Azio Corghi

Azio Corghi (born 9 March 1937 in Cirié, Piedmont) is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. He was born at Cirié, in the Province of Turin, studied at the Turin and Milan conservatories and was a pupil of Bruno Bettinelli. In 2005 he was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.[1]

Selected Operas

  • Blimunda (Teatro Lirico, Milan, May 1990)
  • Divara (Münster, October 1993)
  • Isabella (Pesaro, August 1996)
  • Rinaldo & C. (Catania, October 1997)
  • Tat'jana (Teatro alla Scala Milan, October 2000)
  • Sen'ja (Münster, March 2003)
  • Il dissoluto assolto (Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 2005)
  • Giocasta (Vicenza, August 2008)

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana

Sources

  • Azio Corghi page at Ricordi
  • Corghi, Azio and Bramani, Lidia, Composizione musicale: colloquio con Azio Corghi, Volume 88 of Enciclopedia d'orientamento, Editoriale Jaca Book, 1995. ISBN 88-16-43088-5
  • Fearn, Raymond, Italian Opera Since 1945, Routledge, 1998, p. 42 and passim. ISBN 90-5755-002-4
  • Naxos Records, Biography: Corghi, Azio
  • Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana, Corghi Maestro Azio, Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
  • Paolo Tortiglione - Azio Corghi: La musica su tre dimensioni(con note sull’Opera e l’Elettronica in Blimunda)in Rivista Musicale Auditorium Anno II, N°5, II trim 1990 (pagg.25-28)


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