Alfredo Catalani

✶June 19, 1854

†August 7, 1893

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About their life

Alfredo Catalani was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film Diva. Catalani's other operas were much less successful.

Italian operatic composer (1854–1893)

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Biography from the article Alfredo Catalani on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.