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Wrong spelling! Italian or Neapolitan is GIOIELLI.
Regards
Isella F.O'Rourke
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><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
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