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Le Donne Curiose
''Le donne curiose'' (English: ''The Inquisitive Women'') is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by after Carlo Goldoni's play . Performance history The first dramatic work by Wolf-Ferrari to achieve more than local notice, it was first performed in Munich on 27 November 1903 in a German translation as ''Die neugierigen Frauen''. The first performance in Italian was at the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York on 3 January 1912 with a cast led by Arturo Toscanini, including Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker. Tullio Serafin conducted the first performance in Milan on 16 January 1913. Roles Synopsis The story is a comedy set in 18th-century Venice about two wives checking up on the goings-on at their husband's club. Notes References *Warrack, John John Hamilton Warrack (born 1928, in London) is an English music critic, writer on music, and oboist. Warrack is the son of Scottish conductor and composer Guy Warrack. He was educated at Wincheste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (born Ermanno Wolf) (January 12, 1876 – January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as '' Il segreto di Susanna'' (1909). A number of his works were based on plays by Carlo Goldoni, including ''Le donne curiose'' (1903), ''I quatro rusteghi'' (1906) and ''Il campiello'' (1936). Life Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was born in Venice in 1876, the son of German painter August Wolf and Emilia Ferrari, from Venice. He added his mother's maiden-name, Ferrari, to his surname in 1895. Although he studied piano from an early age, music was not the primary passion of his young life. As a teenager Wolf-Ferrari wanted to be a painter like his father; he studied intensively in Venice and Rome and traveled abroad to study in Munich. It was there that he decided to concentrate instead on music, taking lessons from Josef Rheinberger. He enrolled at the Munich conservatory and began taking counterpoint and composition classes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Huhn
Charlotte Huhn (15 September 1865 – 15 June 1925) was a German operatic contralto. Life and career Huhn was born the youngest of five children in a hairdressing family at 27 Grapengiesserstrasse in Lüneburg. When her father died, one of her brothers took over the hairdressing salon and financed most of the maintenance and education costs. In 1881, the musically gifted Charlotte Therese Caroline Huhn began her vocal studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo RiemensHuhn, Charlotte ''Großes Sängerlexikon'', vol. 3, . The wife of the mayor of the city of Lüneburg, Marie Gravenhorst, also contributed as a patron to the financing of the music studies. After graduating from Cologne in 1885, Huhn first performed as a concert singer. She then continued her training in Berlin in 1887 with the private music teacher (1832–1909) and with the singing teacher Mathilde Mallinger (1847–1920). She made her debut in 1889 at the Berlin Kroll Opera as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrack, John
John Hamilton Warrack (born 1928, in London) is an English music critic, writer on music, and oboist. Warrack is the son of Scottish conductor and composer Guy Warrack. He was educated at Winchester College (1941-6) and then at the Royal College of Music (1949–52). In the early 1950s he was a freelance oboist, playing mostly with the Boyd Neel Orchestra and Sadler's Wells Orchestra. From 1954 until 1961 he was music critic for ''The Daily Telegraph'', and from 1961 until 1972 he was music critic for ''The Sunday Telegraph''. From 1978 until 1983 he served as the Artistic Director of the Leeds Festival. From 1984 until 1993 he taught on the music faculty at the University of Oxford. He is the author of ''Six Great Composers'' (1955); ''Carl Maria von Weber'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1968, 2nd ed. Cambridge UP, 1976), the standard study of Weber in English; ''German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner'' (2001) and the co-author of ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera'' (1964, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Alten
Bella Alten (June 30, 1877 – December 31, 1962) was an operatic soprano who performed at the Metropolitan Opera House during the early 1900s. Bella Alten was born in Zaskaczewo, Poland. She studied with Gustav Engel and Joachim at the Imperial Conservatory in Berlin, and later with Aglaja Orgeni in Dresden. Her first appearance in opera was as Aennchen in ''Der Freischütz'' in 1897 after which engagements followed in Berlin, Brunswick, Cologne and London. She was singing Cherubino in ''Le Nozze di Figaro'', Nedda in '' Pagliacci'' and Eva in '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' under Hans Richter when Heinrich Conried, the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager, heard her at the Covent Garden and engaged her for the Met. Her New York debut took place in November 1904 as Cherubino in ''Le Nozze di Figaro'' in a cast that included Emma Eames, Marcella Sembrich and Antonio Scotti. During her nine seasons at the Metropolitan (1904–1908 and 1909–1914) she sang 31 differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Pini-Corsi
Antonio Pini-Corsi (12 June 1859 – 21 April 1918) was an Italian operatic baritone of international renown. He possessed a ripe-toned voice of great flexibility and displayed tremendous skill at patter singing. Pini-Corsi participated in numerous operatic premieres, portraying on stage such characters as Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's '' Falstaff'' and Schaunard in Giacomo Puccini's ''La bohème''. Part of the first generation of recorded musicians, Pini-Corsi was one of the finest buffo singers of his era. Career Pini-Corsi was born into an Italian musical family in Zara, later known as Zadar, in what is now Croatia. His father Giovanni Pini (a tenor) and his mother Elisabetta Corsi had him educated in singing by Antonio Ravasio and his maternal uncle Achille Corsi, also a tenor. Achille's brother Giovanni and his daughter Emilia were also singers. Many of Pini-Corsi's relatives sang professionally, most notably his brother Gaetano, who was a successful operatic tenor. He made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Brodersen
Friedrich Brodersen (1 December 1873 - 19 March 1926) was a German operatic baritone. Born in Bad Boll, he studied singing with Heinrich Bertram. He made his professional opera debut in 1900. He created roles in several world premieres during his career, including Pantalone in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's ''Le donne curiose'' (1903), Count Gil in Wolf-Ferrari's '' Il segreto di Susanna'' (1909), Simone Trovai in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's ''Violanta'' (1916), Morone in Hans Pfitzner's ''Palestrina'' (1917), Sang in Heinrich Rohr's '' Das Vaterunser'', and roles in Paul von Klenau's ''Sulamith'' (1913), and Walter Braunfels Walter Braunfels (; 19 December 1882 – 19 March 1954) was a German composer, pianist, and music educator. Life Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt. His first music teacher was his mother, the great-niece of the composer Louis Spohr. He c ...'s '' Die Vögel'' (1920). References 1873 births 1926 deaths German operatic baritones 20th-century German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Didur
Adam Didur or Adamo Didur (24 December 18747 January 1946) was a famous Polish operatic bass singer. He sang extensively in Europe and had a major career at New York's Metropolitan Opera from 1908 to 1932. Career He was born on 24 December 1874 in Wola Sękowa near Sanok, Poland.''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 2nd edition'' (1980); ''Großes Sängerlexikon'', Vol. 4 (2003). Didur studied in Lwów with Walery Wysocki and later with Franz Emmerich in Milan. He made his vocal debut as a soloist at a concert performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Milan, Italy. His operatic stage debut came in 1894 as Méphistophélès in Gounod's ''Faust'' in Rio de Janeiro. Besides South America, he also toured Egypt and Italy in 1894, including the small town of Pierolo near Turin where he met his first wife, a Mexican singer Angela Aranda Arellano. After steady years at Warsaw Opera from 1899 to 1903, Didur launched a career at major European opera houses. His gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bender (bass)
Paul Bender (28 July 1875 – 25 November 1947) was a German operatic bass. Life Born in Driedorf, Westerwald, as the son of a Protestant minister, Bender began his vocal training while studying medicine in Berlin. His music instructors were Luise Ress and Baptist Hoffmann. Already by 1900, Bender made his stage debut at the Breslau Opera. In 1903 he moved to the Münchner Hofoper, where he remained for the rest of his life, in September 1943 celebrating his 40-year anniversary as a member of the ensemble. Altogether he trod the stage more than 2000 times. In Munich, Bender sang practically all the important bass roles and also performed as a Heldenbariton. His repertory altogether included not fewer than 118 roles. He took part in many premieres, among them ''Le donne curiose'' in 1903 and ''I quatro rusteghi'' in 1906, both by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. He shone as Pope Pius V in the first performances of Hans Pfitzner's ''Palestrina'' in 1917 at the Prinzregententheater. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baritone
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C (i.e. F2–F4) in choral music, and from the second A below middle C to the A above middle C (A2 to A4) in operatic music, but the range can extend at either end. Subtypes of baritone include the baryton-Martin baritone (light baritone), lyric baritone, ''Kavalierbariton'', Verdi baritone, dramatic baritone, ''baryton-noble'' baritone, and the bass-baritone. History The first use of the term "baritone" emerged as ''baritonans'', late in the 15th century, usually in French sacred polyphonic music. At this early stage it was frequently used as the lowest of the voices (including the bass), but in 17th-century Italy the term was all-encompassing and used to describe the averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Maubourg
Jeanne Maubourg (November 10, 1873 – 9 May 1953) was a Belgian opera singer. She sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1909 to 1914, taught voice in Montreal, and was heard in Canadian radio dramas in the 1930s and 1940s. Early life Jeanne Maubourg was born Jeanne Elisabeth Goffaux in Namur, the daughter of Alexis Hippolyte Goffaux, a musical conductor, and Marie Anne Nottet. (Her birth record gives 1873 as the date; most secondary sources give 1875 as the year.) Career Maubourg, a mezzo-soprano, began her opera career at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in 1897. She performed at London's Covent Garden for four seasons beginning in 1900. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera from 1909 to 1914. She was in the cast when Arturo Toscanini conducted the American premiere of Gluck's '' Armide'' in 1910, sharing the stage with Enrico Caruso, Olive Fremstad, Louise Homer and Alma Gluck. She was also in the American premieres of ''Le donne curiose'' in 1912 and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Breuer (tenor)
Hans Breuer (27 April 1868, after other sources 1870 – 11 October 1929) was a German operatic tenor and opera director. Life Born in Cologne, the son of the Cologne cathedral sculptor Peter Breuer first began a commercial apprenticeship. He studied singing with Benno Stolzenberg in Cologne on the advice of the conductor Franz Wüllner then completed his studies at the Bayreuth school with and Cosima Wagner. Breuer made his debut in 1894 in small roles at the Bayreuth Festival. His breakthrough came in 1896 as the mime in ''Siegfried''. Until 1914, he appeared regularly in this role at Bayreuth, and in 1899 also as David in '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg''. From 1896 to 1897, he sang at the Wrocław Opera, and in 1897 he undertook a guest performance tour of North America. From 1899 to 1900, he was a member of the ensemble at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. His debut role here was that of the Steersman in ''The Flying Dutchman''. In 1898 and 1900, he made gues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The low extreme for tenors is widely defined to be B2, though some roles include an A2 (two As below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to the second F above middle C (F5). The tenor voice type is generally divided into the ''leggero'' tenor, lyric tenor, spinto tenor, dramatic tenor, heldentenor, and tenor buffo or . History The name "tenor" derives from the Latin word ''wikt:teneo#Latin, tenere'', which means "to hold". As Fallows, Jander, Forbes, Steane, Harris and Waldman note in the "Tenor" article at ''Grove Music Online'': In polyphony between about 1250 and 1500, the [tenor was the] structurally fundamental (or 'holding') voice, vocal or instrumental; by the 15th century it came to signify the male voice that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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