Ubaldo Pacchierotti

Ubaldo Pacchierotti (1875/1876 – 21 April 1916) was an Italian composer who wrote several operas that were produced or published between 1899 and 1920. Pacchierotti’s second work, L’albatro: leggenda nordica, for at least one major reviewer established Pacchierotti as a young new composer of promise, although the work itself initially did not see many performances. L’albatro premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan in November 1905. In November 1907, extracts of the work were played as a prelude to a performance of Cavalleria Rusticana in Turin. The reviewer for La Stampa commented favorably on both the Milan premiere of the entire opera, and the extracts performed in Turin, stating that the pieces were: :“all notable for their elegance, beauty of form, and nobility of subject; we are reconfirmed in the hope of finding in Pacchierotti – who is young – the sort of refined, clever, and popular composer in the field of home-grown lyric opera of which young valiants we are in such need” (“tutte notevolie per eleganza, leggiadria di forme e nobilita’ de contenuto, ci siamo riconfermati nella speranza di ritrovare nel Pacchierotti – chi e’ giovane d’anni – il musicista colto e genial