- Born: 23 July 1866, Palmi, Italy
- Died: 20 November 1950, Varazze, Italy
Operas
- Gina (1889)
- La Tilda (1892)
- L’arlesiana (1897; revised 1898, 1910, 1937)
- Adriana Lecouvreur (1902) ***
- Gloria (1907; revised 1932)
Francesco Cilea
"The history of music is not simply the history of masterpieces… Posterity is not always fair and can be fickle, and our keenest hope is that the curiosity of the reader will be attracted to a number of works that merit more than a passing reference in music history." – Vincent Giroud
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