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Betly
''Betly, ossia La capanna svizzera'' ("Betly, or The Swiss Chalet") is a ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts (originally one) by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. The composer wrote the Italian libretto after Eugène Scribe and Mélésville's libretto for Adolphe Adam's opéra comique '' Le chalet'', in its turn based on Goethe's Singspiel ''Jery und Bätely'' (1779). Performance history The opera premiered at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples on 24 August 1836.Albinati, Giuseppe (1912). ''Piccolo dizionario di opere teatrali, oratori, cantate, ecc.''"''Betly''" Milano: G. Ricordi & C. Retrieved 1 November 2015 .Cassaro, James P. (2009). ''Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide''"''Betly, ossia La capanna svizzera''". Routledge. The initial performance was not well-received due to the vocal decline of Giuseppe Fioravanti, the performer of the baritone role. However, the revision prepared by Donizetti for subsequent performances was a marked success. This success prompted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Fioravanti
Giuseppe Fioravanti ( 1795 – ?) was an Italian opera singer active during the first half of the 19th century. Although one of the most important and popular basso buffos of his generation, there is only a relatively small amount of information available about his life. He had a highly fruitful partnership with the Teatro Nuovo in Naples and is best known today for creating roles in the world premieres of numerous operas by Gaetano Donizetti. Kutsch, Karl-Josef and Riemens, Leo (2004). ''Großes Sängerlexikon'', 4th Edition, Vol. 4, . Walter de Gruyter. Biography Fioravanti was the son of opera composer Valentino Fioravanti (1764–1837) and the older brother of opera composer Vincenzo Fioravanti (1799–1877). His exact year of birth is unknown but it is likely that he was born sometime around 1795. Not much is known about his musical training, although he probably received some education from his father. Fioravanti's first known stage appearance was in 1817 at the Teatro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berliner Operngruppe
The Berliner Operngruppe is a German opera society with its own chorus and orchestra, based in Berlin, with the mission to revive rarely played Italian operas in Berlin. Since 2013 the semi-staged performances take place in Konzerthaus Berlin am Gendarmenmarkt. Since 2010 the Berliner Operngruppe has performed Giuseppe Verdi's '' Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio'' (2010), Gaetano Donizetti's ''Maria di Rohan'' (2011), Giuseppe Verdi's ''Attila'' (2012), Vincenzo Bellini's ''Beatrice di Tenda'' (2013), Giuseppe Verdi's ''I Masnadieri'' (2014), Gaetano Donizetti's ''Betly'' (2015), Giuseppe Verdi's ''Stiffelio'' (2017), Giuseppe Verdi's ''Giovanna d'Arco'' (2018), Giacomo Puccini's ''Edgar'' (2019) and Pietro Mascagni's ''Iris''. The debut album of the Berliner Operngruppe, a live recording of ''Iris'' was released by Oehms Classics on 19 March 2021. On 1 September 2021, they produced Donizetti's ''Deux hommes et une femme'', also known as ''Rita'', in the first performance in German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the '' bel canto'' opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. At an early age he was taken up by Simon Mayr who enrolled him with a full scholarship in a school which he had set up. There he received detailed musical training. Mayr was instrumental in obtaining a place for Donizetti at the Bologna Academy, where, at the age of 19, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy ''Il Pigmalione'', which may never have been performed during his lifetime. An offer in 1822 from Domenico Barbaja, the impresario of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, which followed the composer's ninth opera, led to his move to Naples and his residency there until productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Larousse
Pierre Athanase Larousse (23 October 18173 January 1875) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15-volume ''Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle''. Early life Pierre Larousse was born in Toucy, where his father was a blacksmith. At the age of sixteen he won a scholarship at the teaching school in Versailles. Four years later, he returned to Toucy to teach in a primary school, but became frustrated by the archaic and rigid teaching methods. In 1840 he moved to Paris to improve his own education by taking free courses. Career From 1848 to 1851 he taught at a private boarding school, where he met his future wife, Suzanne Caubel (although they did not marry until 1872). Together, in 1849, they published a French language course for children. In 1851 he met Augustin Boyer, another disillusioned ex-teacher, and together they founded the ''Librairie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revue Et Gazette Musicale De Paris
