- Iris (opera)
"Iris" is an
opera in three acts byPietro Mascagni to an original Italianlibretto byLuigi Illica . Its first performance was at theTeatro Costanzi inRome on22 November 1898 .The opera is through-composed and set in
Japan during legendary times. (Mascagni's colleague and former roommate, Puccini, was present at the premiere; it is far from coincidental that his opera, "Madama Butterfly ", first presented in 1904 was also set in Japan.)In common with all of Mascagni's full-length operas "Iris" is now rarely performed, even in Italy. Two of the opera's most memorable numbers are the tenor's serenade ("Apri la tua finestra") and the Hymn to the Sun ("Inno al Sole").
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* [http://www.amadeusonline.net/almanacco.php?Start=0&Giorno=22&Mese=11&Anno=1898&Giornata=&Testo=&Parola=Stringa Amadeus Almanac, accessed 30 June 2008]
*Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), "The Oxford Dictionary of Opera", 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
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