Giuseppe Apolloni (1822-1889) He was born in Vicenza. Apolloni studied the piano (with F. Cannetti) and composition in Vicenza, where he lived until 1848, when his political involvement forced him to leave the city for Florence. He also lived for a time in Turin. Upon his return to Vicenza in 1852 his first opera,
Adelchi, was staged there. His most widely produced work was
L’ebreo (after Bulwer-Lytton’s Leila), first performed at Venice in 1855, and then in Barcelona and Malta; it was given a different title in Rome and Bologna,
Lida [Leila] di Granata, at the insistence of the censors. On the strength of its very successful production at La Fenice, the management there invited Apolloni to revise
Adelchi for a revival. His other operas include
Pietro d’Abano (1856, Venice),
Il conte di Königsmark (1866, Florence) and
Gustavo Wasa (1872, Trieste). Besides his operas, which follow Verdi’s middle-period style at a distance, he composed an orchestral rhapsody,
I canti dell’Appennino, using folk melodies, and a number of religious works.
GroveL'ebreo, ópera en un prólogo y tres actos (1855).
Romito fior nel tramite.