Maremma by Pasquale Di Cagno

[Alan Howe]

Has anyone ever come across this obscure late-verismo opera?>>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh_h0Kwqozs
Article here:
http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/May/DiCagno_forgotten.htm

[Mark Thomas]

I've never heard of composer or opera, but it's certainly an attractive piece, pretty well performed.

[alberto]

Di Cagno was an unknown entity for me up to today.
Searching in the web (on Italian sites) I have not found hint of a performance of Maremma after the posthumous staged perfomance in Bari in 1965.

[BerlinExpat]

I have a synopsis in German and can translate it if anyone is interested!

[Jor]

There are many italian composers, most of whom wrote operas, that were living in the twentieth century and are now forgotten.
Contrary to the common belief the production of new operas in Italy was still strong in the first half of the last century until around '60s - '70s.
It was especially notable the contribution of italian state radio broadcaster (first known as EIAR and later renamed RAI) which performed and requested many "contemporary" operas, in a way replacing the role that Ricordi and Sonzogno had in giving visibility to new operists in the 19th century and early 20th century.

This is a good, albeit incomplete, list of the breath of operatic works EIAR/RAI aired:

http://orfeovedovo.weebly.com/20th-century-italian-opera-catalogue.html