Quando l'amore bussa…operetta in tre atti [When Love Comes Knocking. . . operetta in three acts]. Napoli: Casa Ed. Gennarelli, 1921.

Quando l'amore bussa…operetta in tre atti [When Love Comes Knocking. . . operetta in three acts]. Napoli: Casa Ed. Gennarelli, 1921.

This import of an operetta (with a book by Alfredo Napolitano, music by Oscar Cattedra) is itself dated and copyrighted 1922, a year after the 1921 publication in Italy. However, note the lower part of the cover, where the 1922 U.S. copyright is imprecisely (in my opinion) listed as by "Italian Book-Store," which is almost surely the Italian Book Company. (There was no "Italian Book-Store" at that time in New York or elsewhere.) The imprecision is also suggestive of the possibility that the Italian Book Company did not actually acquire the U.S. copyright, and hid its tracks by this slight alteration of its name.

There is a 1986 recording of a song with this name on YouTube, but it is not obvious whether it is from this operetta.

Alfredo Napolitano

Casa Ed. Gennarelli

1921

21 x 12cm; [n.p.]

Italian