| Salvatore Allegra | |
| Birth Date: | 13 July 1898 |
| Birth Place: | Palermo, Italy |
| Death Place: | Florence, Italy |
| Occupation: | Composer |
Salvatore Allegra (13 July 1898, Palermo, Italy - 9 December 1993, Florence, Italy) was an Italian composer.
Allegra was born in Palermo. He composed a number of operettas in the 1920s, including Il gatto in cantina (1930), which is still performed sometimes, passing then to operas, such as the dark "verista" drama Ave Maria,[1] which was first staged at La Scala in 1934, which was followed by I Viandanti (1936), Il Medico suo malgrado (1938) and Romulus (1952).[2]
He completed and edited some last works of the late Ruggero Leoncavallo, including the one-act opera Edipo Re (1920) and the operetta Le maschere nude (1925).
After the war he composed a number of musical scores for films, among which Amori e veleni (1950) with Amedeo Nazzari and directed by Giorgio Simonelli. He died in Florence.