(RESPIGHI): Lucrezia*

(RESPIGHI): Lucrezia* 24 February. Milan, Sc. Text by C. Guastalla. One act (3 momenti). Respighi’s last opera, completed by his wife, Elsa Olivieri Respighi . In Italian also given at Buenos Aires 13 August 1937 and Rio de Janeiro Summer 1937. In Czech, Olomouc September 1937. In German (translated by G. C. Winkler ), Gera 4 May 1940. (The work forms a trilogy with Maria Egiziaca, see 1932, and the ballet Gli Uccelli; they are now usually given on the same bill.)