Novaro, Michele

Michele Novaro ( Italian: Michele Novaro ; December 23, 1818 ^[6] , Genoa - October 21, 1885 , Genoa ) - Italian opera singer (tenor) and composer, best known for writing the music of the National Anthem Italy .

Born into a family of opera theater workers, Carlo Felice , nephew of the main stage designer of the theater, Michele Canzio . He studied composition in Genoa. He made his debut as a singer in the late 1830s. On the stage of the Genoese Opera, then from 1847 he worked in Turin , including at the Reggio Theater , also performing the duties of a choirmaster. Especially often performed in operas by Gaetano Donizetti , several times traveled to Vienna with tour performances. In 1864 he returned to Genoa, where he opened a public choral school. During the 1870s. occasionally performed in Genoa as an opera conductor, in 1874 , he conducted his own opera-buff “Doctor Unwittingly” ( league O Mego pe forza , in the Genoese dialect , the text by Nikololo Bachigalupo based on the eponymous Moliere's comedy ).

The most important part of the heritage of Novaro is the patriotic songs created by him in 1847 - 1848 , during the period of the revolutionary upsurge in the Sardinian kingdom , and animated by the ideas of Giuseppe Garibaldi . One of these songs, “The Song of the Italians” ( Italian. Il Canto degli Italiani ) for the words Goffredo Mameli , written in 1847, later gained considerable popularity and since 1946 has been used as the unofficial anthem of Italy, and in 2006 was approved in this quality officially.