Umberto Balsamo

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Rosario Umberto Balsamo (born 10 March 1942) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer, best known for the songs “L’angelo azzurro” and “Balla”. Background Born in Catania, Balsamo was the youngest of five brothers. Balsamo obtained his first success in 1972 with the song “Se fossi diversa”, which ranked nineteen in the Italian hit parade. The following year he entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song “Amore mio”. In 1977 he topped the hit parade with the song “L’angelo azzurro”, selling over a million of copies In 1979 he had one another major success with the song “Balla”, a mixture of tarantella and disco music. In the eighties Balsamo focused on composing, achieving a significant success with the song “Italia”, sung by Mino Reitano at the Sanremo Music Festival 1988. Discography Singles Studio albums *1974 Passato presente e futuro *1975 Natalì *1977 Malgrado tutto…l’angelo azzurro *1978 Crepuscolo d’amore *1979 Balla *1979 Auto Music *1980 Pianeti *1982 Mai più *1990 Respirando la notte luna *1992 Un pugno nella notte *2003 Vorrei aprire il cielo sabato sera a spina di rosa Compilation albums *1989 L’angelo azzurro e altri successi *1995 Umberto

Umberto Giordano

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Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 186712 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. His best-known work in that genre was Andrea Chenier (1896). He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera, Marina, was written for a competition promoted by the music publishers Casa Sonzogno for the best one-act opera, remembered today because it marked the beginning of Italian verismo. The winner was Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana. Giordano, the youngest contestant, was placed sixth among seventy-three entries with his Marina, a work which generated enough interest for Sonzogno to commission the staging of an opera based on it in the 1891–92 season. The result was Mala vita, a gritty verismo opera about a labourer who vows to reform a prostitute if he is cured of his tuberculosis. This work caused something of a scandal when performed at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, in February 1892. It played successfully in Vienna, Prague and Berlin and was re-written as Il Voto a few years later, in an attempt to raise interest in the work again. Giordano tried a more romantic topic with his next opera, Reg

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Umberto Balsamo

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