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2023-11-17 19:46:00
[…] Italian territories, Maria Beatrice offered an advantageous match for the Habsburgs, and had originally been intended for one of Ferdinand's elder brothers, Archduke Peter Leopold (now Duke of Tuscany and later Emperor Leopold II). Ferdinand and Maria Beatrice had been engaged since childhood, the treaty thereby concluded recognising Ferdinand as Ercole's heir. (The French Revolutionary Wars would prevent Ferdinand from ever succeeding to Modena). Notwithstanding the connection afforded by Ariosto’s time at the Este court in Ferrara, Ruggiero was held to show neither composer nor librettist at his best. Now gout-ridden and in his eighth decade, Maria Theresa’s old music-master and longstanding favourite composer was eclipsed by the success the following day of a second commissioned opera, from the sixteen-year-old Mozart and Giuseppe Parini: Ascanio in Alba. The two productions had three singers in common: the soprano Antonia Maria Girelli Aguilar, the castrato Giovanni Manzuoli, and the tenor Giuseppe Tibaldi. All […]
2023-10-16 13:50:53
Short Notes I, October 2023
This Week in Classical Music: October 16, 2023. Short notes. It could’ve been a pretty good week, considering the talent we could celebrate, but the horrendous events of October 7th and their aftermath overwhelmed everything else. So, we’ll go over our list very briefly. The Italian composer Luca Marenzio was born on October 18th, 1553 (or 1554) in Coccaglio, near Brescia. Marenzio was one of the most prolific (and famous) composers of madrigals of the second half of the 16th century. Marenzio was lucky in finding great benefactors. For many years he had served at the court of Cardinal Luigi d’Este, son of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Modena and Ferrara. After the cardinal’s death, Marenzio found employment with Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini, nephew of Pope Clement VIII, and later, with Ferdinando I de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. We can assume that while in Florence, he met the three Florentine […]
All the conducting master class
2023-07-25 12:04:08
16 – 24 Sep, 2023 XIII Opera Workshop : Don Giovanni by Mozart For singers, accompanists and directorsSeptember 16-24, 2023 Piove di Sacco (Italy)Final performances at Teatro Comunale of Ferrara, Teatro Sociale of Rovigo, Teatro Filarmonico of Piove di Sacco, Palazzo Zacco Armeni of Padova.The course activities include: singing techniques, stage techniques as well as […]
2022-08-29 13:53:16
Bruckner, 3 conductors, 2022
[…] surprising that one of our conductors never played the music of Bruckner: Tullio Serafin, who was born on September 1st of 1878, was one of the greatest opera conductors of the 20th century and had a limited symphonic career. On top of that, the music of Bruckner wasn’t popular in Italy till much later in the 20th century. Serafin, born not far from Venice, studied at the Milan Conservatory and made his conducting debut in Ferrara in 1898. He became the Principal Conductor at the La Scala in 1914. His main repertoire there came from the 19th century, but he also premiered operas by Richard Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dukas and several other contemporaries. From 1924 to 1934 he worked at the Metropolitan Opera where he staged several first American productions of what’s now considered the staples of the operatic repertoire, for example, Simon Boccanegra and Turandot. In 1934 he returned to […]
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