| 单词 | Donizetti |
| 例句 | Athena olive oil tins lined the front window next to a bust of Donizetti. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ms. Radvanovsky’s technical command in this daunting Donizetti role was flawless. Review: ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Anna Bolena’ Showcase Courage and Command at the Met 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z How familiar those occasions, whether in Rossini, Donizetti or Léhar, when the slapstick grows slappier and stickier and our expressions freeze to a scowl. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z Members of Lyric Opera's Ryan Opera Center will present Mozart's comic opera "The Impresario" along with Donizetti and Rossini excerpts. Summertime, and there's music for everyone in Grant Park 2011-03-02T22:26:00Z Molly Smith, who directs this one-act, 100-minute show with a welcome briskness, seasons the proceedings with selections from Mozart, Donizetti and Verdi works, a nod to the justice’s well-known love of opera. Review: ‘The Originalist,’ About Scalia, Opens in Washington 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Donizetti demands three strong soloists, and three strong soloists are here, with a real sense of what ought to be at stake. Review: ‘Poliuto,’ a Rare Donizetti Bel Canto Thriller 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z It was opposite Sutherland that his career ignited, at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972, with a ringing series of nine high C’s in the big tenor aria of Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment.” Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z That is partly because of its troubled performance history: Donizetti wrote several versions of it for different voices after it was banned on the eve of its planned premiere in Naples, Italy, in 1834. Sondra Radvanovsky, Opera Royalty, Takes On Donizetti’s Triple Crown 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The “Donizetti” revival likewise highlights many of the steps and constructions that are most peculiar to this ballet; and Kendra Mitchell’s sparkle in the ballerina role revealed its gleeful wit. Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z A 19th-century Italian audience of Donizetti’s day would have rooted for her as a Roman Catholic who stands up to a Protestant queen and becomes a martyr for her religion. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z But since Mr. Taylor is famous for wicked remarks, it’s also reasonable to assume he meant a dig at Balanchine, whose ballet “Donizetti Variations” treats the same music as if it were mint-fresh. Dance: How Shall We Know the Choreographer? By His Dances and More 2010-03-12T00:29:00Z The music is certainly alluring: Donizetti wrote lovely choruses for the Christian worshipers; memorable arias, like Severo’s ode to Paolina; and passionate duets, like the one in the second act. Review: ‘Poliuto’ Exposes a Love Triangle Most Tragic 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z In offering alternate endings of the Donizetti, he draws attention to the dramatic gravity of a composer often dismissed as a showman. The 1833 ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ Version Is Sung at Caramoor 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z And Ms. Radvanovsky is already preparing for her next crown: This spring she will sing the role of Elizabeth when the Met stages Donizetti’s “Roberto Devereux” for the first time in its history. Sondra Radvanovsky, Opera Royalty, Takes On Donizetti’s Triple Crown 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Another reason for the opera’s obscurity is that Gemma is “perhaps vocally the most daunting role Donizetti ever composed for a soprano,” says the New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z During the 1948-49 seasons, she began to sing the Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti roles in which she became a specialist as the bel canto revival got under way. Giulietta Simionato obituary 2010-05-07T15:19:00Z At the time, it offered only one opera by Mozart, one by Wagner and none by Bellini or Donizetti. Elena Obraztsova, Jewel of the Bolshoi Opera, Is Dead at 75 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z On the international circuit composers like Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini and Strauss have been and will continue to be Ms. DiDonato’s bread and butter, with Donizetti, Berlioz and Massenet increasingly part of the mix. Joyce DiDonato, Standing on Her Own Just Fine 2010-03-20T04:45:00Z No. 16 plays like a scene from a Donizetti opera, its sweeping lyricism punctuated by dramatic asides, while No. 12 lopes along with a jaunty tune. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z New ground will be made in the increasingly competitive field of opera and cinema when the English National Opera's new production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia is beamed out live in 3D, it was announced yesterday. English National Opera and Sky to produce first live 3D opera 2011-01-08T00:06:42Z The Borgias have inspired, among other works, a Donizetti opera, a novella by Alexandre Dumas and Mario Puzo’s last book, a history of the Borgias as the “first” crime family. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z Ms. Netrebko, who opened the Met’s season starring in a new production of Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena,” may not have the light lyric coloratura voice of some classic Manons, and her singing was not flawless. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z At the same time he, was also seeking to balance the orchestra’s sound to resemble the historically informed approach he takes at the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, Italy, where he is the music director. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Donizetti, thoroughly uninterested in the details of history, and his librettist, Salvadore Cammarano, made the novel’s political and religious conflicts almost entirely personal. Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z This is just one of the many delights of “Donizetti.” Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z This year his first offering is one of Donizetti’s grand operas for the Paris Opera, heard in its original French rather than the more popular Italian version. Classical & Opera Listings for July 10-16 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Further competition for the arthouse audience arrived on Saturday, with Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, the latest production beamed live from the New York Met Opera. Bad weather makes life Misérables for UK box office 2013-01-22T12:33:26Z In addition to “Norma,” she had performed, to wide acclaim, Donizetti’s Tudor operas at the Met in 2016, a bravura feat that Beverly Sills made famous in the 1970s at New York City Opera. How to Be Medea? Summon Your Anger and Despair, and Hit the Gym. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z It was not until the 1950s that many once-hailed works by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini were heard again, thanks to powerful champions like Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z As the lovesick small-town bumpkin Nemorino in Donizetti’s classic, deliriously entertaining comedy “The Elixir of Love,” this 29-year-old tenor sang with sincerity and style and acted with energy in his New York stage debut. Music Review: Two Debuts at a Diner That Specializes in Donizetti?s Secret Sauce 2011-03-23T21:29:23Z It’s like an amalgam of Donizetti and New Orleans music hall. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z It’s also an aria that Donizetti cut when he revised the opera in 1840, seven years after its Milan premiere, in an attempt to focus the drama more sharply. The 1833 ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ Version Is Sung at Caramoor 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z As a maker of dark, erotic and experimental films, Mr. Figgis was an intriguing choice to stage this gripping Donizetti work. Music Review: O, Unsmiling Villainess! 2011-02-20T22:50:12Z Donizetti’s “La favorite,” as the original French version of the opera is known, takes a while to warm up. The lighter side of ‘La favorite’ 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Simon Stone’s technically savvy staging of Donizetti’s “Lucia,” set amid the malaise of a contemporary postindustrial American town, didn’t translate its bold concept into a convincing portrayal of its pathetically suffering title character. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Radvanovsky will perform the bravura feat of singing Donizetti’s three Tudor queens in one season, mirroring Beverly Sills’s achievement at New York City Opera in the 1970s. Review: In ‘Maria Stuarda,’ Sondra Radvanovsky Makes a Vivid Impact 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z In 1950, he worked in lyric theater as a director, set designer and costumist, bringing new life to works by his favorites: Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi. “Romeo and Juliet” director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Lucrezia Borgia's story appealed to Figgis both because of the drama of Donizetti's version, and the facts of the historical Lucrezia. