"retire, should he have wished to do so. He had reached a stage where he could develop his operas as he wished, rather than be dependent on commissions from third parties. ""Il trovatore"" was in fact the first opera he wrote without a specific commission (apart from ""Oberto""). At around the same time he began to consider creating an opera from Shakespeare's ""King Lear"". After first (1850) seeking a libretto from Cammarano (which never appeared), Verdi later (1857) commissioned one from Antonio Somma, but this proved intractable, and no music was ever written. Verdi began work on ""Il trovatore"" after"
"L'avaro (Anfossi) L'avaro (""The Miser""), is an opera (""dramma giocoso"") in three acts composed by Pasquale Anfossi. The libretto by Giovanni Bertati is based on Molière's 17th-century comedy ""The Miser"". Considered one of Anfossi's best operas, it premiered at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice in the autumn season of 1775 and was subsequently performed throughout Italy and in other European cities. Anfossi was a prolific composer. ""L'avaro"" was the 25th of his 70 or more operas and one of the three which he had composed for the 1775 season at Venice's Teatro San Moisè. His librettist Giovanni Bertati was"
"play, was set by Giacomo Cordella and premiered in 1814 at the Teatro de' Fiorentini, Naples. L'avaro (Anfossi) L'avaro (""The Miser""), is an opera (""dramma giocoso"") in three acts composed by Pasquale Anfossi. The libretto by Giovanni Bertati is based on Molière's 17th-century comedy ""The Miser"". Considered one of Anfossi's best operas, it premiered at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice in the autumn season of 1775 and was subsequently performed throughout Italy and in other European cities. Anfossi was a prolific composer. ""L'avaro"" was the 25th of his 70 or more operas and one of the three which he"
"and Sherrill Milnes. Domingo sang the tenor role of Carlo on that recording and the baritone role of Giacomo in a live performance recorded in 2013 with Anna Netrebko. Notes Cited sources Other sources Giovanna d'Arco Giovanna d'Arco (""Joan of Arc"") is an operatic ""dramma lirico"" with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, who had prepared the libretti for ""Nabucco"" and ""I Lombardi"". It is Verdi's seventh opera. The work partly reflects the story of Joan of Arc and appears to be loosely based on the play ""Die Jungfrau von"
"di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Additional appearances have included Odabella in ""Attila"" with Sarasota Opera; the title role of Aida for the inaugural performance of the Istanbul International Opera Festival; Leonora in ""Il Trovatore"" with Utah Festival Opera; the title role in ""Tosca"" with Festival Opera; and the title role in ""Elektra"" at Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts. In the Wagnerian repertoire, Ms. Graham’s notable roles also include Senta in ""Der Fliegender Holländer"", Brünnhilde and Sieglinde in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and Elisabeth in ""Tannhäuser"". Other concert engagements include a New York recital debut with the Liederkranz Society; Isolde in ""Tristan und"
"such as ""Nabucco"" by Giuseppe Verdi in 1842, ""La Gioconda"" by Amilcare Ponchielli, ""Madama Butterfly"" by Giacomo Puccini in 1904, ""Turandot"" by Puccini in 1926, and more recently ""Teneke"", by Fabio Vacchi in 2007. Other major theatres in Milan include the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Teatro Dal Verme, Teatro Lirico and formerly the Teatro Regio Ducal. The city is also the seat of a renowned symphony orchestra and musical conservatory, and has been, throughout history, a major centre for musical composition: numerous famous composers and musicians such as Gioseppe Caimo, Simon Boyleau, Hoste da Reggio, Verdi, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Paolo Cherici and"
"by Giuseppe Verdi in 1842, ""La Gioconda"" by Amilcare Ponchielli, ""Madama Butterfly"" by Giacomo Puccini in 1904, ""Turandot"" by Giacomo Puccini in 1926, and more recently ""Teneke"", by Fabio Vacchi in 2007, to name but a few. Other major theatres in Milan include the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Teatro Dal Verme, Teatro Lirico (Milan) and the Teatro Regio Ducal. The city also has a renownded symphony orchestra and musical conservatory, and has been, throughout history, a major centre for musical composition: numerous famous composers and musicians such as Gioseppe Caimo, Simon Boyleau, Hoste da Reggio, Verdi, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Paolo Cherici and"
