Ferdinando Fontana was an Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet. He is best known today for having written the libretti of the first two operas by Giacomo Puccini - Le Villi and Edgar.
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Portrait of Ferdinando Fontana by Vespasiano Bignami
Notice in Gazzetta Musicale di Milano (1884) announcing Ricordi's publication of Le Villi and their contract with Puccini to write a second opera with Fontana.
Ferdinando Fontana (left) with Giacomo Puccini.
Caricature of Fontana by the Italian composer, Antonio Cagnoni (1828-1896)Writers born in the 1850s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1850 to 1919 · aged 69
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9 languages
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