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z Prudently trimmed, the work emerges as a Rossinian lark with a handful of limpid arias that aspire to Donizetti. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z For starters, the company has given Ms. Netrebko not only a new production and an opening-night showcase but a Donizetti work never presented in the house. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z But Donizetti knew what he was doing, and his inspired score carries every shift of emotion and drama. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z As Marie, Donizetti’s daughter of the regiment, she was a winning, earthy presence, throwing herself gamely into the dauntingly physical production. Music Review: Donizetti?s ?Fille du R?giment? at the Met - Review 2011-12-13T23:22:49Z His first pick this summer, Donizetti’s “La Favorite” on Saturday, is no exception. Classical Music This Week: Bagatelles, ‘La Favorite’ and Kirsten Flagstad 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Donizetti’s operas are indeed formulaic, yet, time and again, formulas are transcended in the theater as works of genuine dramatic power exert their grip. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z His second-act duet with Mr. Lomelí — one of Donizetti’s most irresistibly lyrical creations — was a highlight, a testament to City Opera’s storied and continuing success introducing the city to young, promising singers. Music Review: Two Debuts at a Diner That Specializes in Donizetti?s Secret Sauce 2011-03-23T21:29:23Z Donizetti remarked that Acts 1, 3 and 4 of “Tell” were composed by Rossini, but Act 2 was written by God. Opera Review: Zurich Opera's 'Guillaume Tell' Is Tripped Up by Gimmickry 2010-11-23T12:40:00Z This year, a fifth of the Met’s productions are by Mr. McVicar, a tally swelled by the fact that the company is doing his three installments of the Donizetti so-called “Tudor Trilogy.” Hollywood? Nope. The Met Will Do for David McVicar. 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Program A began with a rarity, Balanchine’s “Haieff Divertimento,” Program B with his well-known “Donizetti Variations.” Dance Review | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Celebrating the Genius of Balanchine by Viewing It With Fresh Eyes 2010-03-08T06:32:00Z Though history tells us that Mary and Elizabeth never met, Donizetti, following Schiller, gives them an intense scene of confrontation. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z An hour later, after stirring renditions of Verdi and Donizetti classics, Giordani announced that the audience was in for a special treat. Portrait of a young singer on the cusp of stardom 2011-05-28T22:31:06Z A Donizetti aria is paired with Queen’s “Somebody to Love.” Music Review: Jarrod Spector in ‘A Little Help From My Friends,’ at 54 Below 2014-03-12T20:29:45Z But whatever the flaws of the production, it proves a welcome chance to enjoy an obscure Donizetti gem. Review: ‘Poliuto’ Exposes a Love Triangle Most Tragic 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Greenhorn has been tailored to the young tenor Stephen Costello, winner of the 2009 Richard Tucker Award, who has shot to international recognition in bel canto and lyric parts by Donizetti and Gounod. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z And, reprising a feat that Beverly Sills was famous for, Sondra Radvanovsky will sing all three queens in Donizetti’s so-called Tudor trilogy next season. Metropolitan Opera Unveils a Season of Big Stars and 6 New Productions 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Sometimes it means the generation of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, and sometimes it means the whole tradition of Italian singing.” Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z Here, at the Vienna Staatsoper, Ms. Netrebko, now the mother of a 2-year-old and with her 40th birthday beckoning in September, has boldly laid claim to another and very different Donizetti heroine. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko?s Bel Canto Moment 2011-04-12T11:05:35Z A Love Potion Opens the Met Season Another Metropolitan Opera opening night, another new production of a Donizetti starring the charismatic soprano Anna Netrebko. Review of Metropolitan Opera’s ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ 2012-09-25T12:41:03Z “I’m not a Donizetti expert, and some people say that I’m not the right voice for this, that it should be a lighter voice,” she said frankly. Sondra Radvanovsky, Opera Royalty, Takes On Donizetti’s Triple Crown 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In his next opera, “The Prince of Homburg,” first produced in Hamburg in 1960, he caricatured German militarism within a style fashioned after the bel canto operas of Bellini and Donizetti. Hans Werner Henze, Romantic Composer, Dies at 86 2012-10-29T02:30:06Z He had last performed at the house nearly two months before, conducting Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale,” and it was a relief to all, it seemed, to have him back in action. Music Review: In ?Wozzeck? at the Met, the Night Belonged to Levine 2011-04-07T12:58:54Z “Donizetti” is anyway among the wittiest of ballets. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Your first instinct would be to cut those places where Donizetti gives the melody before the singer actually sings, all that boom-cha-cha major-key stuff. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z On Monday night she brought a gala audience to its feet with a luminous performance in the title role of Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda." DiDonato a luminous Mary Stuart at Met 2013-01-01T09:46:04Z Like Bellini and Donizetti, Nicolai thoroughly assimilated the musical structures inherited from Rossini and brought to them a compelling melodic gift, but he also reveled in the kind of raw confrontations associated with early Verdi. Opera Review: Caught Between Two Men 2011-02-15T12:00:07Z No, not another Donizetti, but a new production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” Review of Metropolitan Opera’s ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ 2012-09-25T12:41:03Z In “Also Playing” Mr. Taylor takes the music that Donizetti intended for dancing and laughs at it. Dance Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company: A Choreographer Recycling and Reusing, but Always Reinventing 2010-03-03T23:18:00Z Seattle Opera presents its new production of Donizetti’s opera, recorded on the McCaw Hall stage, as an online stream Nov. 13-Dec. Seattle Opera experiments with a socially distanced stage production, filmed movie-style 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The 19th-century bel canto repertory remained closest to his heart, with its romantic vision of lost time: Donizetti and Bellini playing with Tudors and Stuarts, Rossini and Verdi's torrid exoticism. Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z Donizetti said, “But I’ve never heard that opera of yours,” whereupon Rossini said calmly, “In that case we both lifted it from the same source.” 2010-01-21T06:42:00Z These dances show him to be the choreographic equivalent of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, whose era he shared. Review: New York City Ballet Performs Bournonville Classics at Spring Gala 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z A tempting idea, but it does not always work out, as a performance of Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia” on Friday night here at the English National Opera demonstrated. Music Review: O, Unsmiling Villainess! 2011-02-20T22:50:12Z But her voice was changing, especially after vocal surgery in 2002 that she said added flexibility to it, and she had just dipped her toe into bel canto by singing Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia.” Sondra Radvanovsky, Opera Royalty, Takes On Donizetti’s Triple Crown 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Donizetti, viewing Mary as a repentant sinner heading for martyrdom, also allocates her the responsibility for the murder of Henry Darnley, about which history remains unclear. Mary Stuart 2010-06-06T20:30:00Z Donizetti actually wrote only eight, but it's now standard practice for tenors to add a final, ringing ninth one. American scores in role that made Pavarotti famous 2011-12-13T07:25:09Z But in the late 1840s, when he was nearing 30, Whitman found himself suddenly under the spell of bel canto masterpieces by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z And some audience members say that the one work I didn’t get to see, Donizetti’s “Elixir of Love” set in early 20th-century America, was the hit of the summer. In 39th season, Opera Theater of St. Louis shows good health, new work In the final years of his career, Donizetti held the prestigious post of court Kapellmeister there, dividing his time largely between Vienna and Paris. