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Giuseppe Ambrogetti
Giuseppe Ambrogetti (1780John Gamble. ''Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland''. Field Day Publications, 2011. Page 451. - after 1838) was an Italian opera singer of the type basso buffo. He was an excellent buffo. His first performance was in 1807; his debut in Paris was in 1815 in ''Don Giovanni''. He debuted at the opera in London in 1817, where he was very successful. His voice was a bass of no great power, but he was an excellent actor, with a natural vein of humour, though often put into characters unsuited to him as a singer. Yet he acted extremely well, and in a manner too horribly true to nature, the part of the mad father in Ferdinando Paer's opera ''Agnese (opera)'', while the part of the daughter was sung by Violante Camporesi Violante Camporesi, or Camporese (23 December 1785 – 1839), was an Italian soprano. Life Born in Rome in 1785, she was the daughter of an architect, Giulio, and Maddalena Belli. After marrying Giustiniani, she found hers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Ambrogetti
Giuseppe Ambrogetti (1780John Gamble. ''Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland''. Field Day Publications, 2011. Page 451. - after 1838) was an Italian opera singer of the type basso buffo. He was an excellent buffo. His first performance was in 1807; his debut in Paris was in 1815 in ''Don Giovanni''. He debuted at the opera in London in 1817, where he was very successful. His voice was a bass of no great power, but he was an excellent actor, with a natural vein of humour, though often put into characters unsuited to him as a singer. Yet he acted extremely well, and in a manner too horribly true to nature, the part of the mad father in Ferdinando Paer's opera ''Agnese (opera)'', while the part of the daughter was sung by Violante Camporesi Violante Camporesi, or Camporese (23 December 1785 – 1839), was an Italian soprano. Life Born in Rome in 1785, she was the daughter of an architect, Giulio, and Maddalena Belli. After marrying Giustiniani, she found hers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basso Buffo
A bass is a type of Classical music, classical male singing Human voice, voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', a bass is typically classified as having a vocal range extending from around the second E below C (musical note)#Middle C, middle C to the E above middle C (i.e., Scientific pitch notation, E2–E4).; ''The Oxford Dictionary of Music'' gives E2–E4/F4 Its tessitura, or comfortable range, is normally defined by the outermost lines of the Clef#Bass clef, bass clef. Categories of bass voices vary according to national style and classification system. Italians favour subdividing basses into the ''basso cantante'' (singing bass), ''basso buffo'' ("funny" bass), or the dramatic ''basso profondo'' (low bass). The American system identifies the bass-baritone, comic bass, lyric bass, and dramatic bass. The German ''Fach'' system offers further distinctions: Spielbass (Bassbuffo), Schwerer Spielbass (Schwere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buffo
''Opera buffa'' (; "comic opera", plural: ''opere buffe'') is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ''commedia in musica'', ''commedia per musica'', ''dramma bernesco'', ''dramma comico'', ''divertimento giocoso''. Especially associated with developments in Naples in the first half of the 18th century, whence its popularity spread to Rome and northern Italy, ''buffa'' was at first characterized by everyday settings, local dialects, and simple vocal writing (the basso buffo is the associated voice type), the main requirement being clear diction and facility with patter. ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' considers ''La Cilla'' (music by Michelangelo Faggioli, text by , 1706) and Luigi and Federico Ricci's'' Crispino e la comare'' (1850) to be the first and last appearances of the genre, although the term is still occasionally applied to newer work (for example Ernst Krenek's ''Zeitoper'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Giovanni
''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine as told by playwright Tirso de Molina in his 1630 play '' El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra''. It is a ''dramma giocoso'' blending comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements (although the composer entered it into his catalogue simply as ''opera buffa''). It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. ''Don Giovanni'' is regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time and has proved a fruitful subject for commentary in its own right; critic Fiona Maddocks has described it as one of Mozart's "trio of masterpieces with librettos by Da Ponte". Composition and premiere The opera was commissioned after the succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinando Paer