The ' was a weekly musical review founded in 1827 by the Belgian musicologist, teacher and composer François-Joseph Fétis, then working as professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Conservatoire de Paris. It was the first French-language journal dedicated entirely to classical music. In November 1835 it merged with Maurice Schlesinger's ''Gazette musicale de Paris'' (first published in January 1834) to form ''Revue et gazette musicale de Paris'', first published on 1 November 1835. It ceased publication in 1880. History By 1830 the ''Revue musicale'', written and published by Fétis, was on sale at Maurice Schlesinger's music seller's premises.Vol 7 (Tome VIII, IVme année) (1830) sold by Fétis, Alexandre Mesnier & Schlesinger. See review of Vol. 7 i''Revue française'', Issues 13-14, p. 281-3 Schlesinger (whose father founded the ''Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung'') was a German music editor who had moved to Paris in 1821. Schlesinger published editions of cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Chouquet
Gustave Chouquet (16 April 1819 – 30 January 1886)Grove & Charlton 2001. was a French music historian, music critic, and teacher of French. Early life and career Born Adolphe-Gustave Chouquet in Le Havre, he spent six years in Paris studying at the Massin Institute, but devoted almost all his spare time to studying voice and piano and attending concerts at the Paris Conservatory. In 1836, after receiving his degree ('' bachelier ès lettres''), he returned to Le Havre, where his father was a banker. The latter lost his fortune in creating a railroad company (from Paris to the sea), and in 1840 the family moved to the United States. Gustave produced his first essays of music criticism in New York.Fétis, "Chouquet (Adolphe-Gustave)", 1978vol. 1, pp. 181–182 He was also a professor of French literature and history and published several textbooks of French language instruction. After sixteen years devoted to education, a respiratory ailment caused him to move back to France, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippolyte-Julien-Joseph Lucas
Hippolyte-Julien-Joseph Lucas (20 December 1807, Rennes – 16 November 1878, Paris) was a French writer and critic whose literary output was largely centered on theatre and opera. He was the author of several plays and opera libretti. In addition to his original stage works, Lucas also translated plays and libretti by other authors for performances in French. These included plays by Aristophanes, Euripides, Lope de Vega, and Calderón as well as Donizetti's operas ''Belisario'', ''Maria Padilla'', and ''Linda di Chamounix''. He was the editor of ''Le Siècle'', but his literary and theatrical criticism appeared in many other French journals as well, most notably ''L'Artiste'', ''La Minerve'', and ''Le Charivari''. He was also a bookseller and later served as the librarian of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Principal works Opera librettiSourced from Casaglia (2005) * '' L'étoile de Seville'', grand opéra in four acts, composed by Michael Balfe, 1845 * ''La bouquetière'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Lablache
Frederick Lablache (29 August 1815 – 30 January 1887) was an English singer. The eldest son of Luigi Lablache, vocalist, was educated by his father. He married and worked with the singer Fanny Wyndham. They both taught at the Academy of Music Life left, Fanny Wyndham in costume About 1837 he appeared at the King's Theatre, London, in Italian opera, and afterwards frequently sang at Manchester with Italian singers such as Giovanni Matteo Mario, Giulia Grisi, and Favanti. In 1844 he took a part in ''Così fan tutte'' at Her Majesty's Theatre, and in 1846 in ''Il matrimonio segreto''. He played the part of Count Rodolphe to Jenny Lind's Amina in ''La sonnambula'' on her first visit to Manchester on 28 August 1847 and he also appeared with her in other character roles under the management of Michael Balfe in 1849. About 1865 he withdrew from the stage, and taught at the Royal Academy of Music. His wife, Fanny Wyndham Lablache, who died in 1877, was a vocalist, whose maiden nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltasar Saldoni
Baltasar Simón Tito Saldoni i Remendo (Barcelona, 4 January 1807 - Madrid, 3 December 1889) was a Spanish composer and musicologist. He was a pupil of Francesc Queralt Francesc (sometimes Francisco) Queralt (1740 - 28 February 1825) was a Spanish composer, long active in Barcelona. A native of Les Borges Blanques, Queralt was for many years the ''maestro di capilla'' of Barcelona Cathedral. Greatly respected as .... References 19th-century composers 1807 births 1889 deaths 19th-century musicologists Spanish composers Spanish male composers Spanish musicologists 19th-century Spanish musicians 19th-century Spanish male musicians Musicians from Barcelona {{Spain-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zarzuela
() is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name of a royal hunting lodge, the Palace of Zarzuela, near Madrid, where that type of entertainment was allegedly first presented to the court. The palace in turn was named after the brambles () that grew there. There are two main forms of ''zarzuela'': Baroque ''zarzuela'' (c. 1630–1750), the earliest style, and Romantic ''zarzuela'' (c. 1850–1950). Romantic zarzuelas can be further divided into two main subgenres, ''género grande'' and ''género chico'', although other sub-divisions exist. ''Zarzuela'' spread to the Spanish dominions, and many Spanish-speaking countries – notably Cuba – developed their own traditions. ''Zarzuela'' is also a strong tradition in the Philippines, where it is also referred to in certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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