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Antonio Somma (born Udine, 28 August 1809 - died Venice, 8 August 1864) was an Italian playwright who is most well known for writing the libretto of an opera which ultimately became Giuseppe Verdi's ''Un ballo in maschera'' in 1859. While a student, his tragedy, ''Parisina'', gave him quite a success. Initially, his contact with Verdi came about when the composer was seeking to continue work on his proposed ''Re Lear'', an adaptation of the Shakespeare play, ''King Lear'', for the opera stage which had begun under his long-time collaborator Salvadore Cammarano who had died. Under Verdi's supervision, Somma wrote the libretto for ''Re Lear'', a project that Verdi never realised musically although extensive work was done and a full libretto completed to the point where Verdi was considering this to be the opera he wrote for Naples for the 1858 season.〔Budden 1984, pp. 362-363〕 However, ''Ballo'' had a troubled history and, originally, Somma wrote the libretto under the title of ''Gustavo III''.〔Gossett 2006, p. 497〕 As a result of required changes by, firstly, the Naples censors and then the Rome censors, it became transformed into ''Un vendetta in domino'' (with a different setting and characters' names).〔Letter to Somma, 7 February 1828 in Werfel and Stefan, p.207〕 Finally, for its Rome premiere, the opera became ''Un ballo in maschera'', but with another location change (this time to Boston in colonial times) and further title and name changes. Overall, Somma then specialized in stage plays and wrote no further libretti. ==References== Notes Sources *(Antonio Somma ) Bio at (OperaGlass ). *Budden, Julian (1984), "''Un ballo in maschera''", ''The Operas of Verdi'', Volume 2. London: Cassell, Ltd., pp. 360–423. ISBN 0-304-31059-X *Gossett, Philip (2006), ''Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera'' Chicago: University of Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-30482-3 ISBN 0-226-30482-5 *Schmidgall, Gary (1985), ("Verdi's ''King Lear'' Project" ), ''19th-Century Music'', Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 83–101 *Werfel, Franz and Paul Stefan (ed. & selected; trans. Edward Downes) (1973), ''Verdi: The Man and His Letters'', New York: Vienna House. ISBN 0-8443-0088-8 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antonio Somma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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