Giuseppe Adami

Giuseppe Adami (4 February 1878 – 12 October 1946) was an Italian librettist, playwright and music critic who was best known for his collaboration with Giacomo Puccini on the operas La rondine (1917), Il tabarro (1918) and Turandot (1926).

He graduated from the University of Padua in Law but dedicated his career as a writer, theatre playwright, and then music critic.

After the death of Puccini, Adami published a collection of the composer's letters in Epistolario (1928).

[1] Adami also wrote librettos for other composers including Riccardo Zandonai's La via della finestra (1919); and Franco Vittadini's Anima allegra (1921) and Nazareth (1925).

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Portrait of Giuseppe Adami
Giuseppe Adami autograph 1943