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Mese mariano
''Mese mariano'' (''Mary's Month'') is an opera in one act by Umberto Giordano. Its Italian libretto by Salvatore Di Giacomo was adapted from his play O Mese Mariano'', which was in turn adapted from his novella, ''Senza vederlo'' (''Without Seeing Him''). It premiered at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo on 17 March 1910. The opera is described as a ''bozzetto lirico'' (lyric sketch) and has a running time of only 35 minutes. It tells the story of a woman who visits an orphanage to see her child. Wracked with guilt at having abandoned him, she is unaware that he had died the night before.
==Composition history==
The play which forms the basis for the libretto was immensely popular in its day. Written in Neapolitan dialect, it was first performed at the Teatro San Fernando in Naples on 20 January 1900.〔Borelli (2007) p. 71. The play was also made into a 1929 silent film directed by Ubaldo Pittei (see British Film Institute Database)〕 Giordano, who had seen the play in Milan, was deeply touched by it and asked Di Giacomo to adapt it for an opera. Di Giacomo accepted and agreed to make some changes from the original drama. The setting of the opening scene which allowed Giordano to include a children's chorus was changed to the sunny courtyard in the orphanage with views of the Neapolitan landscape in the distance.〔Article in ''Corriere della Sera'', 15 May 1909, summarized in Archivi Teatro Napoli〕 The roles of the nuns also became more prominent, making the opera largely one of female voices. In this respect and in terms of its plot, Giordano's work pre-figures Puccini's ''Suor Angelica'' which was composed some seven years later.
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