Which composer wrote the operas Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Turandot?
"Paul Motian and Gary Peacock after Giacomo Puccini except as indicated"" Experiencing Tosca Experiencing Tosca is an album by the group Tethered Moon, comprising pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul Motian, recorded in late 2002 and released on the Winter & Winter label in 2004. The album features the groups interpretation of Giacomo Puccini's music for ""Tosca"" along with original compositions inspired by the opera. Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars, stating, ""The very idea that Tethered Moon's members could put a new spin on Tosca no less than 102 years after Puccini wrote it speaks well"
"Othalie Graham Othalie Graham is a Canadian American dramatic soprano, known for operatic roles such as Turandot in ""Turandot"", Tosca in ""Tosca"", Minnie in ""La fanciulla del West"", Aida in ""Aida"", Elektra in ""Elektra"" and Ariadne in ""Ariadne Auf Naxos"". Graham was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Her father, a Jamaican born Canadian, instilled in Graham a strong identification with Jamaican music and culture. When Graham was young, her father sparked her interest in opera by taking her to see a Leontyne Price recital. Her passion in opera grew while attending high school at the Etobicoke School of the Arts."
"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"
"Franco Alfano Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 in Posillipo, Naples – 27 October 1954 in Sanremo) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera ""Risurrezione"" (1904) and above all for having completed Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime. Alfano was born in Posillipo, Naples. He attended piano lessons given privately by Alessandro Longo, and harmony and composition respectively under Camillo de Nardis (1857–1951) and Paolo Serrao at the conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples. Later, after graduating, he pursued further composition studies with"
"being more in keeping with Puccini's evolving technique. See also List of operas by Franco Alfano. Operas Other compositions Notes Franco Alfano Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 in Posillipo, Naples – 27 October 1954 in Sanremo) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera ""Risurrezione"" (1904) and above all for having completed Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime. Alfano was born in Posillipo, Naples. He attended piano lessons given privately by Alessandro Longo, and harmony and composition respectively under Camillo de Nardis (1857–1951) and"
"dedicated himself to teaching. Amongst his pupils were Richard Tucker, Eleanor Steber, Astrid Varnay, and Léopold Simoneau. He died on February 6, 1954 in Manhattan, New York City, and was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, New York. Paul Althouse Paul Shearer Althouse (December 2, 1889 – February 6, 1954) was an American opera singer. He began his career as a lyric tenor with a robust Italianate sound, in roles like Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca, Lieutenant Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana. He later branched out into the dramatic tenor repertoire, finding success in portraying"
"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"
"Turandot (Busoni) Turandot is a 1917 opera with spoken dialogue and in two acts by Ferruccio Busoni. Busoni prepared his own libretto, in German, based on the play by Count Carlo Gozzi. The music for Busoni's opera is based on the incidental music, and the associated ""Turandot Suite"" (BV 248), which Busoni had written in 1905 for a production of Gozzi's play. The opera is often performed as part of a double bill with Busoni's earlier one-act opera ""Arlecchino"". Carlo Gozzi's play ""Turandot"" first appeared in 1762. It was originally written to be performed in the small theatre of San"
"Brandon Jovanovich Brandon Jovanovich is an American operatic tenor whose repertoire encompasses Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Britten, and from early Baroque to world premiere operas. He is most known for his passionate portrayals of Slavic, French and German operas. His signature roles include Don José in Bizet's ""Carmen"", B. F. Pinkerton in Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"", Cavaradossi in Puccini's ""Tosca"", and the title role in Wagner's ""Lohengrin"". The 2007 Richard Tucker Award winner keeps a demanding schedule that sees him performing in both concerts and operas through the world. Brandon Jovanovich is a native of Billings, Montana. He began in school choirs"
"publication. Luigi Illica Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers. His most famous opera libretti are those for ""La Bohème"", ""Tosca"", ""Madama Butterfly"" and ""Andrea Chénier"". Illica was born at Castell'Arquato. His personal life sometimes imitated his libretti. The reason he is always photographed with his head slightly turned is because he lost his right ear in a duel over a woman. When silent films based on Illica's operas were made,"
"Turandot Turandot (; ; ) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's 1801 adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text ""Turandot"" (1762) by Count Carlo Gozzi. The original story is based on one of the seven stories in the epic ""Haft Peykar"" (""The Seven Beauties""), a work of 12th-century Persian poet Nizami. Nizami aligned the seven stories with the"
"Maria Chiara Maria Chiara (born 24 November 1939) is an Italian lyric soprano. She was born in Oderzo and studied at the Venice Conservatory and in Turin with bass Antonio Cassinelli and soprano Maria Carbone. She made her debut in Venice in 1965, as Desdemona in ""Otello"". She frequently performed roles from the operas of Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi, including ""Aida"" (a La Scala production directed by Luca Ronconi is available on DVD), Violetta Valéry in ""La traviata"", and the title roles in ""Tosca"" and ""Madama Butterfly"". Although retired as a performer, she remains active in the training of"
"alla Scala in Milan, as Madama Butterfly, in 1925, and appeared there until 1937. Afterwards she began singing at all the major opera houses of Europe; the Monte Carlo Opera in 1927, the Royal Opera House in London, from 1928 to 1933, the Liceu in Barcelona and the Vienna State Opera in 1930, the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1931 to 1932, and the Paris Opéra in 1935. She also appeared in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. A great Puccini interpreter, especially as Madama Butterfly, she also sang ""Manon Lescaut"", ""La bohème"", ""Tosca"", and Liu in ""Turandot"", also Mascagni's"
"new singers. Maria Chiara Maria Chiara (born 24 November 1939) is an Italian lyric soprano. She was born in Oderzo and studied at the Venice Conservatory and in Turin with bass Antonio Cassinelli and soprano Maria Carbone. She made her debut in Venice in 1965, as Desdemona in ""Otello"". She frequently performed roles from the operas of Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi, including ""Aida"" (a La Scala production directed by Luca Ronconi is available on DVD), Violetta Valéry in ""La traviata"", and the title roles in ""Tosca"" and ""Madama Butterfly"". Although retired as a performer, she remains active in the"
"Luigi Illica Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers. His most famous opera libretti are those for ""La Bohème"", ""Tosca"", ""Madama Butterfly"" and ""Andrea Chénier"". Illica was born at Castell'Arquato. His personal life sometimes imitated his libretti. The reason he is always photographed with his head slightly turned is because he lost his right ear in a duel over a woman. When silent films based on Illica's operas were made, his"
"Because only three ""verismo"" works by Puccini continue to appear regularly on stage (the aforementioned ""Cavalleria rusticana"", ""Pagliacci"", and ""Andrea Chénier""), Puccini's contribution has had lasting significance to the genre. Both during his lifetime and in posterity, Puccini's success outstripped other Italian opera composers of his time, and he has been matched in this regard by only a handful of composers in the entire history of opera. Eleven of Puccini's operas are numbered among the 200 most-performed operas (worldwide, by composers of any nationality, as surveyed by Operabase). Three of his works (""La bohème"", ""Tosca"", and ""Madama Butterfly"") rank among"
"well as the existing ""bel canto"" operatic repertoire, with exemplary style and technical skill. Giraldoni was married to the well-known soprano and violinist Carolina Ferni. Their son, Eugenio Giraldoni (1870–1924), became a leading baritone like his father. In Rome in 1900, Eugenio created the role of Baron Scarpia in Puccini's ""Tosca"". Leone Giraldoni Leone Giraldoni (born 4 July 1824, Paris – died 19 September 1897, Moscow) was a celebrated Italian operatic baritone. He created the title roles of Gaetano Donizetti's ""Il duca d'Alba"" (1882) and Verdi's ""Simon Boccanegra"" (1857) as well as the role of Renato in Verdi's ""Un ballo"
