Talk:Riccardo Drigo

Work In Progress
I am working on this article whenever I can - I will finish as soon as possible.

Thanks Rjwilmsi for the spelling corrections - I am notorious for typos!!!

If anyone has images that they can contribute or any relevant information, please send me a message.

--Mrlopez2681 07:31, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Composer project review
I've reviewed this article as part of the Composers project review of its B-class articles. It merits the B rating, and with some work, could achieve GA or A rating. Read my full review on the comments page. (I've raised the Biography and Opera ratings to B as well; I doubt the standards are different enough for those projects.) Questions or comments can be left here or on my talk page.  Magic ♪piano 20:52, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Conducted premiere of Puccini's Le Villi?
I cannot find any independent verification of this claim, although it now appears in various mirror sites, all sourced from our article, usually taken word for word.

Our Le Villi article claims the conductor at the original version in May 1884 was an Arturo Panizza, although as you'll see from the talk page, there is some doubt as to whether the Panizza involved was Arturo, Achille, Alfredo or Giacomo - but the virtually universal consensus among external sources is that, whoever it was, his surname was Panizza and not Drigo.

The conductor of the revised version later that year was Giovanni Bolzoni, and I've seen no alternative suggestions that it was Drigo.

If Drigo was involved in either of the premieres, it could only have been the original premiere, because if Puccini had to revise and restructure the opera so drastically, who would he have telegraphed the conductor annually saying how happy he was with the way it came out? It just doesn't pass the logic test. For now, I've put fact tags on this claim, but I'm going to remove all reference to Drigo's claimed association with Le Villi unless some reliable source can be found - quickly. -- JackofOz (talk) 19:01, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


 * the reference comes from this article - Scherer, Barrymore Laurence. Riccardo Drigo: Toast of the Czars. Published in Ballet News - January, 1982, pp. 26-28. Tt says, quote - "Among his most memorable Italian seasons was the Carnival of 1886 at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice where he conducted both the world premiere of Ponchielli's Marion Delorme and the Venetian premiere of Puccini's Le Villi. Very young and very nervous, the future composer of Madame Butterfly sent his thanks to Drigo in an effusive telegram, and to the end of his days kept a warm place in his heart for him." This reference is taken from Drigo's Italian bio, (Travaglia, Silvio. Riccardo Drigo: l'uomo e l'artista) which also expands on this reference and mentions Puccini's yearly telegrams. Anyway the mistake is mine....I've fixed it!!--Mrlopez2681 (talk) 23:11, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Le Talisman
The revival premiered on December 12 [O.S. November 29] 1909 at the Mariinsky Theatre, with an audience consisting of the Dowager Empress Marie Fyodorovna.
 * Was she really the only person in the audience? --  JackofOz (talk) 08:04, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

More music
I suggest to include the file at right.Anythingyouwant (talk) 05:00, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 04:17, 30 April 2016 (UTC)