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko?s Bel Canto Moment 2011-04-12T11:05:35Z She has since returned to the Met in Meyerbeer’s “Juive” and Donizetti’s “Puritani,” and in the premiere of Tan Dun’s “First Emperor,” opposite Mr. Domingo. Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z Donizetti, however, gives us too few clues as to the motives for her behaviour. Maria di Rohan ? review 2011-07-10T16:46:00Z It is the first installment in Ms. Radvanovsky’s ambitious project to sing all three of Donizetti’s Tudor Queens this season as the Met. Classical Music & Opera Listings for Jan. 8-14 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “It can feel relaxing to escape and go to a Donizetti opera that’s set in a previous era,” Stone said in a panel discussion at the opera house during rehearsal. Met moves Donizetti opera to decaying American town 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z In the second, Anna nominally pardons Henry and his bride, but Donizetti’s music charges the moment with irony. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko?s Bel Canto Moment 2011-04-12T11:05:35Z Although “Donizetti” has no scenery and no narrative, it looks at first like an outtake from the older ballet’s celebration of the festival of the vine, with the jollification of decorous peasants. Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z Adina, the heroine, was reading aloud from the story of Tristan when the orchestra abruptly abandoned Donizetti's delicate oom-pah-pah and lobbed in 19th-century music's most notorious hand grenade: Wagner's Tristan chord. In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett – review 2012-12-12T08:00:01Z Anderson followed “My Country ’Tis of Thee” with an aria from Donizetti’s opera “La favorite,” which almost certainly wouldn’t happen today. Perspective | Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The lineup this week features this Donizetti work. Opera & Classical Music Listings for April 3-9 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The work boasts several such dramatically colorful scenes and some of Donizetti’s most haunting music, like Mary’s Act III prayer, in which her voice soars over the chorus. Joyce DiDonato Takes On ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Met 2012-12-30T05:03:03Z Traditionalists don’t have to worry: Jamie Barton, the galvanizing young mezzo-soprano, will take out her silver nose stud before she takes the Metropolitan Opera stage on Saturday in Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena.” Jamie Barton, Opera’s Nose-Studded Rock Star, Returns to the Met 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Like other houses in Italy, this one labors under straitened circumstances due to cutbacks in government financing, but it soldiers on, producing a handful of operas by Donizetti and others over four months. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z For now, he shines as a "bel canto" tenor - meaning beautiful singing - in works by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. Tenor Brownlee shows race no hurdle to his career 2010-04-30T10:39:00Z Mr. Benini understands that in Donizetti what may sound like a standard oompah-pah accompaniment is an integral musical element that lifts a melody, provides harmonic and rhythmic substance, and offers flexible support to the singers. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z But the sizzling energy of a terrific cast freshened this creaky production when Donizetti’s charming comedy returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday evening for the first performance of the season. Music Review: ?L?Elisir d?Amore? at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-07T00:10:31Z There ensues a classic Italian "mad scene", worthy of a Donizetti opera: Luciano sits alone, in an empty apartment, contemplating a cricket. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z What seriousness should we attach to his remark during the same interview about that work’s Donizetti music, that “Nobody would want to listen to it twice”? Dance: How Shall We Know the Choreographer? By His Dances and More 2010-03-12T00:29:00Z The casual misogyny of Strauss’s only opera buffa — a work that unfolds like a love letter to Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti — was hardly a point of controversy when it premiered in Dresden in 1935. Review: ‘The Silent Woman,’ an Opera About Putting on an Opera 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z In the last extended scene, Donizetti excelled himself. Music Review: ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Metropolitan, With Joyce DiDonato 2013-01-02T00:03:57Z Although he is frequently cast in Rossini, Donizetti or Bellini operas, where rapid-fire strings of notes regularly loop up and down the musical staff, Florez said he is always looking for new challenges. Vocal acrobatics of "La Donna del Lago" an "Olympic" challenge 2013-05-18T15:11:39Z I'm not averse to getting my fix in the form of something purely escapist, for example, Donizetti's comic opera La Fille du Régiment. How a modest Italian film trumped the extravagance of Donizetti 2010-06-18T09:00:00Z Donizetti’s comedy is one of my favorite operas, but it can easily go awry. With Different Singers, One Opera Classic Can Seem Like Two 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z With his guidance, she began to specialise in the Italian bel canto repertoire, especially Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi roles such as Violetta in La Traviata. Joan Sutherland, celebrated opera singer, dies aged 83 2010-10-11T17:27:00Z Every role is significant in an opera so rich with ensembles, including a climactic Act I sextet almost as memorable as the enduring sextet from Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor,” and more contrapuntally intricate. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z Verdi modeled some of the choral and vocal ensemble numbers in “Rigoletto” after excerpts from Donizetti’s score. Will Crutchfield Conducts ‘Rigoletto’ at Caramoor 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z His opera debut came at the Graz Opera in 1984, in a production of Donizetti’s farce “Viva la Mamma.” Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z His new recital disc presents a cross-section of arias, familiar and otherwise, by Verdi, Puccini and Donizetti. Vittorio Grigolo: The Italian Tenor 2010-10-07T21:40:00Z Donizetti wrote Orsini as a pants role: a female playing a male character. Music Review: O, Unsmiling Villainess! 2011-02-20T22:50:12Z Presumably they were intended to enrich the stock operatic plot and put flesh on – and take clothes off – Donizetti's cardboard characters. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z Still, where were the audiences for the Strauss and Donizetti operas? Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z Her character was a bundle of nerves in Donizetti’s inspired Act II scene in which Giovanna finally confesses to the queen that she has been the king’s mistress and will become his new wife. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z Granted, this Met season has been unusually narrow: In 2015-16, 71 percent of performances have been of operas by Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti or Rossini. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z In spirit, “The Rivals” harks to Rossini and Donizetti; in sound, it weds Puccini’s generous lyricism to the dancing meters of Bernstein’s “Candide.” Opera Review: Bronx Opera Company’s ‘The Rivals’ at the Lovinger Theater 2014-01-13T19:15:13Z Since 1997 the has presented an series devoted to the bel canto repertory, with an emphasis on Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. Music Review: Sailing a Saucy Ship Into Bel Canto Seas 2011-06-26T22:09:05Z But by transporting Donizetti’s bel canto tragedy to present-day America for his Met debut, Stone is breaking new ground. Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z “Donizetti Variations,” a buoyant Balanchine ballet, is like a constantly revving engine and perfectly suited to Ms. Fairchild’s soubrette qualities. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Balanchine and Robbins Program 2012-01-27T22:23:54Z “Gemma” remained popular for decades after its 1834 premiere in Milan at La Scala, where it enjoyed four more 19th-century productions, a record matched there only by “Lucrezia Borgia” among Donizetti’s operas. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z But I wish she and the Met would perform the Mad Scene as Donizetti and his librettist Cammarano wrote it, without the extended cadenza performed here. