Guido Menasci
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{{Infobox musical artist
| background = person
| name = Guido Menasci
| image = Guido Menasci.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1867|03|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Livorno
| origin = Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|12|27|1867|03|24|df=y}}
| death_place = Livorno
| genre = Opera
| occupation = Librettist
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Guido Menasci (24 March 1867 – 27 December 1925) was an Italian opera librettist.
His best-known work is Cavalleria rusticana written with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti. He also provided the libretti for Mascagni's I Rantzau, Zanetto, for Umberto Giordano's Regina Diaz and Viktor Parma's Stara pesem (Old Song).
Menasci was born and died in Livorno.
External links
- {{Gutenberg author |id=5492| name=Guido Menasci}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Guido Menasci}}
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Category:Italian opera librettists
Category:Italian male dramatists and playwrights
Category:19th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
Category:19th-century Italian male writers
Category:20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Italian male writers
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