Guido Menasci

Guido Menasci
Background information
Born	(1867-03-24)24 March 1867 Livorno
Origin	Italy
Died	27 December 1925(1925-12-27) (aged 58) Livorno
Genres	Opera
Occupation(s)	Librettist

Guido Menasci (24 March 1867 – 27 December 1925) was an Italian opera librettist.

His best-known work is Cavalleria rusticana written with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti. He also provided the libretti for Mascagni's I Rantzau, Zanetto, for Umberto Giordano's Regina Diaz and Viktor Parma's Stara pesem (Old Song).

Menasci was born and died in Livorno.

External links

• Works by Guido Menasci at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Guido Menasci at Internet Archive