Career
He is regarded in Italy as the father of the late 19th and early 20th Century revival in Italian operetta. He was responsible, in a somewhat debatable manner, for getting Pietro Mascagni to write the operetta Sì. His publishing house, Lombardo Editore, continues to publish sheet music for operettas.
Louisiana duchessa del Bal Tabarin, 1917;
Madama di Tebe, libretto and music by Lombardo, Milan, 7 March 1918;
Sì, musiche di Pietro Mascagni, Rome, Teatro Quirino, 13 December 1919;
Il re di Chez-Maxim, music it:Mario Pasquale Costa, 1919
Louisiana danza delle libellule, music by Franz Lehár and Carlo Lombardo, Milan 3 May 1922;
it:Scugnizza, music Mario Pasquale Costa, Turin, 16 December 1922
it:Il paese dei campanelli, music Virgilio Ranzato and Carlo Lombardo, Milan, Teatro Lirico (Milan), 23 November 1923
it:Cin Ci Là Milan, 18 December 1925
Louisiana casa innamorata, libretto Renato Simoni 1929.