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Caruso, Enrico b. February 27, 1873 d. August 2, 1921
Opera Singer. Enrico Caruso was born in Naples, Italy. His singing was always in demand, either at the local church or some special festivities. At the age of fifteen his mother was seriously ill, she insisted he must sing, upon return after mass found her dead. His father remarried and the family ultimately reached 22 children. With very little formal or musical education he learned and refined his theatrical skills throughout his life on his own. Singing first in provincial theaters and...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield (inactive))
Cimitero Monumentale di Poggioreale, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Cecere, Carlo b. November 7, 1706 d. February 15, 1761
Composer, Instrumentalist. One of the last notable composers to work in the Baroque tradition. He was notorious in his day for his comic opera "La abentorosa tavernola" (1741), which satirized monastic life. The Catholic Church deemed it blasphemous, not least because it was commissioned by (and first performed in) a monastery. The author of the libretto was imprisoned and the composer prudently gave up writing for the stage. Cecere was born in Grottole, Italy, and probably spent his adult...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Chiesa di Santa Maria la Nuova, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Plot: Chapel of the Congregazione dei Musici
Curtis, Totò de (Antonio) b. February 15, 1898 d. April 15, 1967
Noted Italian-born Screen Actor. He created the role of Totò. He is remembered for films such as "L'Allegro Fantasma" (1941), "Il Ratto delle Sabine" (1945), "Totò le Mokò" (1946), "Dov`è la Libertá" (1952), "I Tre Ladri" (1954), "Totò, Peppino e le Fanatiche" (1958), "Le Belle Famiglie" (1964), and "Capriccio all'italiana" (1967). (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cimitero Monumentale di Poggioreale, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
De Lucia, Fernando b. October 11, 1860 d. February 21, 1925
Opera Singer. A tenor controversial in his own time and later, he is chiefly remembered for the vast recorded legacy which gives insight into a now-obsolete style of performance. Trained in his native city, he made his March 9, 1885, professional bow at Naples' Teatro San Carlo as the title character of Charles Gounod's "Faust"; originally a 'tenore di grazia' ("tenor of grace") typified by Count Almaviva in Rossini's "The Barber of Seville", he sang such fare as Nemorino in Donizetti's "L'...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Cimitero Monumentale di Poggioreale, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Plot: Chapel of San Filippo di Chaiaia.
Durante, Francesco b. March 31, 1684 d. September 30, 1755
Composer. Apart from a brief period in Rome, he lived his whole life in Naples. As director of several conservatories there, he taught Giovanni Pergolesi, Giovanni Paisiello, and Niccolo Piccini. Durante wrote primarily for the church; his catalog includes 24 Masses, five Requiems, 33 Psalm settings and scores of other vocal pieces. Although he expressed considerable dramatic flair in his music, religious inhibitions prevented him from tackling an opera, the only path to musical fame...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Church of San Lorenzo Maggiore, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Fields (Stansfield), Gracie (Grace) b. January 9, 1899 d. September 27, 1979
Actress, Singer. Born Grace Stansfield in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, she made her first stage appearance as a child in 1905, and started her adult career in traveling revue troupes while earning extra money with factory work. After teaming with Archie Pitt, a well known comedian, he gave her career a boost when he began to promote her. In 1923, the pair married. She made her film debut in 'Our Alley' in 1931; by 1936 she was the most popular British film star and earned a Twentieth Century...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Protestant Cemetery, Capri, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Gennaro
Roman Catholic Saint. Much revered patron saint of Naples. His feast days are May 19 and September 19.
