Ugo Falena wrote the libretto for the opera "L'ultimo Lord which is by an Italian composer and pianist who is known for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in what year?
Ugo Falena Ugo Falena (April 25, 1875 in Rome – September 20, 1931 in Rome), was an Italian silent film director and occasional opera librettist. His films include "Otello" (1909), "Beatrice Cenci" (1911), "William Tell" (1911), "Romeo and Juliet" (1912), and a notable adaptation of Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" (1916) featuring the soprano who sang at the premiere of the opera, itself, Gemma Bellincioni. He also wrote the libretto for Alfano's opera, "L’ultimo Lord".
Aida Aida (] ) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on 24 December 1871; Giovanni Bottesini conducted after Verdi himself withdrew. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world; at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, "Aida" has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. Ghislanzoni's scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz argues that the source is actually Temistocle Solera.