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z On Sunday Mr. Brownlee will be the guest artist at the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Grand Finals Concert, a competition he won 10 years ago, singing arias by Rossini and Donizetti. Top Notes That Shatter The Glass Ceiling 2011-03-11T15:32:57Z Donizetti, using an Italian translation of a libretto by Rousseau, presents Pygmalion in a near-suicidal agony of desire. Review: Ahead of ‘My Fair Lady,’ Two Operatic Pygmalions 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The final aria in Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia,” an Oedipally charged melodrama about this most infamous of Renaissance power players, is notoriously difficult to sing. Review: LoftOpera’s ‘Lucrezia Borgia,’ With Flying Bottles of Beer and Poison 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Singing Donizetti’s three queens in one season is a bravura feat, one that Beverly Sills made famous in the 1970s at New York City Opera. Sondra Radvanovsky, Opera Royalty, Takes On Donizetti’s Triple Crown 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Donizetti was, of course, a major beneficiary of the postwar revival of Italian bel canto operas of the early 19th century, which put a premium on vocal beauty and display. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z Mike Figgis, most famous for films such as Leaving Las Vegas and Timecode, is set to direct Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, declaring his enthusiasm for "getting my teeth into a very traditional opera". Terry Gilliam to direct Faust for English National Opera 2010-04-15T21:04:00Z Pretty Yende was adaptability itself, displaying her charming gifts in Donizetti and Gershwin. The Metropolitan Opera Celebrates Itself 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z With her steely point work and sylphlike elevation, Ms. Bouder is in her element in “Donizetti Variations,” seemingly floating in the air as the sweetest of smiles plays across her face. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Ranges From Donizetti to Jazz 2010-05-26T21:43:00Z She has sung Anna Bolena and the other main soprano roles in Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy at the Met, and in 2017 she opened the company’s season in a new production of “Norma,” directed by McVicar. Review: In the Met Opera’s ‘Medea,’ a Soprano Stands Alone 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The Metropolitan Opera, announcing next season’s program, said on Wednesday that it would mount its first production of Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena,” with Anna Netrebko portraying Henry VIII’s second wife. Met Opera Plans ?Anna Bolena? and ?Faust? 2011-02-16T22:58:44Z “Great Performances at the Met: Anna Bolena” presents Gaetano Donizetti’s opera based on the last days of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of British monarch Henry VIII. Founder of the Steinway piano empire is profiled on Smithsonian Channel In addition, the Young Artists Program joins forces with the University of Washington School of Music to present Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" at Meany Hall on the UW campus. Attila the Hun invades Seattle Opera's 2011-12 season 2010-12-31T06:00:05Z In “Donizetti” on Friday, however, as in Wednesday’s “Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux” and in Troy Schumacher’s new “Clearing Dawn” last Tuesday, her neck, head and face relaxed — with rejuvenating effect. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z In that spirit, Seattle Opera's Young Artists Program presents Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," a comic opera in which true love conquers all, Saturday through April 7. Seattle Opera Young Artists Program presents 'Don Pasquale' 2012-03-27T21:35:05Z There is an opera festival dedicated to the composer at the Teatro Gaetano Donizetti, though it is in late November and early December, not when I visited in June. In the June Light of Northern Italy, the Bliss of Bergamo 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z She felt that it was a logical fit for her voice — a way to combine her Met history of bel canto works, like Donizetti’s Tudor operas, and verismo classics like Puccini’s “Tosca.” The Met Opera Takes on ‘Medea’ in the Shadow of Maria Callas 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z If Verdi or Donizetti had set the same libretto, the opera would have lasted for days. Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup 2011-03-24T22:30:01Z The conductor of “Lady Macbeth,” Keri-Lynn Wilson, was also making her debut, and showed mastery of Shostakovich’s score, which is in a savage, if often eerily beautiful, mode that would have stunned Donizetti. Is It the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera? 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Donizetti reserves some of the most beautiful melodies for the King, who, sung by the marvelous baritone Stephen Powell, took on more dignity and vulnerability than the character strictly deserves. Review: Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite,’ a Rare Concert Performance in French at Caramoor 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “I’m not turning down Adinas and Susannas left and right to choose this work, but I’m very, very happy that this work did choose me,” she said, referring to famous Mozart and Donizetti roles. `10 Days in a Madhouse’ opera premieres in Philadelphia, celebrating women’s voices 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z There has never been the slightest doubt about whose side we are on in the nearly two centuries since Donizetti’s most popular opera, written in 1835, has been consistently on the lyric stage. Review: L.A. Opera reimagines a Donizetti heroine as victim of insurrectionist America 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Conductor Giampaolo Bisanti, in his U.S. opera debut, gave a lively and detailed account of Donizetti’s effervescent score, coordinating the busy chorus and the very active principals with apparent ease. Why Seattle Opera’s ‘Elixir of Love’ may be what opera fans need right now 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z And while tapping his foot to the music of Donizetti, Bellini or Verdi, the confirmed bachelor might have conjured an act of civic generosity that ended up supporting arias in centuries to come. A Seattle saloonkeeper’s civic sensibility inspired a lasting auditorium 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The Donizetti opera was supposed to open the 2020-21 season, but was delayed because of pandemic restrictions. Russian opera ‘Boris Godunov’ to open next La Scala season 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Even still, for all the alterations Stone has made, he has also maintained the exquisite silhouette of Donizetti’s music, which, throughout the opera, was conducted with tenderness, intention and exciting dynamic elasticity by Riccardo Frizza. Review | A thoroughly modern meltdown in Met’s reimagined ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z She does very little to show off Donizetti’s coloratura, but rather all flows from her as if without effort. Review: L.A. Opera reimagines a Donizetti heroine as victim of insurrectionist America 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Edita Gruberova, a soprano who reigned over world opera stages for decades, dazzling audiences with her shimmering pianissimos and vocal pyrotechnics in the works of composers including Donizetti, Verdi and Richard Strauss, died Oct. Edita Gruberova, dazzling operatic soprano, dies at 74 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z One can’t, however, fault the soaring music, which features a kind of opera’s greatest hits from the likes of Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, Donizetti and others. Review: 'Falling for Figaro' fails to hit the high (or even so-so) notes 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z “Don Pasquale, A Live Drive-In Opera” Opera Santa Barbara sets Donizetti’s musical comedy in the silent-film industry in the 1920s in this outdoor staging directed by Pacific Opera Project’s Josh Shaw. A huge digital art show will light up DTLA buildings. Here are 22 picks for weekend culture 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The Donizetti theater package includes extras like commentary, interviews and a virtual tour of the renovated theater, its frescoed ceilings given a fresh vibrancy. In Italy, theater reopens in town devastated by COVID 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The orchestra performed the unfinished Requiem funeral Mass of Bergamo native Gaetano Donizetti, one of Italy’s most important 19th century composers. Italy honors, remembers virus dead with Donizetti’s Requiem 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Roberto Devereux in Concert Concert version of LA Opera’s current production of Donizetti’s musical drama about England’s Elizabeth I and her younger lover. Classical music in L.A. this week: Dvorak and Ives with the LA Phil and more 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Songs of Fantasy The Fox Singers perform arias, duets, ensembles and songs from works by Mozart, Bernstein, Donizetti and more. Classical music in L.A. this week: Midori plays Beethoven and more 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Opera for Kids: Elixir of Love Pacific Symphony presents selections from Donizetti’s comic opera. Classical music in L.A. this week: Salutes to Martin Luther King Jr. and more 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z To ensure the health of the Donizetti Festival orchestra, singers and chorus, strict protocols were put into place, including weekly testing and separate rehearsals. In Italy, theater reopens in town devastated by COVID 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Kymach performed pieces by Bizet, Rachmaninov and Donizetti in the final. Singer of the World won by baritone 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z A Spanish opera singer renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2018 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z “Look at the tenor roles of any of the Donizetti operas,” he says. How to thrive under pressure: What can stars of the stage teach us about performing in demanding roles? 