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Royal Opera House
2016-12-08 13:00:08
Verdi the radical: How the free-spirited composer shocked the opera world
Detail from Verdi and Naples censor, caricature by Melchiorre Delfico In 1840 Giuseppe Verdi was in a state of despair. His wife, Margherita Barezzi, and two children, Virginia and Icilio, had died within the space of two years. After initial success with his first opera, Oberto , his second, Un giorno di regno , had flopped: he was considering calling it quits on a career as a composer. Hope arrived, as the story goes, when he was inspired by the libretto for Nabucco and especially its now iconic chorus ‘Va pensiero’ . The famous soprano Giuseppina Strepponi created the role of Abigaille, and the opera was a great success at its 1842 premiere. Nabucco was to change Verdi’s life in more ways than one. Strepponi was a free spirit; she had been the mistress of tenor Napoleone Moriani, and the mother of three illegitimate children, none of whom survived. A […]
2016-11-19 11:30:23
The Barezzi Festival takes place in Parma aiming to attract top artists to play in its beautiful theatres situated in town and its province. The final night of the 2017 festival had maestro Philip Glass no less, at the majestic Teatro Regio, along with three splendid pianists, from Moscow, Anton Batagov, an Italian, Roberto Esposito and longterm Philip Glass favourite, Maki Namekawa from Japan, all there to perform Glass's celebrated '20 Etudes'.
2016-03-25 05:17:29
[…] heartbeats. A human to human connection that cannot be beat, measured in earthly mortal terms…. such is the possibility, such is the desired result. Striving now to secure sponsorship enough to offer partial scholarships, and depending on the success of our efforts, even total scholarships to many talented young voices. Money when it comes to art is vulgar to even think about, but we are forced to. In Busseto, living history of Verdi. At The Barezzi House where he won sponsorship and help from this wonderful man of the arts, The Teatro Verdi, St. Agata, where Verdi lived and loved and wrote and inspired a nation… The Villa Puccini as we offer our solidarity to Mrs. Simonetta Puccini who diligently and selflessly works to restore the final resting place and Villa of Puccini at Torre del Lago, where the piano sits against the wall of his sepulcher as music still […]
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