giordano's Mese Mariano, Leoni's L'Oracolo and Montemezzi’s l’Incantesimo.
		Future productions at Alice Tully Hall are planned for the U.S. Premiere of Respighi's Maria Vittoria in 2003, Giordano’s La Cena delle Beffe and Siberia, Mascagni's Guglielmo Ratcliff and Gnecchi's Cassandra.
	georgevoorhis.com /grattacielo/factsheet.html (603 words)

	PRESS TEATRO GRATTACIELO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"A new and important New York opera company made its debut in Alice Tully Hall the last week in March -- the Teatro Grattacielo, which gave us a rare hearing of the once-popular musical stage-work by Italo Montemezzi, L'Amore dei Tre Re.
		"Italo Montemezzi's opera L'Amore dei Tre Re...was performed in concert on March 26 and Tully Hall was quite full for the occasion, a welcome evening all around." "Teatro Grattacielo cast their L'Amore with love and care.
		"Teatro Grattacielo, New York City's newest opera-in-concert company, made an auspicious debut at Alice Tully Hall on March 26 with an impassioned performance of Italo Montemezzi's sadly neglected L'Amore dei Tre Re (1913)."
	www.grattacielo.org /press.html (1122 words)

	May 15 Deaths in History
		May 15, 1952 Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84
		May 15, 1952 Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at 76
		May 15, 1945 Major Courtney, U.S. medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
	www.brainyhistory.com /daysdeath/death_may_15.html (836 words)

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