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Kathleen Turner, known for words that smoke rather than shimmer, is joining the cast of Gaetano Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment” in the non-singing role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp, the Met said Thursday. Kathleen Turner to make Metropolitan Opera debut 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z After a decade of performing in Europe and Mexico, Ms. Caballé made her U.S. debut on April 20, 1965, substituting for Marilyn Horne in a concert performance of Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia.” Montserrat Caballé, Spanish opera star with ‘indescribably beautiful’ voice, dies at 85 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z All of these qualities made her voice particularly well suited to the bel canto repertory, consisting of elegant, filigreed works by 19th-century Italians like Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini. Montserrat Caballé, Revered Spanish Prima Donna, Dies at 85 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Like others before her, race wasn't an issue when she sang Mozart or Donizetti at the Met. Kathleen Battle, Julia Bullock and the saga of opera singers of color 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Love's Passions and Potions The Verdi Chorus and guest vocalists perform works by Verdi, Donizetti, et al. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Nov. 12-19: 'Bernstein on Stage,' 'War of the Worlds' and more – LA Times 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z On one bookshelf stand bound volumes of the Talmud; on another are boxed CDs of operas by the likes of Berlioz, Donizetti and Mussorgsky. Pennsylvania cantor, once on Schindler’s List, sings on 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z She was best known, however, for her lyrical singing in the 19th-century Italian bel canto tradition, including works by such composers as Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti and Giacomo Puccini. Montserrat Caballé, Spanish opera star with ‘indescribably beautiful’ voice, dies at 85 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Matt Innes tweeted: "Delightful Donizetti interrupted for a fire alarm, but about to restart to a cheer. Blitz spirit right here." Royal Opera House cast and audience evacuated - BBC News 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The seven selections, mostly bel canto arias by Rossini, Donizetti or Bellini, reflect stages of her story, triumphs in vocal competitions or important debuts. Music Review: Pretty Yende debut underscores lyric abilities 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The production of Donizetti's tragic opera directed by Katie Mitchell had been preceded by warnings of explicit sex scenes and violence. Royal Opera House audience boo violent production of Lucia di Lammermoor - BBC News 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Radvanovsky is upfront about the fact that Donizetti didn’t conceive of these operas as a formal trilogy. Sondra Radvanovsky: 'Singing bel canto means living like a nun' 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z I started with Rossini and Donizetti and then Mozart, which was quite normal, logical for my age. Soprano Antonacci goes her own operatic way 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z He became an immediate favourite and returned many times, in his favourite Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini. Carlo Bergonzi obituary 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Wagner on the piano is absurd, just as absurd as were Donizetti and Rossini. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The only acquaintances I intend to make here are musical ones, that I may leave nothing incomplete,—for instance Fodor, who does not sing in public, Donizetti, Coccia, etc. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z He would have always remained the poet, and perhaps have pushed to newer scenes, but, like Schumann, Donizetti, Smetana and Hugo Wolf, his brain gave way under the strain of intense study. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z "Go to Donizetti," cried Barbaja, "and tell him to give you a part without a moment's delay." The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Donizetti actually wrote only eight, but it’s now standard practice for tenors to add a final, ringing ninth one. American tenor Lawrence Brownlee scores with high Cs in role that made Pavarotti world-famous 2011-12-13T07:26:00Z Of course, lavish colorature seems appropriate and is considered imperative; but Donizetti's florid fancies are mere plumes and flounces draped upon a melody, whereas with Thomas these form the texture of the theme. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z I go this evening to Madame Fodor's with Donizetti, Benedict, etc. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Here, in winter, a short opera season is enjoyed, and, in consequence, the music books of the young ladies teem with arrangements of Verdi and of Donizetti. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z On one occasion Donizetti, engaged at that time as accompanist at the Scala Theatre, had been requested to try the voice of a lady who had come to Barbaja with a letter of recommendation. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z We played Donizetti's little opera to houses of frantic enthusiasm, first in Baltimore, then in Washington on May the third, where naturally the war fever was at its highest heat. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Not far from the chapel is the house in which Donizetti died. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Then he justified his preference for Donizetti and Rossini with a readiness that made his past sarcasm on their modes quickly forgotten. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Meyerbeer, Rossini, and Donizetti are not the names of Frenchmen; and the operas of these and other foreign composers are constantly given in the Rue Lepelletier. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z But with the exception of Meyerbeer's Africaine and Donizetti's Favorita, no leading operatic part has for the last fifty years or more been written for the contralto voice. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z The opera was not long enough for a full evening's entertainment, so Miss Hinckley was put on in the same bill in Donizetti's Betly. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Music, too, is in high vogue in Astrakhan, and many of Donizetti's pieces are sung there by brilliant and cultivated voices. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Nevada made her second appearance, performing the character of "Lucia" in Donizetti's opera, when the receipts were almost equal to those of the first night. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z Grisi will once more undertake some of the parts which she created, and in her impersonations of which will be revived the traditions obtained direct from Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z Nor has Donizetti produced any work so full of melody as Semiramide, or so dramatic as William Tell. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z But when once mastered, how the music enchanted me; how it satisfied a thirst that had never been satisfied by Donizetti or Bellini! Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z It sometimes may exist with considerable intellect, as in the case of Donizetti. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The operatic repertoire at that date consisted mostly of works by Bellini, Donizetti, and Mercadante. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z July 18 Location in a Donizetti Opera A first-time constructor, David Blake, provides some aids for treasure hunters. Numberplay: Rare Coincidences Are Very Common! 