page_title: Ferdinando Fontana
section_title: Texts set to music
hierarchical_section_title: Ferdinando Fontana / Texts set to music
caption_attribution_description: Ferdinando Fontana, caricature by Antonio Cagnoni (1828-1896)
context_page_description: Ferdinando Fontana was an Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet. He is best known today for having written the libretti of the first two operas by Giacomo Puccini – Le Villi and Edgar.
context_section_description: Unless indicated otherwise, the texts were opera libretti.
  El marchionn di gamb avert, from the poem Lament del Marchionn di gamb avert by Carlo Porta, set to music by Enrico Bernardi (Milan, 14 July 1875)
  Il conte di Montecristo, completion of a libretto by Emilio Praga, music by Raffaele Dell'Aquila (Milan, 14 June 1876)
  Maria e Taide, music by Nicolò Massa (August 1876)
  Il violino del diavolo, music by Agostino Mercuri (Cagli, 12 September 1878)
  Aldo e Clarenza, music by Nicolò Massa (11 Aprile 1878)
  La Simona, music by Benedetto Junck (Milan, 1978)
  Odio, from Victorien Sardou's play La Haine (Hatred), for Amilcare Ponchielli but never composed (written between 1878 and 1879)
  Maria Tudor (attributed to Emilio Praga, completed after his death by Arrigo Boito, Angelo Zanardini, and Fontana) music by Antônio Carlos Gomes (Milan, 27 March 1879)
  Il bandito, music by Emilio Ferrari (Casale Monferrato, 5 December 1880)
  La leggenda d'un rosajo, cantata, music by Enrico Bertini (1883)
  Anna e Gualberto, music by Luigi Mapelli (Milan, May 1884)
  Le Villi, music by Giacomo Puccini (Milan, 31 May 1884)
  Il Natale, stories set to music by Giulio Ricordi under the pseudonym of Jules Burgmein (1884)
  Il Valdese, music by Giuseppe Ippolito Franchi-Verney (Turin, 3 December 1885)
  Flora mirabilis, music by Spiro Samara (Milan, 16 May 1886)
  Il bacio, music by Enrico Bertini, never performed (written 1886)
  Il profeta del Korasan (or Mocanna), music by Guglielmo Zuelli, never performed (written 1886)
  Notte d'aprile, music by Emilio Ferrari (Milan, 4 February 1887)
  Colomba, music by Vittorio Radeglia (Milan, 15 June 1887)
  Annibale, ballo, music by Romualdo Marenco (1888)
  Asrael, music by Alberto Franchetti (Reggio Emilia, 11 February 1888)
  Edgar, music by Giacomo Puccini (Milan, 21 April 1889)
  Zoroastro, music by Alberto Franchetti, never performed (written 1890)
  Il tempo, dance, music by Riccardo Bonicioli (3 January 1891)
  Lionella, music by Spiro Samara (Milan, 4 April 1891)
  Theora, music by Ettore Edoardo Trucco (14 February 1894)
  Duettin d'amore, written with Gaetano Sbodio, music by Emilio Ferrari, (1895)
  La forza d'amore, music by Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (Turin, 6 March 1897)
  Il signor di Pourceaugnac, based on Molière's play Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, music by Alberto Franchetti (Milan, 10 April 1897)
  Mal d'amore, based on Paolo Ferrari's La medicina d'una ragazza malata, music by Angelo Mascheroni (Milan, 30 April 1898)
  La lampada, music by Ubaldo Pacchierotti (16 December 1899)
  La notte di Natale, music by Alberto Gentile (29 December 1900)
  Il calvario, music by Edoardo Bellini (Milan, 25 June 1901)
  La nereide, music by Ulisse Trovati (14 November 1911)
  Sandha, music by Felice Lattuada (Genoa, 21 February 1924)
  Maria Petrovna, music by João Gomes de Araújo (composed in 1903 but not performed until January 1929)
  Elda (written in Switzerland) 
  La Simona, lyric poem based on the Seventh Tale of the Fourth Day in Boccaccio's Decameron, music by Benedetto Junck (date unknown)
  Inno del Canton Ticino (Anthem of Canton Ticino) as well as songs and romanzas set to music by various composers, including Nicolò Massa and Francesco Paolo Tosti. Fontana supplied the poems for three songs by Tosti – "Senza di te!",  "È morto Pulcinella!", and  "Nonna,... sorridi?...".
caption: Caricature of Fontana by the Italian composer, Antonio Cagnoni (1828-1896)
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