June 19 - Alfredo Catalani (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for June 19th are found here: Heinrich Schenker (2019) and Guy Lombardo (2020)

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Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian composer of operas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Q and A

Today we have a little quiz —

  Some trivia, a party fact:

What Catalani aria is

  His last surviving artifact?

An opera fan will know that it’s

  Belov’d by any prima donna,

One of opera’s choicest bits,

  It's his “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana.”

 

 

 

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