L'Amico Fritz Pietro Mascagni / Arr. Marco Pontini

Titel / Title: L'Amico Fritz
Untertitel / Subtitle: Intermezzo from the 3rd Act
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: concert band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Baton Music orchestral series

[EN]
L'Amico Fritz is an opera in three acts by Italian composer Pietro Mascagni, premiered in 1891. While the opera enjoyed some success in its day and is probably Mascagni's most famous work after ‘Cavalleria rusticana’, today it is performed far more rarely than ‘Cavalleria’, which remains Mascagni's only enduringly popular work outside Italy, where ‘L'amico Fritz’ and ‘Iris’ are still in the active repertoire. Only the ‘Cherry Duet’ in Act 2 and the ‘Intermezzo from the 3rd Act’ are the best known pieces in the opera and often performed separately in concerts. Italian arranger Marco Pontini transcribed this intermezzo from L'Amico Fritz for Symphonic Band.