"and extracts include work by Verdi (in particular ""Macbeth"", ""La traviata"", "" Il trovatore"" and ""Rigoletto""), Gaetano Donizetti's ""L'elisir d'amore"", Georges Bizet's ""Les pêcheurs de perles"", and Antônio Carlos Gomes's ""Salvator Rosa"" sung by Caruso. The romanza ""Una furtiva lagrima"" from ""L'elisir d'amore"" is featured repeatedly, including during the opening credits. The Caruso arias are supplemented by diegetic music from contemporary performances that the characters attend over the course of the film. There are scenes at the Royal Opera House and elsewhere performed by opera singers (scenes from ""La traviata"" performed by Janis Kelly and Alan Oke, from ""Rigoletto"" performed"
"One of the company's longest standing initiatives is the Verdi Cycle, an effort—which began in 1989—to perform all of the works of Giuseppe Verdi, including every one of his operas (as well as all alternative versions), all his orchestral and chamber music, as well as the ""Requiem"". In recent years, the Verdi Cycle operas have included ""I due Foscari"", ""Giovanna d'Arco"", ""I Lombardi"" and ""Otello"". In 2009, the company staged performances of the composer's ""Don Carlo"" in the four-act version of 1884 (the ""La Scala"" version) in French. At the time, this was the largest opera ever presented by the"
"major choral work composed since the compilation of Mozart's Requiem'. After Gioachino Rossini's death in 1868, Verdi suggested that a number of Italian composers collaborate on a ""Requiem"" in Rossini's honor. He began the effort by submitting the concluding movement, the ""Libera me"". During the next year a ""Messa per Rossini"" was compiled by Verdi and twelve other famous Italian composers of the time. The premiere was scheduled for 13 November 1869, the first anniversary of Rossini's death. However, on 4 November, nine days before the premiere, the organising committee abandoned it. Verdi blamed this on the scheduled conductor, Angelo"
"Rondine), Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Ponchielli's ""Gioconda"" (La Gioconda), and Boito's ""Margareta/ Elena"" (Mefistofele) to Tchaikovsky's ""Lisa"" (The Queen of Spades) and Richard Wagner's ""Senta"" (The Flying Dutchman). It contains twelve Verdi-roles: La Traviata, ""Desdemona"" (Otello), Aida, ""Leonora"" (Il Trovatore and La forza del destino), ""Elisabetta"" (Don Carlo), ""Elena"" (I vespri siciliani), ""Amelia"" (Simon Boccanegra), ""Elvira"" (Ernani), ""Lady Macbeth"", ""Abigaille"" (Nabucco), ""Odabella"" (Attila) as well as the Requiem. A central part for her is Bellini's Norma; she has appeared in this role among others at Vienna Volksoper, at the Regio of Turin, in Montreal, Baltimore, Detroit, Denver, Washington, D.C. and at"
"conducted by Gaetano Merola, the operetta starred Trentini as Nina, Craig Campbell as Jack Travers, Irene Cassini as Antonio Columbo, Vera De Rosa as Sybil Vandare, Sammy Lee (choreographer)|Sammy Lee as Pietro, Audrey Maple as Geraldine Vandare, Ruby Norton as Suzette, Katherine Stewart as Mrs. Oglesby Vandare, Melville Stewart as John Thurston, Henry Vogel as Herr Franz, and George Williams as Correlli. The 1937 MGM film version of the show, starring Jeanette MacDonald, added the song ""The Donkey Serenade"". After the film's release, this song has usually been added to revivals. In 1943 at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera,"
"(1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas ""Otello"" (1887) and ""Falstaff"" (1893). His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his 'middle period': ""Rigoletto, Il trovatore"" and ""La traviata"", and the 2013 bicentenary of his birth was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances. Verdi, the first child of Carlo Giuseppe Verdi (1785–1867) and Luigia Uttini (1787–1851), was born at their home in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Département Taro and within the borders of the First French Empire following the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza in 1808."