"Cristina Gallardo-Domâs Cristina Gallardo-Domâs is a soprano, born in Santiago, Chile, who frequently performs in operas by Puccini. Gallardo-Domâs made her debut as Madama Butterfly in 1990 at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago and, three years later, began performing in opera houses in Europe, making her La Scala debut in 1993 in ""La Rondine"". Gallardo-Domâs' many Puccini performances include: ""Turandot"" and ""Madama Butterfly"" at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, and Royal Opera House; ""La bohème"" at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and Paris Opéra; ""Manon Lescaut"" at the Zurich Opera and Los Angeles Opera; ""Simon Boccanegra (by Verdi)"" at"
"conducted performances of ""Aida"" and ""La bohème"" at the Cincinnati Opera. In 1962, he led Herva Nelli in her Farewell, in ""Norma"", at the Brooklyn Opera Company. For the Toledo Opera he led productions of ""Rigoletto"" (1982) and ""Madama Butterfly"" (1983). Carlo Moresco Carlo Moresco (20 May 1905 - 3 May 1990) was an American conductor, composer, violinist, and stage director of Italian birth. He was one of the most important opera conductors in the city of Philadelphia during the 20th century, working for multiple opera companies in that city. He also held conducting posts with companies in Connecticut and"
"Farnace (opera) Farnace is an 18th-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček. It was composed to a libretto by the Italian poet Antonio Maria Lucchini that is best known from a setting by Antonio Vivaldi first produced at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice for the carnival operatic season of 1727. For a performance in the 1760s, it would only be expected that a libretto of such age would be abbreviated and altered to suit contemporary operatic taste; this libretto was unusually old, even older than all but one of the librettos by Metastasio that continued"
"Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (; 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, he is regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the ""Four Seasons"". Many of his compositions were written for the"
"""Tosca"" (2000), ""Macbeth"" (1997 & 2002), ""Falstaff"" (2003), ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" (2004), ""La traviata"" (2006), ""Il trovatore"" (2007), ""L’elisir d'amore"" (2009), and ""Madama Butterfly"" (2011). He has also appeared with all the other major British companies: English and Welsh National Operas, Opera North, Scottish Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. In Europe he has appeared at major houses such as the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Milan, the Opéra National de Paris, Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper, the Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Barcelona's Liceu, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Madrid's Teatro Real, Zurich Opera House (""Falstaff"", ""Otello""),"
"Lost operas by Claudio Monteverdi The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), in addition to a large output of church music and madrigals, wrote prolifically for the stage. His theatrical works were written between 1604 and 1643 and included ten operas, of which three—""L'Orfeo"" (1607), ""Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria"" (1640) and ""L'incoronazione di Poppea"" (1643)—have survived with their music and librettos intact. In the case of the other seven operas, the music has disappeared almost entirely, although some of the librettos exist. The loss of these works, written during a critical period of early opera history, has been much regretted"
"arts and entertainment industry. She previously was the first-place winner of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition in the Wagner Division; the first-place winner of the Joyce Dutka Competition; a recipient of a Sullivan Foundation Grant; a first-place winner in the Wagner Division of the Liederkranz Competition, winner of the Jean Chalmers prize in the Canadian Music Competition, winner of the Edward Johnson Competition, and first place recipient of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques Competition. Othalie Graham Othalie Graham is a Canadian American dramatic soprano, known for operatic roles such as Turandot in ""Turandot"", Tosca in ""Tosca"", Minnie in ""La fanciulla"
"La Tosca La Tosca is a five-act drama by the 19th-century French playwright Victorien Sardou. It was first performed on 24 November 1887 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Despite negative reviews from the Paris critics at the opening night, it became one of Sardou's most successful plays and was toured by Bernhardt throughout the world in the years following its premiere. The play itself is no longer performed, but its operatic adaptation, Giacomo Puccini's ""Tosca"", has achieved enduring popularity. There have been several other adaptations of the play including"
