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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies It's what I knew, but, as you always realise, what you know can be overtaken by some peculiar linguistic derivation that you'd never thought of! In fact, I have had confirmation from someone who has the original LP issue in 1976 that there it is spelled correctly as "gioielli". I have contacted BellaVoce who deny any misspelling, though since they give the composer as "Wolf-Ferrar" we can take what they say with a pinch of salt. I'm working on stage representations of mafia/camorra, so it was important to check! Thank you very much for your contribution Gerry Slowey Date sent: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:32:36 -0400 Send reply to: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies <[log in to unmask]> From: zeni <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [I-S] Wolf-Ferrari To: [log in to unmask] italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Wrong spelling! Italian or Neapolitan is GIOIELLI. Regards Isella F.O'Rourke >===== Original Message From Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies <[log in to unmask]> ===== >italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies > ><color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>In 1911, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari had a certain amount of success >with his Neapolitan-based opera, <italic>I gioielli della >Madonna</italic>. Since >then it has largely languished for reasons which those who have >read the libretto and perhaps heard excerpts would not find too >difficult to understand (choruses of happy laughing camorristi) >and until very recently it has not been available in full recording. >However, Bella Voce in 2001 issued the London 1976 performance conducted >by Alberto Erede and the title used for this version is <italic>I >gioiella della Madonna</italic>. In all the time I have looked at Wolf- >Ferrrari's work I have never seen this spelling. It is of course >possible that the dialect form is being used, but I have to confess that >I have never come across it. Could the producers of this cd version have >simply got the spelling wrong? The brochure (no libretto, unfortunately) >which accompanies the recording uses both versions! > > >Any comments would be welcome. > > >Gerry Slowey > > ><nofill> > >********************************************************************** To >join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: >[log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: >[log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave >italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems >or to contact the list's owners, write to: >[log in to unmask] For further information, visit our >web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html