:Giuseppe Adami
{{Short description|Italian librettist, playwright and music critic (1878–1946)}}
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Giuseppe Adami (4 February 1878{{spaced ndash}}12 October 1946) was an Italian librettist, playwright and music critic who was best known for his collaboration with Giacomo Puccini on the operas {{Lang|it|La rondine}} (1917), Il tabarro (1918) and Turandot (1926).
Works of plays
Adami wrote several plays, such as I fioi di Goldoni, Una capanna e il tuo cuore (1913), Capelli bianchi (1915), Felicità Colombo (1935) and Nonna Felicità (1936). The latter was adapted into a film in 1938 by director Mario Mattoli.
Early life, training and biography
Adami was born in Verona. He graduated from the University of Padua in Law but dedicated his career as a writer, theatre playwright, and then music critic. After the death of Puccini, Adami published a collection of the composer's letters in Epistolario (1928). He also published his personal recollections; Giulio Ricordi e i suoi musicisti (1933); Giacomo Puccini (1935) (this was one of the earliest biographies of the composer); and a second biography of Puccini Il romanzo della vita di Giacomo Puccini (1942).{{Cite web |url=http://www.comitatopuccini.it/page.php?page=69&langId=1 |title=Comitato Nazionale Celebrazioni Pucciniane: Giuseppe Adami |access-date=2007-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722030518/http://www.comitatopuccini.it/page.php?page=69&langId=1 |archive-date=2011-07-22 |url-status=dead }}
Librettos
Adami also wrote librettos for other composers including Riccardo Zandonai's La via della finestra (1919); and Franco Vittadini's Anima allegra (1921) and Nazareth (1925). He was a music critic for La sera (Milan) and for the review La comedia from 1931 to 1934. Adami acted as publicist with the house of Ricordi to the end of his life. He died in Milan aged 67.
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071014103032/http://www.ontopia.net/operamap/librettist.jsp?id=adami Giuseppe Adami biography]
- {{IMDb name|0010638|Giuseppe Adami (I)}}
- [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/3348 La via della finestra] Vocal score from Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection
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Category:University of Padua alumni
Category:Italian music critics
Category:Italian opera librettists
Category:Italian male dramatists and playwrights
Category:Italian male non-fiction writers
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