Name Guido Menasci Role Librettist | Movies Cavalleria rusticana | |
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Books Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci: Opera Classics Library Series Similar People Pietro Mascagni, Giovanni Verga, Franco Zeffirelli | ||
Cavalleria Rusticana- Teatro Massimo di Palermo
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.
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