Giordani

(jér-da’-né), name of a family, father, 3 sisters and 2 brothers, all singers in comic opera at Naples, till 1762 when they came to London (except Giuseppe); one of the brothers wrote the still pop. song ‘‘Caro mio ben.” (1) Tommaso (rightly Carmine), Naples, ca. 1740—Dublin after 1816; dram. composer. (2) Giuseppe (called Giordanel’lo), Naples, 1744—Fermo, 1798; bro. of above; conductor; c. 30 operas. (jér-dai’-nd), Umber to, b. Foggia, Aug. 27, 1867; studied with Paolo Serrao at the Naples Cons.; c. operas; succ. “Andrea Chénier”. (La Scala, Milan, 1896; in Berlin, 1898, and U. S.); also “Miranda,” unsucc., “Regina Diaz” (Naples, 1894); and succ. 3-act melodrama ‘“‘Mala Vita” (Rome, 1892, prod. as ‘Ji Voto,” Milan, 1897); “Fédor a” (Milan, 1808), ‘‘Siberta,” (do, 1903, Leipzig, 1907), and “‘Marcella”? (Milan, 1907); ‘“‘Mme. Sans Gene” (Met. Op., 1915); mus. comedy, ‘‘Giove a Pompei” (Rome, 1921); “Ia Cena delle Beffe’ (La Scala, 1924, at Met. Op., 1926) and “JI Re” (1928). poe) Giorgetti (jér-jét-té), Ferdinando, Florence, 1796-1867; violinist, teacher and comp. Giorgi (jér’-jé). Vide BANTr.