2010-07-19T17:57:00Z Donizetti, like so many other composers, was not encouraged by his parents to adopt the career in which he was destined to obtain so much distinction. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Poliuto by Donizetti was never as brilliant a success as other operas by the same composer. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Donizetti's opera of Marino Faliero has been produced at Castle Garden, for the first time in America. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Harper plays solo from Harper's Miscellany, arranged by Donizetti. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 After a thorough drilling in solfeggios and technical exercises, I would have the student work on the operatic arias of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and others. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Donizetti never went to work without the paternal scraper by his side. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z The music of Poliuto was easy and showed off the voice, like all of Donizetti's music: and the part of Paulina was exceptionally fine, with splendid opportunities for dramatic work. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z They who could eat—which I couldn't—say, that Gougon was admirable; and the band played some of Donizetti's pieces with great precision and effect. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) Aside from her wonderful executive art in singing, Madame Persiani will be remembered as having contributed, perhaps, more than any other singer to making the music of Donizetti popular. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday The music of the older Italian composers, from Scarlatti or Carissimi to Donizetti and Bellini, despite the absurd libretti of their operas, demanded first of all dulcet tones and limpid fluency. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists What Donizetti's father should have given him was not a scraper but a pair of scissors. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z The disputes arising from this cause ultimately led to Donizetti’s enlisting in the army. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" For years I had listened to Wagner’s music, and, like most of my compatriots, brought up on the tuneful airs of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Auber, etc., A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things I went thrice and was well repaid for the dollars, in sweet music of Auber and Donizetti—there were two primas—for serious and comique—both, too, primas in prettiness. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia "A world of bright eyes and soft tresses and white shoulders, with Donizetti's music and Mo�t's champagne, was not to be despised, after all." The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life No composer, with the exception of Mozart, possessed a more remarkable memory than Donizetti. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z The success of this work, and of a second opera brought out in the following year, established Donizetti’s reputation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" No one had thought of her in this character and her duet from the opera of L’elisir d’Amore, by Donizetti, was a great surprise. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso The music of the opera was poor, but it was not worse than much of Donizetti's music, and it was composed by an Englishman. Records of Later Life Donizetti, a year before his death, had lost all his faculties, in consequence of a softening of the spinal marrow. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 The operas, however, of Donizetti's youth were much simpler affairs than these latter-day productions. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z A paralytic stroke in 1844 deprived Donizetti of his reason; for four years he lingered on in a state of mental and physical prostration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The clerk betook himself to his bowling or billiards and the mechanic to the circus, while beauty and fashion repaired to the concert room or to the Opéra Français, to listen to Halévy or Donizetti. The Strollers Donizetti's opera "La Fille du Régiment" presented by the French Company in New Orleans. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events "Poor Donizetti!" said he; "what a pity he should have died so soon!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Strangely enough it was not until Rossini had ceased to write that Donizetti, his immediate successor, exhibited something like a style of his own. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z There is a strange parallelism observable in the lives of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" But his greatest triumphs at this period were those which awaited him in the great opera-houses of London, where he sang the leading tenor rôles in the operas of Bellini and Donizetti. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Donizetti's opera "La Favorita" presented by the French Company in New Orleans. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events She is perfectly ignorant of the history of music; hates classical works; knows few of the masters' names save Verdi, Donizetti, Offenbach, and Mozart, the latter only as the composer of 'Don Giovanni.' Music and Some Highly Musical People Neither in his earlier operas does Bellini, like Donizetti, resemble Rossini, nor in his later ones does he, like Donizetti, approach what was afterwards to be known as the style of Verdi. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z His second master was Mattei, the head master of the celebrated music school of Bologna, where Donizetti resided for three years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Compare these men with composers of the order of Abt, Steibelt, Thalberg, and Donizetti, and you will see at once what I mean about originality being the basis of permanent art. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression Donizetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia" presented in New Orleans. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events Besides more than threescore of operas, Donizetti composed seven masses, twelve string quartets, and a host of songs, cantatas and vespers, as well as pianoforte music. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Taking it, however, for what it is worth, Donizetti's successor, Verdi, would doubtless have made more of it than Donizetti himself has done. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z As regards artistic genius Donizetti can by no means be compared with his illustrious countrymen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" But, some one will argue, with the passing of bel canto what will become of the operas of Mozart, Bellini, Rossini, and Donizetti? The Merry-Go-Round We like Beethoven and Chopin, but we also like Rossini and Donizetti and delight in Lecocq and Sullivan. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science And he enjoyed music of all kinds, not only the modern operas of Mascagni, Puccini and so on, but also the old music of Verdi, Donizetti and Bellini. Diversions in Sicily Donizetti was now composing operas at the rate of about three a year. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Donizetti's Lucrezia was one of the first tragic operas to command great success, notwithstanding its dreadful theme and its light music, which is half French, half Italian. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas We didn't in the least mind the noise that the Donizetti family made overhead; though once when the chandelier nearly came down the professor did say they ought to live in the cellar! The Music Master Novelized from the Play Then he grasped his bâton, tapped lightly upon the rack in front of him, and the delightful overture to Donizetti's great work commenced. Monte-Cristo's Daughter But Peppino said that in some respects Donizetti was a better man than Dante; he was smoother and better tempered, “and many things like this.” Diversions in Sicily In 1835, however, Donizetti produced an opera which was received with enthusiasm, which soon became popular throughout Europe, and which seems to possess as much vitality now as when it was first brought out. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z The four persons acting in the play, have excellent parts for good singers, as Donizetti thoroughly knew how to treat the human voice. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas But Vladimir had spent many an evening at the opera with Ivan; and had studied well the expressions that Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, even Flotow, at his best, could bring out upon his companion's mobile face. The Genius M. Léon d' Armilly, brother of the prima donna, who supports her in Donizetti's opera, also refuses to be communicative. Monte-Cristo's Daughter I said it appeared to me he had practically p. 64expressed the opinion that Donizetti was a more precious gift of God to man than Dante. Diversions in Sicily Of the last act of Lucia, which, until the reign of the light sopranos set in, used to be considered the crowning glory of the opera, Donizetti wrote both words and music. