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Оглавление(1866–1950)
Adriana Lecouvreur (1897)
L’Arlesiana (1902)
Cilea began writing operas when he was still a student at the Naples Conservatory but had lasting success with only one, Adriana Lecouvreur, and with the tenor aria known as Federico’s Lament from another, L’Arlesiana. The championship of the famous Enrico Caruso was instrumental in both cases. Much of Cilea’s life was devoted to teaching, and he ultimately became director of the conservatory where he studied. A member of the verismo school of composition, his musical language was more refined than most but tended to be limited in the development of ideas.
