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2024-02-25 11:00:02
On this day in 1948 tenor Giuseppe di Stefano made his Metropolitan Opera debut at the Duke of Mantua
2023-12-15 08:34:00
A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
[…] and which celebrates the rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees. The concert did not directly reference Hanuakkah but instead brought out themes celebrated in the festival. One of the features of the programme was a compare and contrast element as Rossi's psalm settings were paired with settings of the same text by his contemporaries.Salomone Rossi (c.1570-c.1628) is a fascinating figure. A talented violinist and composer, he worked at the court of the Duke of Mantua from the late 16th century until his death and was evidently highly regarded (including being accorded privileges that most Jews in Mantua were not). This means that he and Monteverdi were colleagues and that Rossi, besides playing in court entertainments and such, almost certainly took part in the premiere of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. Rossi's own published music was largely dances and madrigals.Title page of the first edition of Rossi's Hashirim asher leSholomo(Venice: Pietro e Lorenzo […]
2023-11-20 00:56:00
San Francisco Opera 2024 Adler Fellows; Adler Concert
[…] from Il Trovatore (Giuseppe Verdi)Nikola Printz, Inez • Mikayla Sager, Leonora "Amor ti vieta" from Fedora (Umberto Giordano)Edward Graves, Count Loris "Ch'il bel sogno di Doretta" from La Rondine (Giacomo Puccini)Olivia Smith, Magda "Riez, allez" from Don Quichotte (Jules Massenet)Jongwon Han, Sancho "Sull'aria" from Le Nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)Olivia Smith, Countess Almaviva • Arianna Rodriguez, Susanna "I was a woman" from prisoner of the state (David Lang)Nikola Printz, the Assistant "Sometimes th’ pain of missin' him" from Cold Sassy Tree (Carlisle Floyd)Victor Cardamone, Will Tweedy "Un dì, se ben rammentomi" from Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)Edward Graves, the Duke of Mantua • Nikola Printz, Maddalena • Arianna Rodriguez, Gilda • Jongwon Han, Rigoletto "Scostatevi ... il Re giunge … Fin dall'età più tenera ... Salirà d'Inghilterra" from Anna Bolena (Gaetano Donizetti)Jongwon Han, Enrico • Mikayla Sager, Anna Bolena • Victor Cardamone, Percy • Edward Graves, Hervey "Giunse alfin il momento … Deh, vieni non tardar" from Le Nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)Arianna Rodriguez, Susanna "Let me look around once more … To leave, to break" from Vanessa (Samuel Barber)Olivia Smith, Vanessa • Edward Graves, Anatol • Nikola Printz, Erika • Gabriella Beteag, […]
2023-09-04 14:58:48
Jacopo Peri, part II, 2023
[…] Caccini rewrote the parts sung by his musicians, and Cavalieri staged the opera’s production (that was not enough for Cavalieri: he expected to be put in charge of all the festivities, which didn’t happen; disappointed, he left Florence for good. We recently mentioned this episode while writing about Cavalieri). In the 1600s, while residing in Florence and continuing to compose for the Medici court, Peri established a close relationship with Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. He wrote two operas for the Mantuan court, neither of which were performed, and many songs and instrumental pieces, the majority of which are now lost. Later in his life, he worked mostly in collaboration with other composers, a practice quite unusual for our time. He wrote two operas with Marco da Gagliano, the second, La Flora, for the occasion of the election of Ferdinand II as the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. […]
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