Ernesta Grisi News
Italian ballet dancer and opera singer
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Ernesta Grisi)
- mezzo-soprano
- Kingdom of Italy
- ballet dancer, opera singer
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] in London, but while the applause was liberal, the financial results were far from satisfactory. The performances given were three matinees at the Princess’ Theater, two concerts in Hanover square, two in Crosby Hall, and eight promenade concerts, together with numerous private entertainments which were often very enjoyable. The most memorable among these latter was a soiree given at the magnificent villa of the Messrs. Baring Brothers, where numerous celebrated operatic stars took part, including Grisi, Garcia, Alboni, Mario, and Tamburini. The invited guests were from the highest circle, and the new orchestra obtained a larger share of the applause. The Duke of Cambridge, himself an amateur on the violin, was particularly interested in this department of the orchestra, turning the leaves for the first violins, and calling the attention of the entire company to the performance of the orchestral pieces. Other prominent occasions wherein the Germanians took part seemed […]
2020-06-27 08:31:54
Renowned as a pedagogue & the Royal Academy of Music's first cello professor, there is a lot more to Alfredo Piatti: I chat to cellist Adrian Bradbury about rediscovering Piatti's forgotten operatic fantasies
[…] never heard it live as an audience member). And Adrian found that he learned a lot by hearing singers performing the music and understood that that is what Piatti and his contemporaries would have done. The great Italian tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini was a good friend of Piatti's and in fact Piatti knew all of the so-called 'Puritani Quartet', the four leading singers of their day who had premiered Bellini's I Puritani in 1835, Giulia Grisi, Antonio Tamburini, Luigi Lablache and Rubini. Autograph manuscript of Alfredo Piatti's Parafrasi sulla Barcarola del Marino Faliero ©️Annalisa Barzanò It has always bothered Adrian why the operatic fantasy form went out of fashion so quickly, by the early 20th century it was fast disappearing as a form. And Adrian does wonder whether the disappearance of the operas themselves during the 20th century and the way of singing them effectively […]
2018-10-28 09:50:23
Musical drama: Bellini's Norma with Helena Dix in the title role
[…] North in 2017 [see my review]). So we got occasional notes 'in alt' yet when singing with Helena Dix, Pritchard's voice successfully held its own in the lower part. Pritchard had a lovely way with the music, hearing her turn a fine phrase combining shape and tone was a real joy. The opening of 'Mira, O Norma' was spine-tingling, yet when combining with Helena Dix the two produced singing of real joy. As with Giulia Grisi, the first Adalgisa, you feel that Pritchard will inevitably move on to the title role eventually, and I look forward to hearing it.One of the advantages of Chelsea Opera Group's performances is that they provide a welcome opportunity to hear singers in roles that they have not yet otherwise had a chance to showcase properly in London. Christopher Turner is a tenor whom we have encountered in smaller roles, he was in Opera Rara's […]
2017-03-20 15:00:32
Seconda la commedia, sta cheto e lascia far
It’s been said that the final installment of the great trio of bel canto comedies is Don Pasquale, following Il barbiere di Siviglia and L’elisir d’amore. Although the work slipped out of the standard repertoire in the later half of the 20th century, there has been a distinct upswing, including the first performance at Wiener Staatsoper in 32 years in 2015 which we’ll sample this week. Michele Pertusi takes the lead, abetted by Valentina Nafornita, Juan Diego Flórez, and Alessio Arduini, under Jesús López-Cobos. After opening in Paris in January 1843, Don Pasquale reached La Scala later that year and by 1854 circled the globe with its Australian premiere. It is generally regarded as the high point of the 19th century opera buffa tradition and, in fact, marked its ending. In the role created by Giulia Grisi is Moldova native Valentina Nafornita, who won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the […]
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