Wolf-Ferrari

American  

[vawlf-fer-rah-ree] / ˌvɔlf fɛrˈrɑ ri /

noun

1. Ermanno 1876–1948, Italian composer.

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Wolf-Ferrari British  

/ ˈvɔlfferˈraːri /

noun

1. Ermanno (erˈmanno). 1876–1948, Italian composer born of a German father, in Germany from 1909. His works, mainly in a lyrical style, include operas, such as The Jewels of the Madonna (1911) and Susanna's Secret (1909)

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Wolf-Ferrari

Included in this catalogue are the familiar intermezzos from that perennial double bill, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, and less well-known interludes by Cilea, Catalani and Wolf-Ferrari.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manno Wolf-Ferrari usually conducts at Venice's La Fernice opera house.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Lehar and Wolf-Ferrari in the early twentieth century, read II Divo and Andre Rieu in the twenty-first.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

It is Mozart's media and Mozart's style which Wolf-Ferrari adopts, but there are traces also of the idioms of others who have been universal musicians rather than specifically Italian.

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

Our repertoire was very large, including nearly all the Italian operas, from Verdi to Wolf-Ferrari, and the German operas from the time of Weber and Mozart up to Humperdinck.

From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen