'Gilda' is the daughter of which eponymous character in a Verdi opera?
"Gilda Varesi Gilda Varesi (September 28, 1887 — May 27, 1965), also known as Gilda Varesi Archibald, was an Italian-born actress and playwright. Gilda Varesi was born in Milan, and adopted as the daughter of opera singer Elena Boccabadati Varesi. Her maternal grandparents Felice Varesi and Cecilia Boccabadati Gazzudo were also opera singers. Luigia Boccabadati was Gilda's great-grandmother. Gilda Varesi, who was named for a character in Verdi's ""Rigoletto"", moved to Chicago as a child, with her family. Varesi started on stage in Chicago, with the Ben Greet Players, before joining Helena Modjeska's troupe, then working with Minnie Maddern Fiske"
"""I corsari"" and Coccia's ""Giovanna II"". Teresa Brambilla Teresa Brambilla (23 October 1813 – 15 July 1895) was a celebrated Italian soprano most remembered today for having created the role of Gilda in Verdi's opera, ""Rigoletto"". During a career that spanned 20 years, she sang throughout Italy and in other European cities, including Paris, Barcelona and Odessa. Teresa Brambilla was born in Cassano d'Adda to a musical family. Teresa was one of five sisters who all became opera singers. Her elder sister, Marietta (1807–1875) was a contralto who specialised in ""travesti"" roles and sang in the premieres of several of"
"Teresa Brambilla Teresa Brambilla (23 October 1813 – 15 July 1895) was a celebrated Italian soprano most remembered today for having created the role of Gilda in Verdi's opera, ""Rigoletto"". During a career that spanned 20 years, she sang throughout Italy and in other European cities, including Paris, Barcelona and Odessa. Teresa Brambilla was born in Cassano d'Adda to a musical family. Teresa was one of five sisters who all became opera singers. Her elder sister, Marietta (1807–1875) was a contralto who specialised in ""travesti"" roles and sang in the premieres of several of Donizetti's operas. Her younger sister, Giuseppina"
"the daughter of Gerolamo and Angela (""née"" Columbo) Brambilla. She was the eldest of five sisters, all of whom became opera singers. Teresa (1813–1895) was a soprano who created the role of Gilda in ""Rigoletto"". Giuseppina sang both contralto and soprano roles and was married to the tenor Corrado Miraglia. Both had very prominent careers. Annetta (1812–?) and Lauretta (1823-1881) were both sopranos who had lesser careers, appearing primarily in provincial Italian opera houses. Marietta Brambilla studied at the Milan Conservatory and made her stage debut in 1827 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London as Arsace in Rossini's ""Semiramide"". She"
"Gilda dalla Rizza Gilda Dalla Rizza (12 October 18925 July 1975) was an important Italian soprano. Born in Verona, she made her operatic debut in Bologna (the Teatro Verdi) in 1912, as Charlotte in ""Werther"". Especially acclaimed in the verismo repertory, she was regarded as being Giacomo Puccini's favorite soprano, creating Magda in his ""La rondine"" (1917). Although he composed the part of Minnie in ""La fanciulla del West"" for another soprano, when Puccini saw Dalla Rizza in the part, he said, ""Behold, at last I have seen ""my"" Fanciulla"". She also gave the first European performances of his ""Suor"
"Nicolina Giordani Nicolina Giordani (1740 – after 1775), also known by the stage name La Signora Spiletta or La Spiletta, was an Italian opera singer. A member of the Giordanis family from Naples, she was the daughter of Antonia and Giuseppe Giordani, librettist and composer, and the sister of Francesco and Marina, both singers, and Tommaso, a composer and instrumentalist. She performed in opera productions with her family's company in Northern Italy, Germany, Holland and France, before settling in London, where she was active between 1753 and 1774. She became known by her stage name after a popular performance as"
"in the lives of Adalbert of Italy, his mother Willa of Tuscany (called ""Gismonda"" in the opera), Otto II, and the Byzantine Princess Theophanu, who became the wife of Otto II in a state marriage intended to form an alliance between the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires. The German-born Handel, after spending some of his early career composing operas and other pieces in Italy, settled in London, where in 1711 he had brought Italian opera for the first time with his opera ""Rinaldo"". A tremendous success, ""Rinaldo"" created a craze in London for Italian opera seria, a form focused overwhelmingly"
"role for the premiere. Later, when Medea Figner was to be replaced by Mariya Sionitskaya, Tchaikovsky regretted that Mravina could not sing the role. Yevgeniya Mravina Yevgeniya Konstantinovna Mravinskaya (), better known by her stage name Yevgeniya or Evgenia Mravina (; – ) was a Russian soprano, a half sister of revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai and the aunt of conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky. Born in Saint Petersburg, Mravina studied there with Ippolit Pryanishnikov, then in Berlin with Désirée Artôt and in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi. She made her debut in the role of Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Rigoletto"" at Vittorio Veneto"
