Enrico Golisciani

Enrico Golisciani (25 December 1848 – 6 February 1919) was an Italian author, born in Naples. He is best known for his opera librettos, but also published a slim volume of verses for music, entitled Pagine d'Album (Milano, Ricordi, 1885); many more of his poems intended to be set to music were published in the Gazzetta Musicale di Milano.

Selected librettos

 * Carlo di Borgogna (Pietro Musone – Naples, Teatro Mercadante, 22 March 1876)
 * Lida Wilson (Ferdinando Bonamici – Pisa, Teatro Nuovo, 31 January 1878)
 * Il Conte di San Ronano (Nicola De Giosa – Naples, Teatro Bellini, 12 May 1878)
 * Griselda (Giulio Cottrau – Turin, Teatro Alfieri, 25 September 1878)
 * Il ritratto di Perla (Cesare Rossi – Naples, Circolo Unione, 7 January 1879)
 * Sogno d'amore (Cesare Bernardo Bellini – Naples, Casino dell'Unione, 12 January 1880)
 * I cavalieri di Malta (Antonio Nani) – Valletta, Royal Opera House 16 January 1880)
 * Nella (Francesco Paolo Frontini – Catania, Teatro Comunale, 31 March 1881)
 * Rabagas (Nicola De Giosa – Rome, Teatro Argentina, 23 March 1882)
 * Cordelia dei Neri (Ferdinando Aldieri – La Valletta, Teatro Reale, 9 May 1884)
 * Marion Delorme (Amilcare Ponchielli – Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 17 March 1885)
 * Cimbelino (Niccolò van Westerhout – Naples, private performance, December 1887)
 * Marina (Umberto Giordano – composed in 1888, but not performed)
 * Gina (Francesco Cilea – Naples, Collegio di musica, 9 February 1889)
 * Bianca di Nevers (Adolfo Baci – Rovigo, Teatro Sociale, 1 November 1889)
 * A Santa Lucia (Pierantonio Tasca – Berlin, Kroll Opera House 1892)
 * Max (Mary Rosselli Nissim and Giuseppe Menichetti - Florence, 1898)
 * Il segreto di Susanna (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – Munich, Hoftheater, 4 December 1909)
 * L'amore medico (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – Dresden, Hoftheater, 4 December 1913)

Translations into Italian

 * Il pipistrello (Nicola De Giosa – Italian premiere at Naples, Società Filarmonica, 28 January 1875)

Poems set to music
Romances:
 * Preso a morte, words by E. Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Maddaloni, 1878
 * Abbandonata, words by E. Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Ricordi, 1878
 * Biglietto amoroso, words by E. Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Benenati, 1878
 * Non sei più tu, words by E. Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Benenati, 1878
 *  Un fiore sul verone , words by Enrico Golisciani, music by Francesco Paolo Frontini, Ricordi, 1883