Umberto Giordano

Fedora (1898) based on Victorien Sardou's play featured a rising young tenor named Enrico Caruso; it was also a success and is still performed today. He died in Milan at the age of 81. The most important theater in Foggia has been dedicated to Umberto Giordano.

Giordano then moved to Milan and returned to verismo with his best-known work Andrea Chénier (1896) based on the life of the French poet André Chénier. Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 1867 – 12 November 1948) was an Italian composer mainly of operas. It played successfully at Vienna Prague and Berlin and was re-written as Il Voto a few years later in an attempt to raise interest in the work again.