Ferdinando Paer (1 July 1771 – 3 May 1839) was an Italian composer known for his operas. He was of Austrian descent and used the German spelling Pär in application for printing in Venice, and later in France the spelling Paër. Life and career He was born in Parma into a family of Austrian descent. He came from a musical family. His grandfather Michael Pär was a regimental band member from Peterwardein (today Petrovaradin, part of Novi Sad). His father Giulio Paer was a trumpeter with the Ducal Bodyguards and also performed at church and court events; his mother was Francesca Cutica. He was named Ferdinando after Duke Ferdinand of Parma by Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Duke Ferdinand's wife. He studied the music theory under the violinist Ghiretti, a pupil of the Conservatorio della Pietà de' Turchini in Naples. His first Italian opera, ''Circe'', was given during the Carnival of Venice in 1792; others rapidly followed, and his name was soon famous throughout Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnese (opera)
''Agnese'' is an 1809 semi-serious opera by Ferdinando Paer, to a libretto by Luigi Buonavoglia. It was originally composed for private and amateur performance at the Palazzo Scotti near Parma. The opera became the composer's first major success. In 1814 Agnes ran at La Scala for over 50 nights, more performances than '' Don Giovanni'' in the same season, but lost out to ''Don Giovanni'' in London in 1817. The composer having moved to Paris he revised ''Agnese'' for the Théâtre Italien in 1824 with Giuditta Pasta in the role of Agnese and Marco Bordogni Giulio Marco Bordogni (23 January 1789 – 31 July 1856), usually called just Marco Bordogni, was an Italian operatic tenor and singing teacher of great popularity and success, whose mature career was based in Paris.Principal source: Joannes Rochu ... as Ernesto. Recordings *Agnese - DVD - María Rey-Joly (Agnese), Edgardo Rocha (Ernesto), Markus Werba (Uberto), Lucia Cirillo (Carlotta), Giulia Della Peruta, Vespina), Andrea Giov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violante Camporesi
Violante Camporesi, or Camporese (23 December 1785 – 1839), was an Italian soprano. Life Born in Rome in 1785, she was the daughter of an architect, Giulio, and Maddalena Belli. After marrying Giustiniani, she found herself in financial difficulties and therefore thought of dedicating herself to singing professionally. She retired from active singing in 1829 and died in Rome in 1839. Musical career Camporesi performed for the first time in public in 1809 singing arias in a concert in Rome, which were followed by numerous concerts that soon made her famous even outside Italy. She was hired for Napoleon's private concerts to perform in Paris. While in Paris, she trained with Girolamo Crescentini for quite some time to improve her vocal qualities. The political events of those years forced her to leave the country to England where she debuted at Theatre Royal Haymarket on 11 January 1817 in Cimarosa's opera, ''Penelope''. She made her debut at La Scala on 26 December 1818 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Strinasacchi
Teresa Strinasacchi (1768–1838), was an Italian opera singer. She was engaged in the Divadlo v Kotcích in 1793–1797, where she was the prima donna In opera or commedia dell'arte, a prima donna (; Italian for "first lady"; plural: ''prime donne'') is the leading female singer in the company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given. ''Prime donne'' often had grand off-stage pers ... at the time. References * Starší divadlo v českých zemích do konce 18. století. Osobnosti a díla, ed. A. Jakubcová, Praha: Divadelní ústav – Academia 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Strinasacchi, Teresa 1768 births 1838 deaths 18th-century Italian women opera singers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Basses
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1780 Births
Year 178 ( CLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scipio and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 931 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 178 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Bruttia Crispina marries Commodus, and receives the title of '' Augusta''. * Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus arrive at Carnuntum in Pannonia, and travel to the Danube to fight against the Marcomanni. Asia * Last (7th) year of ''Xiping'' era and start of ''Guanghe'' era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * In India, the decline of the Kushan Empire begins. The Sassanides take over Central Asia. Religion * The Montanist heresy is condemned for the first time. Births * Lü Meng, Chinese general (d. 220) * Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Deaths
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Death Unknown
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
