# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/azio-corghi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:02:31.876Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/azio-corghi"
name: "Azio Corghi"
slug: "azio-corghi"
description: "Azio Corghi was an Italian composer, academic teacher and musicologist. He composed mostly operas and chamber music. His operas are often based on literature, especially in collaboration with José Saramago as librettist. His first opera, Gargantua, was premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin in 1984, his second opera, Blimunda, was first performed at La Scala in Milan in the 1989/90 season, and his third opera, Divara – aqua e sangue, was premiered in 1993 at the Theater Münster, Germany. He taught composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, among other academies. In 2005, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic."
tagline: "Italian composer (1937–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Emanuele_Luzzati_-_bozzetto_per_Gargantua_di_Azio_Corghi_%281984%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Teatro_Regio_Torino_WIKITRT0534.jpg/330px-Emanuele_Luzzati_-_bozzetto_per_Gargantua_di_Azio_Corghi_%281984%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Teatro_Regio_Torino_WIKITRT0534.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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birthDate: "1937-03-09"
deathDate: "2022-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump