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Italian composer (1779-1850)
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2015-07-19 03:04:00
[…] exponent. Donizetti wrote one-acters and full-evening "opere buffe", and the crown of his production is also the final flash of this sort of opera: "Don Pasquale". "Don Pasquale" is dated 1842 and the libretto by Giovanni Ruffini is based on "Ser Marcantonio" by Angelo Anelli, libretto for an opera by a now forgotten composer, Stefano Pavesi. As Gaetano Donizetti had written several "buffo libretti" for other operas he created, it is quite possible that he was co-author with Ruffini. It is a simple farce based on exaggeration: an old man (Pasquale) requires his nephew (Ernesto) to marry a girl he doesn´t want, for he is enamoured with Norina; he refuses; then, […]
2013-10-30 21:05:37
Stefano Pavesi is as forgotten as a popular composer can be, but in his long heyday , he went everywhere and knew everyone.
2012-07-28 20:18:44
Smiles on a summer night
[…] nothing like the prolonged gestations of Berlioz or Wagner, but suggestive of unusual deliberation on Donizetti’s part. In this, it might be said, Donizetti found one of the best possible outlets for his remarkable facility, as he had in La Fille du Régiment and La Favorite. Generally indifferent to the finer points of his libretto, yet hungry for the situations and confrontations that fired his genius, Donizetti looked to a libretto already used by Stefano Pavesi, and asked Giovanni Ruffini to hammer it into shape. The spectre that haunts Pasquale is that of the commedia dell’arte: Pasquale himself is a type of the old fool Pantalone, and his new name, from “Pasquin,” the much-abused fragmentary statue to which satirical verse used to be nailed, suggests that he is the deserving target of much abuse. His nephew Ernesto is the innocent Pierrot; Ernesto’s beloved Norina is the mercurial Columbine; and their […]
2011-12-31 00:37:00
DECEMBER 31 Today in classical music history
[…] Ginevra di Scozia (Mayr) Zon Zon (Gazzaniga) Sang in premiere of Zaira (Federici).1832 Death of Italian mezzo-soprano Adelaida Malanotte. Born 1785 in Verona. Debut 1806 Created Enrico in Elisabetta D'Inghilterra (Pavesi) Semiramide in Semiramide (Rossini) Sang in premiere of Alzira (Manfroce) 1837 Birth of American composer John R. SWENEY in West Chester, PA. d-Chester, PA 10 APR 1899. On Joyful Wing: A Book of Praise and Song.1842 FP of Albert Lortzing's opera Der Wildschütz 'The Poacher' at the Stadttheater in Leipzig. 1865 FP of Rimsky-Korsakov's Symphony No. 1, Balakirev conducting, in […]
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