"Tosca Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, ""La Tosca"", is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some"
"Alessandra Marc Alessandra Marc (born July 29, 1957) is an American dramatic soprano who has appeared at many of the world's opera houses and orchestras. Marc is particularly known for her interpretations of the works of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, music of the Second Viennese School, and the title role in Puccini's ""Turandot"". Alessandra Marc was born with the name Judith Borden in Berlin, Germany to a German mother and a Polish-born father who worked for the United States Army Intelligence. Marc spent much of her childhood traveling around the world as an ""army brat"". Her parents ultimately"
"Alessandra Marc Alessandra Marc (born July 29, 1957) is an American dramatic soprano who has appeared at many of the world's opera houses and orchestras. Marc is particularly known for her interpretations of the works of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, music of the Second Viennese School, and the title role in Puccini's ""Turandot"". Alessandra Marc was born with the name Judith Borden in Berlin, Germany to a German mother and a Polish-born father who worked for the United States Army Intelligence. Marc spent much of her childhood traveling around the world as an ""army brat"". Her parents ultimately"
"Giuseppe Maria Orlandini Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (4 April 167624 October 1760) was an Italian baroque composer particularly known for his more than 40 operas and intermezzos. Highly regarded by music historians of his day like Francesco Saverio Quadrio, Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Charles Burney, Orlandini, along with Vivaldi, is considered one of the major creators of the new style of opera that dominated the second decade of the 18th century. Born in Florence, Orlandini began working as an opera composer in his late twenties for Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici. His first opera, ""Artaserse"", premiered in Livorno in 1706. A"
"interview was reissued in the 1960s and can be heard on CD. The asterisk (*) indicates that Zenatello made commercial recordings of excerpts of these operas (for the Fonotipia company for all, and also for G&T for ""Siberia"".) Giovanni Zenatello Giovanni Zenatello (22 February 1876 – 11 February 1949) was an Italian opera singer. Born in Verona, he enjoyed an international career as a dramatic tenor of the first rank. Otello became his most famous operatic role but he sang a wide repertoire. In 1904, he created the part of Pinkerton in ""Madama Butterfly"". Zenatello showed musical promise from a"
"Joan Carden Joan Carden AO OBE (born 9 October 1937) is an Australian operatic soprano. She has been described as ""a worthy successor to Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland"" and was sometimes known as ""the other Joan"" (a reference to Sutherland and Dame Joan Hammond) or ""The People's Diva"". She was a Principal Soprano with Opera Australia for 32 years, and was particularly associated with the title roles of Giacomo Puccini's ""Tosca"" and ""Madama Butterfly"". However, she sang over 50 other roles, from the 18th century, including virtually all the Mozart heroines, through to works by contemporary composers."
"there were Aida, Amelia in Verdi's ""Un ballo in maschera"", Marta in Eugen d'Albert's ""Tiefland"", Myrtocle in d'Albert's ""Die toten Augen"", Rachel in ""La Juive"", Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's ""Cavalleria rusticana"", Senta in ""The Flying Dutchman"", Valentine, and the title roles in Georges Bizet's ""Carmen"" and Puccini's ""Tosca"". She was committed again to the Berlin State Opera from 1924-1926 where she was heard in the title role of Puccini's ""Turandot"" for the work's Berlin premiere in 1926 under the baton of Bruno Walter. She then returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin where she was active until her retirement from the"
"float:left;"">Pass me the colors... Concealed harmony of contrasting beauties! Floria, my ardent lover, is dark haired. And you, unknown beauty, crowned with blond hair, You have blue eyes, Tosca has black eyes! Art, in its mysterious way, blends the contrasting beauties together... But while I'm painting her, My only thought, My only thought is of you, Tosca, it is of you!</poem> Recondita armonia ""Recondita Armonia"" is the first romanza in the opera ""Tosca"" (1900) by Giacomo Puccini. It is sung by the painter Mario Cavaradossi when comparing his love, Tosca, to a portrait of Mary Magdalene that he is painting."