Emilio Usiglio (18 January 1841 in Parma – 7 July 1910 in Milan) was an Italian composer and conductor.
Life and career
Usiglio studied music in Parma, first with Giuseppe Barbacini and then with Giovanni Rossi, before continuing his education in Pisa with Carlo Romani and in Florence with Teodulo Mabellini. At the age of 20 he began his operatic career with some success with La locandiera. He wrote exclusively opere buffe, his most famous being 1879's Le donne curiose after the play byCarlo Goldoni.
Due primarily to his increasing alcoholism, Usiglio was forced to retire as a conductor in 1897.[1] He died in Milan in 1910. His wife was the soprano Clementina Brusa.
Works
Luigia, costume design for Le educande di Sorrento (1868).
Operas
La locandiera, libretto by Giuseppe Barilli (Torino, Teatro Vittorio Emanuele, 5 September 1861)
Un'eredità in Corsica, libretto by Raffaello Berninzone (Milan, Teatro di Santa Radegonda, 1 July 1864)
Le educande di Sorrento or La figlia del generale, libretto by Raffaello Berninzone (Florence, Teatro Alfieri, 1 May 1868)
La scommessa, libretto by Benedetto Rado (Florence, Teatro Principe Umberto, 6 July 1870)
La secchia rapita, libretto by Angelo Anelli, written in collaboration with five other composers (Florence, Teatro Goldoni, 6 April 1872)
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