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A century before Maria Callas caught the world’s attention, there was another singer wielding immense power both on and off stage, Giuditta Pasta. George Hall tells the story of the Italian soprano
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2020-12-13 16:00:00
That Time Italian Futurists Declared War On Pasta
You see, Pasta wasn’t “virile” enough for these guys, the poets and artists of Italian Futurism. That’s right, “a heavy, bloated stomach does not encourage physical enthusiasm for a woman, nor favour the possibility of possessing her at any time.” – Open Culture
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2020-12-06 08:44:19
Putin’s money courier splashes $6.5 million on pedigree Italian violins
It is reported that the cellist Sergei Roldugin who was revealed in the Panama Papers to be a Putin launderer, has spent $6.5 million on four 18th century violins that are credited to Giuseppe Guarneri, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Tommaso Balestrieri and Gaetano Pasta. Roldugi bought them from Edwulstrad rmic ltd, a Swiss company belonging to Eduard […]
2020-10-26 14:53:57
Giuditta Pasta and Senesino, 2020
This Week in Classical Music: October 26, 2020. Singers of the past. Two Italian singers, Giuditta Pasta, possibly the greatest soprano of the first half of the 19th century, and a legendary contralto castrato and Handel’s favorite, Senesino, were born this week. Giuditta Pasta was born in Saronno, near Milan, on October 26th of 1797. She made her debut in Milan at the age of 19, and soon after appeared in Paris’s Théâtre Italien; she sung Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and several contemporary Italian operas. Her greatest Paris triumph was the role of Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello; she later repeated that success in London. She was Rossini’s favorite singer, making his operas Tancredi and Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra famous around Europe. Both Donizetti and Bellini wrote their greatest operas for Pasta: she premiered as Imogene in Il pirate, Amina in La sonnambula and Norma for Bellini; and for Donizetti she […]
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