Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (left) with Pietro Mascagni and Guido Menasci
Born	Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (1863-03-17)17 March 1863
Died	30 May 1934(1934-05-30) (aged 71)

Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (17 March 1863 – 30 May 1934) was an Italian librettist.

Biography

He was best known for his friendship and collaboration with the composer Pietro Mascagni. Most of his libretti were written in collaboration with Guido Menasci.

Targioni-Tozzetti was born and died in Livorno.

Operas

• Cavalleria rusticana (1890)
• I Rantzau (1892)
• Regina Diaz (1894)
• Silvano (1895)
• Zanetto (1896)
• Amica (1905)
• La sposa di Nino (1913)
• Pinotta (1932)
• Nerone (1935)

External links

• Works by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti at Internet Archive