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2021-01-15 08:24:34
Donizetti on the cusp: never a success in his lifetime, Opera Rara reveals much to enjoy in the composer's 1829 opera Il Paria
Donizetti Il Paria; Albina Shagimuratova, René Barbera, Misha Kiria, Marko Mimica, Britten Sinfonia, Sir Mark Elder; Opera Rara Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 January 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Despite its weak dramaturgy, there is music of richness and daring in an opera written a year before Donizetti's first big success12 January 1829 was a big day for Gaetano Donizetti. Aged 32, he was making his debut as Director of the Royal Theatres in Naples, a post previously held by Rossini (until 1822), with the premiere of Il Paria (something like his 29th opera). It wasn't Donizetti's first opera for Naples, but Il Paria would be the first one written as Director. Royal protocol ensured that the reaction to the first night was muted, but the opera only lasted for a few performances despite the starry cast (Adelaide Tosi, Giovanni Rubini and Luigi Lablache) and was never revived. […]
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
[…] 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 disappeared until the bel […]
2015-10-22 14:00:30
“And Mlle. Lablache was a very acceptable Marta”
On this day in 1883 the Metropolitan Opera House opened its inaugural season with Gounod’s Faust. ici Born on this day in 1809 composer Federico Ricci ici Born on this day in 1811 composer Franz Liszt ici Born on this day in 1859 conductor Carl Muck ici Born on this day in 1907 tenor Günther Treptow ici Born on this day in 1912 soprano Esther Réthy ici Happy 81st birthday bass-baritone Donald McIntyre ici Born on this day in 1946 soprano Elizabeth Connell ici Happy […]
2014-03-31 17:25:35
Kraus purposes
[…] opera I puritani, from Modena in 1962. The sound on these two CD’s is even worse than in Ali Baba, the orchestra is scrappy and some of the singing provincial, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Puritani is another opera by an Italian that had its premiere in Paris, this time at the Théâtre-Italien, in 1835, with a cast of four superstars, the soprano Giulia Grisi, the tenor Rubini, the baritone Tamburini and the bass Luigi Lablache. A libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli is based on a play “Round Heads and Cavaliers” which was in turn loosely based on a work of Walter Scott, which is perhaps why the full name of the opera, often found on old scores and libretti, is I Puritani di Scozia but the scene is given as “Plymouth” (that’s not in Scotland). Anyway, during the English Civil War,at this fort in Plymouth, heroine Elvira, daughter of […]
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