Giuseppe Pietri

Excerpts from one of his works, the opera Maristella, were widely recorded and continue to be so on CD.

The aria "Io conosco un giardino" from that work has been popular with tenors, and has been frequently recorded separately; among the singers to record it are Luciano Pavarotti, Beniamino Gigli, Joseph Calleja and more recently, Rolando Villazón.

He composed operas in versistical tradition, but it was his operettas that made him a popular success.

The text was from a 1908 Tuscan dialect piece by Augusto Novelli, a romantic comedy in the Florentine petty bourgeois style.

Rompicollo was premiered in 1928 in Milan, and was translated into German as Das große Rennen ("The Big Race").