Duomo San Gennaro, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Gesualdo, Carlo b. 1561 d. September 8, 1613
Composer. The Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, Naples, he was a musical prodigy, and became highly skilled at singing, lute, and harpsichord while still a child. In 1586 he married his cousin, the beautiful (and twice-widowed) Princess Donna Maria d'Avalos; but he preferred musicmaking to lovemaking, and after producing the required male heir lost all interest in her. Donna Maria then began a clandestine affair with Don Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria. The ellicit lovers bribed...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Giordano, Michele Cardinal b. September 26, 1930 d. December 2, 2010
Roman Catholic Cardinal. He was the longtime Archbishop of Naples, Italy. Born in the small town of Sant'Archangelo, he was ordained a Priest in 1953 and was first posted to Anglona-Tursi. Consecrated Bishop in 1972, he served as auxillary Bishop of Matera until assuming the position of Archbishop in 1974. Called to Naples as Archbishop in 1987, he was created Cardinal the next year and remained there until his 2006 age-mandated retirement. In 2000 he became the highest ranking Church offical...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Basilica dell'Incoronata Madre del Buon Consiglio, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Innocent IV, Pope d. 1254
Roman Catholic Pope. Served as Pope from 1243 to his death in 1254. (Bio by: K)
Duomo San Gennaro, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Joanna I b. 1326 d. May 22, 1382
Queen of Naples and titular Queen of Jerusalem. Daughter of Charles d'Anjou and Marie de Valois. She succeeded her grandfather Robert I. on the thrones of Naples and Jerusalem in 1343. She was crowned in October 1344 in Naples. She inherited the titles of Duchess of Calabria, Princess of Capua and Countess of Provence, Forcalquier and Piemont from her father. In 1345 her first husband Andrea of Hungary was killed and it was rumored that she had ordered the murder. In December 1345 she gave...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
Chiesa Santa Chiara, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Mercadante, Saverio b. September 17, 1795 d. December 17, 1870
Composer. An important developer of 19th Century Italian opera, he strongly influenced the early music of Giuseppe Verdi. Mercadante was born in Altamura, near Bari, Italy. He studied flute, violin and composition at the Naples Conservatory (1816 to 1820) and became the favorite student of that institution's director, Niccolo Zingarelli. Rossini was impressed enough with his talent to write Zingarelli, "My compliments...your pupil Mercadante begins where we leave off", and encouraged the young...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Cimitero Monumentale di Poggioreale, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Merola, Mario b. April 6, 1934 d. November 12, 2006
Singer, Actor. A Native of Naples, he promoted dramatic renditions of traditional Italian songs with mixed dialogue singing in his performances. Considered the king of the Scenario, his melodramatic, was verging on wailing, ripe with passion and reflected a vibrant emotional personality. His popularity spread with a solid following in Europe, the United States and Canada. He recorded over 40 albums of Sceneggiata music in his career and was received at the White House from President Gerald Ford...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Nuovo Cimitero de Poggioreale, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Plot: D'Alesio Family Chapel
Noschese, Alighiero b. November 25, 1932 d. December 3, 1979
Italian actor and TV impersonator. He was born in San Giorgio a Cremano, (near Naples), Campania, Italy. After an unsuccessful attempt to work as journalist, he debuted for Italian radio as a voice imitator, performing parodies of popular figures. After some theatre appearances under the stage act Garinei e Giovannini, he became popular with the Italian television show "Doppia Coppia" (1969). Noschese became popular for his outstanding capability to imitate not only the voice of characters...[Read More] (Bio by: Anonymous)
Cimitero di San Giorgio a Cremano, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Of Borbone, Ferdinand II b. January 12, 1810 d. May 22, 1859
Italian Monarch. The second last King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. During the revolutionary movements in 1848 he issued democratic laws which however did not obtain the expected results and between 1849 and 1851 ordered a ruthless repression that earned him the epithet of "King Bomb". (Bio by: Lucy Caldarelli)
Chiesa Santa Chiara, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista b. January 4, 1710 d. March 16, 1736
Composer. Most of his short life was spent in and around Naples. He began writing for the theatre while still a student and his comic intermezzo "La Serva Padrona" ("The Bossy Housemaid", 1733) is a delightful early example of opera buffa. Dissolute habits led to his contracting tuberculosis and in 1736 he retired to a Franciscan monastery in Pozzuoli. Here he wrote his masterpiece, the moving "Stabat Mater". Pergolesi died impoverished at 26 and was buried in an unmarked mass grave at...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
San Procolo Cathedral, Pozzuoli, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Plot: Unmarked, gravesite lost
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista [cenotaph] b. January 4, 1710 d. March 16, 1736
Composer. Most of his short life was spent in and around Naples. He began writing for the theatre while still a student and his comic intermezzo "La Serva Padrona" ("The Bossy Housemaid", 1733) is a delightful early example of opera buffa. Dissolute habits led to his contracting tuberculosis and in 1736 he retired to a Franciscan monastery in Pozzuoli. Here he wrote his masterpiece, the moving "Stabat Mater". Pergolesi died impoverished at 26 and was buried in an unmarked mass grave at...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Church of St. Anthony of Padua, Pozzuoli, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Restituta
Roman Catholic Saint. A Virgin Martyr, she was killed during the era of Diocletian around 304 AD in Carthage. Her Feast day is May 17th. (Bio by: girlofcelje (inactive))
Duomo San Gennaro, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Ribera, Josep de b. February, 1591 d. September 3, 1652
Artist. One of the most important peinters of the Baroque. He was born in Xàtiva (Valencia, Spain), but developed almost his career in Italy. Among his works are "El Martirio de San Felipe", "El Patizambo", "La Desollación de Marsias", "Arquímedes" and "El Sueño de Jacob". He died in Mergogliano, Naples, Italy. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Church of Santa Maria del Parto in Mergellina, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy
Scarlatti, Alessandro b. May 2, 1659 d. October 24, 1725
Composer. A native of Palermo, Sicily, his hectic professional life was divided mainly between Naples and Rome; he flitted between the two cities as political situations and musical tastes changed. The leading opera composer of his era, Scarlatti's 100 works in the genre influenced all his contemporaries, who imitated him. Among his innovations: the "bel canto" style of singing, which emphasized long, flowing melodic lines; the introduction of the "Italian" Overture, a medley of tunes...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Church of Montesanto, Naples, Provincia di Napoli, Campania, Italy

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