"roles included Lt. Pinkerton in Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"", Pollione in Bellini's ""Norma"", Cassio in Verdi's ""Otello"", Canio in Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"", Ismaele in Verdi's ""Nabucco"", Alfredo in Verdi's ""La traviata"", Don Jose in Bizet's ""Carmen"", Manrico in Verdi's ""Il trovatore"", and Avito in Montemezzi's ""L'amore dei tre re"". Fredericks started the annual Christmas Carolfest on the Music Pier in Ocean City, New Jersey, in the mid-1970s and directed it for several years until his death. Walter Fredericks Walter Fredericks (1916–2000) was an American operatic tenor and concert singer active from the late 1940s until at least the 1980s. A native of"
"Brahms's ""Ein deutsches Requiem"", Rossini's Stabat Mater, Stravinsky's ""Oedipus Rex"" & ""Symphony of Psalms"", Tippett's ""A Child of Our Time"" and Verdi's Requiem. The Chorus has also taken part in concert performances and commercial recordings of operas including Beethoven's ""Fidelio"", Berlioz's ""Les Troyens"" and ""Benvenuto Cellini"", Bernstein's ""Candide"", Britten's ""Peter Grimes"" and ""Billy Budd"", Verdi's ""Rigoletto"", ""Falstaff"" and ""Otello"", Wagner's ""Götterdämmerung"" and Richard Strauss's ""Elektra"". The London Symphony Chorus's discography consists of over 140 recordings, and many of these recordings feature collaborations with the London Symphony Orchestra. Since 2000 the LSC has taken part in productions for the orchestra's new"
"include Abigail in ""Nabucco"", Amelia in Verdi's ""Un ballo in maschera"", Elvira in Bellini's ""I puritani"", Hélène in Verdi's ""Jérusalem"", Julia in Gaspare Spontini's ""La vestale"", Lady Macbeth in Verdi's ""Macbeth"", Leonora in Verdi's ""Il trovatore"", Leonora in Verdi's ""La forza del destino"", Madame Herz in Mozart's ""Der Schauspieldirektor"", Minnie in Puccini's ""La fanciulla del West"", Odabella in Verdi's ""Attila"", Paolina in Gaetano Donizetti's ""Poliuto"", Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's ""Cavalleria Rusticana"", Viclinda in Verdi's ""I Lombardi alla prima crociata"", and the title roles in Donizetti's ""Anna Bolena"", Amilcare Ponchielli's ""La Gioconda"", Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", Luigi Cherubini's ""Médée"", Puccini's ""Suor"
"– opera composed for her voice and interpreted in prima assoluta at Teatro dell’Opera of Rome on 27 November 1894; Giuseppe Verdi ""Aida"" (Aida); Giuseppe Verdi ""Un ballo in maschera"" (Amelia); Giuseppe Verdi ""Otello"" (Desdemona); Giuseppe Verdi ""Rigoletto"" (Gilda); Giuseppe Verdi ""Simon Boccanegra"" (Amelia-Maria) – première for Teatro dell’Opera of Rome on 17 May 1892; Giuseppe Verdi ""La Traviata"" (Violetta Valery); Giuseppe Verdi ""Il Trovatore"" (Leonora); Richard Wagner ""Die Meistersinger"" (Eva); Richard Wagner ""Lohengrin"" (Elsa); Richard Wagner ""Tannhäuser"" (Elisabeth) – première for Italy at Teatro alla Scala of Milan on 29 December 1891 and for Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires"
"Josip Kasman)—and, from a younger generation of verismo opera-influenced baritones, Titta Ruffo, Riccardo Stracciari, Pasquale Amato, Giuseppe De Luca, Eugenio Giraldoni, Mario Sammarco, Domenico Viglione-Borghesi and the promising newcomer Carlo Galeffi. According to the critic Michael Scott, author of ""The Record of Singing"", Ancona's smooth, fluent and refined method of singing pre-dated the verismo movement. His style and technique were particularly well suited to the operas of Verdi, and to the bel canto works composed by Bellini and Donizetti (such as ""I Puritani"", ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" and ""La favorite""). Ancona's repertoire of Verdi parts included Germont, Di Luna, Rigoletto, Amonasro"
"their full vocal demands. This philosophy has enabled many singers to go on to work for Opera Houses abroad without too much difficulty. The company has also staged productions of John Blow's ""Venus and Adonis"" (2004); Henry Purcell's ""Dido and Aeneas"" (2005); Mozart's ""Die Zauberflöte"" (2006); Bizet's ""Carmen"" (2007); Britten's ""Peter Grimes"" (2008); Mozart's ""Le Nozze di Figaro"" (2009); Verdi's ""Rigoletto"" (2010); Puccini's ""La Bohème"" (2011); Verdi's ""La Traviata"" (2012); Britten's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (2013) and a reprise of Mozart's"" Die Zauberflöte"" (2014). The 2015 production will be Johann Strauss II's ""Die Fledermaus"" with a guest conductor. Distinguished singers"
