Geni Sadero
Eugenia Scarpa (12 May 1886 - 7 August 1961) was a composer, singer, and teacher from an Italian family who is best known by her pseudonym, Geni Sadero. She composed her own songs and arranged many Italian folk songs for voice and piano. Her students included soprano Marian Anderson. Conflicting sources list Scarpa's birthplace as Constantinople (today Istanbul, Turkey) or Trieste, Italy. Her father was a military commander in Trieste. Scarpa studied piano with Oscar Taverna. She debuted as an opera singer at Teatro Lirico in Milan in 1914. Five years later, she moved to Paris, where she sang and lectured about Italian folk songs. During World War I, Scarpa sang to entertain soldiers and also collected folk songs from them, which she later arranged for voice and piano. In 1920, she gave at least one well-reviewed vocal recital in England, with a program of Italian folk songs. Scarpa visited the tenor Enrico Caruso shortly before his death in 1921. Composer Fernando Liuzzi dedicated a group of his folk song settings to her in the mid 1920s. In 1927 she returned to Trieste, and later taught at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Scarpa sang for at least one recording by RCA Victor. She appeared in the films Affairs of Maupassant and La Canzone dell’Amore (The Song of Love 1930). Her song “Fa la Nana Bambin” was used in the soundtrack of the film Två Människor. Scarpa's songs were performed and recorded by Marian Anderson, Victoria de Los Angeles, Erno Balogh, Dusolina Giannini, Tito Gobbi, Toti dal Monte, Gianna Pederzini, the Phillips Jenkins Singers, Rosa Ponselle, Mafalda Napolitana le Quaration, Tito Schipa, Ferruccio Tagliavini and Gil Valeriano. Scarpa's music was published by Allans Music, Carish e Janichen, Casa Musicale Francesco Bongiovanni, G. Schirmer Inc. and Società Anonima Notari. Her works include: |
Birth and Death Data: Born 1886, Died 1961
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1924 - 1939
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, vocalist
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BVE-29632 | 10-in. | 12/15/1925 | In mezo al mar | Dusolina Giannini | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-29632 | 10-in. | 3/6/1924 | In mezo al mar | Dusolina Giannini | Soprano vocal solo, with harp and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-29633 | 10-in. | 12/15/1925 | Fà la nana bambin | Dusolina Giannini | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-29633 | 10-in. | 3/6/1924 | Fà la nana bambin | Dusolina Giannini | Soprano vocal solo, with violin, flute, and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-38926 | 10-in. | 5/24/1927 | Rock-a-bye baby mine | Phillips Jenkins Singers | Female vocal quartet, with piano | composer | |
Victor | BS-99453 | 10-in. | 3/13/1936 | Fà la nana, bambin | Ernő Balogh ; Lotte Lehmann | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | B-[Unnumbered 1924-01-31-01] | 10-in. | 1/31/1924 | In mezzo al mar | Dusolina Giannini | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | B-[Unnumbered 1924-01-31-02] | 10-in. | 1/31/1924 | Fa la nana bambin | Dusolina Giannini | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | BAVE-012847 | 10-in. | between 6/14/1939 and 7/12/1939 | Ninna nanna istriana | Mafalda Napolitana de Quaratino ; Gianna Pederzini | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | BAVE-012848 | 10-in. | between 6/14/1939 and 7/12/1939 | L' amor xe una pietanza | Mafalda Napolitana de Quaratino ; Gianna Pederzini | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1925-04-07-03] | 10-in. | 4/7/1925 | Gondoliera | Geni Sadero | Female vocal solo, with piano | vocalist, composer | |
Gramophone | BM1346 | 10-in. | 12/18/1929 | Fa la nana, bambin | Carlo Sabajno ; Tito Schipa | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Sadero, Geni," accessed November 24, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/109460.
Sadero, Geni. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 24, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/109460.
"Sadero, Geni." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 24 November 2024.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Sadero, Geni, 1886-1961 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93005035
Wikidata: Geni Sadero - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4977224
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/63578082
MusicBrainz: Geni Sadero - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b13bc5cb-2b34-42dc-b069-69d2d5673709
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