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z This opera, one of Donizetti's last compositions is a little jewel of the modern Italian kinds. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Rubini identified the redundancies of ornament with the overflowings of feeling, and the music of Donizetti furnished him most happily with the means of developing this power. Gryll Grange True, virtuosity is frequently a vehicle for personal display, as, notably, in the operas of Cimarosa, Bellini, Donizetti, and the earlier works of Rossini and Verdi. Style in Singing She invited the notables who had insulted the Borgia to a banquet, and killed them with poisoned wine.—Donizetti, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 In the case of the last act of Lucia, Donizetti not only wrote the words; he designed the scenes. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Thus the impression grew and Lucretia Borgia became the type of all feminine depravity until finally Victor Hugo in his drama, and Donizetti in his opera, placed her upon the stage in that character. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day But for supplying expressive music to a singer like Rubini, I think Donizetti has no equal; at any rate no superior. Gryll Grange I have said that the operas of Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi abound in instances requiring the hastening or slackening of the tempo. Style in Singing It was indeed," said Diana sorrowfully, "for in Florence, at the Pension Donizetti, on the Lung Arno, we met with Lydia Clyne and her father. The Silent House But the fourth act of La Favorita is worth all the rest of the opera, and it may well be regarded as the finest act Donizetti has composed. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Acquitting herself with ease in both German and Italian, and being exceedingly versatile, she won equal renown in the operas of Weber, Mozart, Rossini, and Donizetti. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music The composers who wrote operas for the generation that witnessed Adelina Patti's début at the Academy of Music, in New York, were Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, and Meyerbeer. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art She was given the part of Jane Seymour in Donizetti's "Anna Bolena," which she looked and acted to perfection, Pasta personating the unfortunate Queen. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens So for Europe we started, and after many years of travel about the Continent we settled down in the Pension Donizetti in Florence. The Silent House Donizetti is said to have sketched and in the main to have completed this act at a single sitting, and in the space of some three or four hours. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z She was supported by an admirable company, among whom were Donizetti the tenor and Giulia Grisi, then youthful and inexperienced, but giving promise of what she became in her splendid prime of beauty and genius. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag Nearly all of these singers, even those still living and remembered by the younger generation of to-day, exploited their gifts in the operas of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, the early Verdi, and Meyerbeer. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art The opera was a great success, no little of which was due to the neglected song which Donizetti had almost forgotten. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens Donizetti's kindness of heart was illustrated by the interesting circumstances of his saving an obscure Neapolitan theatre from ruin. Great Italian and French Composers In portraying the original of the jealous husband, Donizetti exhibits all the earnestness and vigour of Verdi, whom, as before observed, he resembles more in Maria di Rohan than in any of his earlier works. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z On December 7 she will headline the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale, which will run until January 20. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s He was in Paris when Donizetti's tuneful music was first heard; and he was going to the opera as often as he could. Inquiries and Opinions Success as a Singer.—Donizetti writes one of his Great Operas for her.—Personnel, Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens The manager said a new work from the pen of Donizetti would be his salvation. Great Italian and French Composers At least two-thirds of Donizetti's operas have never been heard in England. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Is it, then, so difficult to obtain the requisite knowledge of the human voice, and to study the scores of Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti with a special regard to this? Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances Besides that, in Styria they were fond of playing the old Italian operas of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. Musicians of To-Day The composer Donizetti had always been charmed with her voice as suiting the peculiar style of music in which he excelled, and he determined to compose an opera for her. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens In composing Donizetti never used the pianoforte, writing with great rapidity and never making corrections. Great Italian and French Composers Donizetti, as has already been said, worked for some time before and for many years after Bellini, whom he preceded and survived. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z We should never have known the great days of the Italian theatre, if Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, and Verdi had had to undergo our régime. Musical Memories Even the modern successors of these men, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi, in his earlier years, have become dead letters musically, although only as late as 1845, Donizetti was at the very zenith of his fame. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University But her impersonation of Lucia in Donizetti's opera was sentimental, impassioned, and pathetic to a degree which saved her from the reproach which was sometimes directed against her other performances—lack of unction and abandon. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens Even more lacking in exact and extended musical science than Donizetti, he could express what came within his range with a simple vigor, grasp, and beauty, which make him a truly dramatic composer. Great Italian and French Composers It would have been necessary, perhaps, to have been a little blind not to perceive the merit of three such masters as Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z When he did work for Paris after he had given Margherita d’Anjou and Le Crociato in Italy, he was forced to accommodate himself to French taste just as Rossini and Donizetti were. Musical Memories In works written for foreign theatres Donizetti took more pains, and 'La Favorite,' produced in Paris in 1840, is in many ways the strongest of his tragic works. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Success as a Singer.—Donizetti writes one of his Great Operas for her.—Personnel, Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens Donizetti had been dining at the house of a friend, who was engaged in the evening to go to a ball. Great Italian and French Composers Rossini and Donizetti had both been under engagements to Barbaja, and he was not going to allow Bellini to escape him. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z The first part of the performance was Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regiment," beautifully sung by members of the regular company. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Donizetti, as we have seen, enriched the repertory of opera buffa with several masterpieces of gay and brilliant vivacity, but few of the lighter works of his contemporaries deserve permanent record. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. On reaching his library at home, Donizetti unearthed from a pile of dusty manuscript tumbled under the piano what appeared to be a song. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens On leaving the house, his host, with profuse apologies, begged the composer to stay and finish his coffee, of which Donizetti was inordinately fond. Great Italian and French Composers I was trained first as a coloratura and taught to do all the old Italian operas of Bellini, Rosini, Donizetti and the rest of the florid Italian school. Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers Donizetti was a genuine descendant of the true line of opera-composers upon whom Gluck laid his curse, and he spent his life in devising pleasant noises to make his patrons' evenings pass agreeably. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians To this silly plot is allied some of the most delightful music Donizetti ever wrote. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. For brilliant gayety it stands in the front rank of all comic operas, though Donizetti was but three weeks in writing it. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Donizetti and Bellini were peculiarly moulded by the great genius of Rossini, but in their best works they show individuality, color, and special creative activity. Great Italian and French Composers Donizetti, whose wealth of melodious music swayed the Italians as it did later the English, was so impressed by it that he continually repeated, "It is fine, uncommonly fine." The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Even the famous "Spirito Gentil" is merely a stream of the brackish water that flowed, day and night, from Donizetti's pen, only it happens to be a little clearer than usual. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Donizetti had little musical education, and his spirit rebelled so strongly against the rules of counterpoint that he preferred to go into the army rather than to devote himself to church music. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Rummaging among a pile of manuscripts, Donizetti pulled out a song. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Donizetti arrived at his freshest creations at a time when there seemed but little left for him except the trite and threadbare. Great Italian and French Composers Last night I went to see the amusing opera of Don Pasquale, by Donizetti, which was quite laudably performed. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 The younger Verdi is not, after all, so vast an improvement on Donizetti and Bellini. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians The opera was so ludicrous and unblushing an imitation of Donizetti and Bellini, that the artists could scarcely sing for laughter. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. In strange contrast with the gay humor of "Don Pasquale," it may be stated that in the same year Donizetti wrote the mournful "Don Sebastian," which has been described as "a funeral in five acts." The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Originally a pupil, thoroughly imbued with the method and spirit of Rossini, though never lacking in original quality, Verdi as a young man shared the suffrages of admiring audiences with Donizetti and Bellini. Great Italian and French Composers Lucrezia no sooner saw him die than she died also.—Donizetti, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The lover never asks his fair one if she admires Donizetti's compositions, but tenderly inquires if she loves beef-steak pies. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada It is a significant fact that Donizetti's lighter works have stood the test of time more successfully than his more serious efforts. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. The popular verdict has stamped "Lucia" as Donizetti's masterpiece, and if the consensus of musicians could be obtained, it would unquestionably confirm the verdict. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers His first opera, "Enrico di Borgogna," was so highly admired by the Venetian manager, to whom, it was offered, that he induced friends of his to release young Donizetti from his military servitude. Great Italian and French Composers Not a note of Donizetti's delicious music was lost on him. The Woman in White Then a lot of rubbish about the former greatness of Venice, the glories of old music, the former Conservatoires, all mixed up with anecdotes of Rossini and Donizetti, whom he pretends to have known intimately. Hauntings Here we see Donizetti at his best, because here he writes according to the natural dictates of his imagination, not in accordance with the foolish or depraved taste of fashionable connoisseurs. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. The music of the work is very dramatic in its character, some of the finales being the strongest Donizetti has written. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers He had no flexibility, no command over mirthful inspiration, such as we hear in Mozart, Rossini, or even Donizetti. Great Italian and French Composers This wild, terrible, beautiful woman may be Judith if you choose: she might be Medea or Agave, or Salome, or the Lucrezia Borgia of popular fancy and Donizetti. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett But it is unhappy for me that Verdi is the musical god of Italy at present, because the bands play entirely from his operas, which remind me of a diluted Donizetti. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis The boxes, with the innocent ignorance of the oeil-de-boeuf, propose to maintain the old order, to stand by Bellini and Donizetti and the last half-century. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 This finale is clearly Italian in form, and much to Wagner's subsequent disgust was described by Hanslick as a mixture of Donizetti and Meyerbeer, and a clear presage of the coming Verdi. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Subsequently he drifted to Italy, and married an Italian lady of some rank, denationalizing his own name into Donizetti. Great Italian and French Composers He was the son of "La Favorita," who will outlast all legitimate princesses, in the deathless music of Donizetti. Castilian Days Never did her voice have the lovely quality which had always characterized it in the music of Donizetti and Gounod. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time And, indeed, there was a finale in which my 'German master' had actually tried to steal a march on Donizetti. My Life — Volume 1 Gluck today, Donizetti tomorrow, Weber today, Rossini or Auber tomorrow, serious today, frivolous tomorrow—what is the result? Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 Let us first sketch the career of Donizetti, the author of sixty-four operas, besides a mass of other music, such as cantatas, ariettas, duets, church music, etc., in the short space of twenty-six years. Great Italian and French Composers It is a wedding chorus from one of Donizetti's operas; but we have converted it. Major Barbara Music plays a very different rôle in it than it does in the operas of Donizetti, Bellini, and the earlier Verdi. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time After this misfortune Paris no longer existed for me, and all I had to do was to go back to my miserable bedroom and resume my work of arranging Donizetti's operas. My Life — Volume 1 That the people can do neither Gluck nor Donizetti, neither the serious nor the frivolous. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 Donizetti was so poorly paid that need drove him to rapid composition, which could not wait for the true afflatus. Great Italian and French Composers Donizetti's skull was stolen before the funeral, and was afterwards sold to a pork butcher, who used it as a money-bowl. Haydn Certainly not, if that type was represented by any of the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, or of Verdi himself when he was the popular idol. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time He had the whole shoal of Bellini's, Donizetti's, Adam's, and Auber's operatic scores copied out, and I was to give the good people of Riga the benefit of them with all possible speed. My Life — Volume 1 In "II Segreto" there is a combination of all the styles that prevailed from Mozart to Donizetti. A Second Book of Operas Donizetti lacked the dramatic instinct in conceiving his music. Great Italian and French Composers M. Aubert, who conducted, did not put any of his own music on the programme: Rossini, Mozart, and Donizetti, that was all. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Sembrich is a lovely singer,—lovely of person, of address, of voice; and her artistic acquirements, in the limited field in which Donizetti's opera called them into activity, at least, are of the highest rank. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time The harmony is no doubt a little developed, Wagner augmenting his fifths with a G sharp where Donizetti would have put his fingers in his ears and screamed for G natural. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring This duet is one of the most beautiful, expressive and terrible conceptions that has ever emanated from the fruitful pen of Donizetti. The Count of Monte Cristo Donizetti, who was Sigismondi's pupil, also tells an amusing incident of his preceptor's disgust. Great Italian and French Composers Wagner defended it against the taste of the Parisians, who preferred Rossini and Donizetti, and was snubbed for his pains by the editor of the Gazette Musicale, who was an officer of the French government. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time |
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