"to be buried with the score. Quattro pezzi sacri The Quattro pezzi sacri (, ""Four Sacred Pieces"") are choral works by Giuseppe Verdi. Written separately during the last decades of the composer's life and with different origins and purposes, they were nevertheless published together in 1898 by Casa Ricordi. They are often performed as a cycle, not in chronological sequence of their composition, but in the sequence used in the Ricordi publication: They were first performed together (without the ""Ave Maria"") in a concert by the Paris Opera on April 7, 1898. After Verdi finished his opera ""Aida"" and in"
"based on the Byron poem of 1814, ""The Corsair"". Verdi accepted Lumley's proposal and production was scheduled for the world premiere of the new opera in the summer of 1846. Unfortunately, Verdi's health deteriorated and the premiere of the new work had to be postponed until 1847. During his period of recovery, one of Verdi's close friends, Andrea Maffei, a distinguished poet who had translated both Shakespeare and Schiller into Italian, suggested that ""Macbeth"" and Schiller's ""Die Räuber"" might provide suitable operatic subjects. With an offer to present a new opera in Florence, Verdi had the choice of two locations,"
"at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Other roles include Guido di Monforte (Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani), Iago (Verdi's Otello), Germont (Verdi's La Traviata), Stankar (Verdi's Stiffelio), Grand Prêtre (Saint-Saёns's Samson et Dalila), Valentin (Gounod's ""Faust"") and Barnaba (Ponchielli's La Gioconda). He is married to the Lieder singer and singing teacher, Christina Giannakopoulou. Dimitri Platanias Dimitri Platanias (born 4 December 1970) is a Greek baritone who has had an active international career since 2007, excelling particularly in the roles of Verdi and the Italian Verismo. Born in Kalamata, he first studied classical guitar and singing at the Kalamata Municipal Conservatory"
"2005: Giulini's most notable opera recordings include the 1959 Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus versions of Mozart's operas ""The Marriage of Figaro"" and ""Don Giovanni"" for EMI, as well as his live 1955 recording of Verdi's ""La traviata"" with Maria Callas. He also made recordings of Verdi's ""Requiem"" and the ""Four Sacred Pieces"", which were highly praised. Admired orchestral records include Debussy's ""La mer"" and ""Nocturnes"", Dvořák's 9th Symphony and Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Mussorgsky's ""Pictures at an Exhibition"", Brahms's 4th Symphony and Mahler's 1st and 9th symphonies with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's 3rd and 5th Symphonies,"
"""Giovanna d'Arco"" (1845), Federico Ricci's ""Estella di Murcia"" (1846), and Domenico Ronzani's ""Salvator Rosa"" (1854). At La Scala Cavallini also conducted performances of Vincenzo Bellini's ""La sonnambula"" (1834), Donizetti's ""L'elisir d'amore"" (1834), Bellini's ""I puritani"" (1835), Daniel Auber's ""La muette de Portici"" (1838), Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" (1839), Donizetti's ""La fille du régiment"" (1840), Donizetti's ""Don Pasquale"" (1843), Donizetti's ""Linda di Chamounix"" (1844), Verdi's ""Ernani"" (1844), Verdi's ""Attila"" (1846), Verdi's ""Jérusalem"" (1850), Verdi's ""Rigoletto"" (1853), Verdi's ""Il trovatore"" (1853), Giacomo Meyerbeer's ""Les Huguenots"" (1854), Donizetti's ""Maria di Rohan"" (1855), Gioachino Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" (1855), Errico Petrella's ""Marco Visconti"""
"Giovanna d'Arco Giovanna d'Arco (""Joan of Arc"") is an operatic ""dramma lirico"" with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, who had prepared the libretti for ""Nabucco"" and ""I Lombardi"". It is Verdi's seventh opera. The work partly reflects the story of Joan of Arc and appears to be loosely based on the play ""Die Jungfrau von Orleans"" by Friedrich von Schiller. Verdi wrote the music during the autumn and winter of 1844/45 and the opera had its first performance at Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 15 February 1845. By"
"the Teatro Verdi opera company in Salerno, Italy. Oren conducts at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan in New York, the Arena in Verona, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bastille in Paris and the opera houses of Rome, Trieste, Genoa, Florence, Parma, Turin, Venice, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Tokyo, Huston, Washington and many others. He also leads many symphonic concerts with orchestras such as the Santa Cecilia in Rome and the orchestras of Florence, Cologne, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and the Berlin Philharmonic. His opera repertoire includes many Verdi operas, including Aida, Simon Boccanegra, La Traviata, Rigoletto and Nabucco; Puccini operas"
"the ""pasticcio"" was broadcast live into movie theaters across the world as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series. In late 2012, Virgin Classics released this broadcast version on DVD. The Met revived ""The Enchanted Island"" two seasons later. Daniels, de Niese, Pisaroni, and Domingo revived their roles from the premiere. Susan Graham assumed the role of Sycorax from DiDonato. Overture George Frideric Handel: Alcina, HWV 34 Act I 1. “My Ariel"" (Prospero, Ariel) – “Ah, if you would earn your freedom” (Prospero) Antonio Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, cantata, RV 684, “Ah, ch’infelice sempre” 2. “My master, generous"
"(2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bariton, bass) and a mixed chorus (SATB). The orchestra consists of piccolo, flutes, oboes, clarinets (in B), bassoons; trumpets (in F), trombone (in F), bass trombone (ophicleide); harp; timpani, gran cassa, piatti; strings. The opera is divided in Italian manner into separate musical numbers: recitativos, arias, duets, quartets, choruses and intermezzi. La Croce d'oro La croce d’oro (Italian for ""The Golden Cross"") is an opera in 3 acts by Henrique Oswald to an Italian libretto. It was composed in 1872. No performances of it are registered. The work remains unpublished. ""The Golden Cross"" was the first"
"(1925), Richard Strauss's ""Ariadne auf Naxos"" (1912), and ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" (1918), while ""an excellent example of its beauty when well employed"", is the Silver Rose scene in his ""Der Rosenkavalier"" (1911), Ferruccio Busoni's ""Arlecchino"" (1917) and ""Doktor Faust"" (1925), Carl Orff's ""Carmina Burana"" (1936) and ""Der Mond"" (1939), Gian Carlo Menotti's ""Amelia Goes to the Ball"" (1937), Benjamin Britten's ""The Turn of the Screw"" (1954) and ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1960), Conrad Susa's ""Transformations"" (1973), and Philip Glass' ""Akhnaten"" (1984). The keyboard glockenspiel part in Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"" is nowadays often played by a celesta. Since Earl"
"to ""Otello"", an Italian grand opera in four acts that was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 5 February 1887. It was Verdi's second to last opera (followed by another Shakespeare adaptation, ""Falstaff"") and is considered by many his greatest. The popular opera attracts world class singers and is found in the repertoire of prominent opera houses. Verdi and his librettist dispensed with the first act of the play. Franco Zeffirelli's 1986 film version of Verdi's opera starring Plácido Domingo as Othello was nominated for the BAFTA for foreign language film. However, it did not win the"
"the gypsy chorus of act 2, ballet music for opera rarely connecting with the themes of the work. Several other revisions focused on Azucena's music, including an extended version of the finale of act 4, to accommodate the role's singer Adelaide Borghi-Mamo. Some of these changes have even been used in modern performances in Italian. Rarely given in French, it was presented as part of the 1998 Festival della Valle d'Itria and in 2002 ""Le trouvère"" appeared as part of the Sarasota Opera's ""Verdi Cycle"" of all the composer's work. ""Scene 1: The guard room in the castle of Luna"
"Anna D'Angeri Anna D'Angeri (Angermayer de Redenburg) (14 April 1853 – 14 December 1907) was an Austrian-born opera singer, who made Italy her adopted country and Italianized her surname. She had a brief (1873–1881) but eminent career singing leading soprano roles at the Vienna Hofoper and La Scala, Milan. Particularly admired by Verdi, she sang the role of Amelia in the premiere of the revised version of his ""Simon Boccanegra"". She also sang the roles of Ortrud and Venus in the London premiere of Wagner's ""Lohengrin"" and ""Tannhäuser"" and created the roles of Jefte in Ponchielli's ""Il figliuol prodigo"" and"
"to have conducted every available work by Giuseppe Verdi. The season culminated in a Verdi Festival Week, March 15–20, which included performances of the final two Verdi operas to be performed as part of the cycle, ""La battaglia di Legnano"" and ""Aida"", two concerts dedicated to the music of Verdi, a two-day International Verdi Conference in partnership with the American Institute for Verdi Studies, and a 28-year retrospective exhibit on the Verdi Cycle. Distinguished guests included two of Giuseppe Verdi's great, great grandchildren, Maria Mercedes Carrara Verdi and Angiolo Carrara Verdi, Gloria Marina Bellelli, Consul General of Italy, and Enzo"