"Giuseppina Gargano Giuseppina Gargano (1 January 1853 — 14 September 1939) was an Italian opera singer, born Giuseppina D'Amico. Giuseppina D'Amico was born in Catania, the daughter of Pietro D'Amico and Anna Bonazinga D'Amico (1830-1906). Her parents were performers. Her father demonstrated mesmerism and hypnotism, and was founder of the Italian Magnetic Society. Her mother had a following as a clairvoyant (""chiaroveggente""). She studied voice at Bologna. Giuseppina D'Amico was a teen in 1870, touring South America with her father's act, when she accepted a part in a production of ""La sonnambula"" in Montevideo. She sang the role of Gilda"
"the character from ""Gli Amanti Gelosi"". She was described by Thomas Gray as a singer ""with the utmost justness of ear, the strongest expression of countenance, the most speaking eyes, the greatest vivacy [sic] & variety of gesture"". She also received praise by Horace Walpole, who wrote that she ""beats all the actors and actresses I ever saw for vivacity and variety"". Nicolina Giordani Nicolina Giordani (1740 – after 1775), also known by the stage name La Signora Spiletta or La Spiletta, was an Italian opera singer. A member of the Giordanis family from Naples, she was the daughter of"
"Gilda (Italian singer) Gilda (born Rosangela Scalabrino on May 31, 1950) is an Italian singer. In 1975 she won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song ""Ragazza del sud"". Born in Masserano, Gilda started her career as the vocalist in a local band. After failing to qualify in a previous edition of the festival, she debuted at the 25th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival an won the competition with a song composed by herself, ""Ragazza del sud"", which was heavily criticized for its anti-feminist lyrics. After a few further singles, Gilda got married and started managing a hotel in"
"(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."
"Nelda Garrone Nelda (or Nella) Garrone (c. 1880 – ?) was an Italian mezzo-soprano, best known for her interpretations of comprimaria roles in some of the earliest complete opera recordings. There is no information on Garrone's place of birth, her early years and her vocal studies. She probably made her debut in 1907 at the Teatro Lirico in Milan as Suzuki in Giacomo Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"". From that point she had a notable career as a comprimaria mezzo-soprano, performing parts like Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's ""Rigoletto"", Afra in Alfredo Catalani's ""La Wally"", Contessa di Coigny and Madelon in Umberto Giordano's"
"La Gioconda (opera) La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito (as Tobia Gorrio), based on ""Angelo, Tyrant of Padua"", a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835. (This is the same source as Gaetano Rossi had used for his libretto for Mercadante's ""Il giuramento"" in 1837). First performed in 1876, ""La Gioconda"" was a major success for Ponchielli, as well as the most successful new Italian opera between Verdi's ""Aida"" (1871) and ""Otello"" (1887). It is also a famous example of the Italian genre of ""Grande"
"The opera's original title, ""La maledizione"" (The Curse), refers to a curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter the Duke has seduced with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda falls in love with the Duke and sacrifices her life to save him from assassins hired by her father. La Fenice of Venice commissioned Verdi in 1850 to compose a new opera. He was prominent enough by this time to enjoy some freedom in choosing texts to set to music. He initially asked Francesco Maria Piave (with whom he had already created"
"her debut there as Gilda, the daughter of the title character in Giuseppe Verdi's ""Rigoletto"". At the age of nineteen, she was the youngest prima donna to sing at the Metropolitan Opera at that time. (Patrice Munsel would perform there at age eighteen in 1943.) Her pending debut caused a media sensation, contrary to Gatti-Casazza's hopes that it would remain low-key. A delegation of two hundred leading citizens of Kansas City, including Mayor Albert I. Beach, arrived via a special train. Tickets were being resold at astronomical prices. A telegraph was set up backstage so her father could send dispatches"
"Claudio Sorrentino Claudio Sorrentino (born 18 July 1945 in Rome) is an Italian actor and voice actor. He is the second son of Arduino and Anna Sorrentino, the others being his sisters Rosa, Amalia and Liliana. When he was five years old Sorrentino began his career acting at the ""Grand Hotel di Roma"", singing the song ""O mese de Rose"", composed by Roberto Murolo. After his performance, Lilly D'Eramo (Nanni Eramo's wife) asked Claudio's mother to take him and his sisters to a specialized school. At the age of six, he interpreted ""Zi Dima"" in Luigi Pirandello's opera ""Giara"" and"
"He was especially noted for his interpretations of Verdi operas and some other roles like Scarpia (Tosca), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Guglielmo Tell and Don Giovanni. He can be heard on complete recordings of ""Nabucco"", ""La traviata"", ""Il trovatore"", ""Simon Boccanegra"", ""Don Carlo"", ""La Gioconda"", and ""Tosca"". Silveri retired from the stage in 1968 after a last performance of Rigoletto in Budapest with his daughter Silvia in the role of Gilda, and taught in Rome, where he died at age 87 in the summer of 2001. Paolo Silveri Paolo Silveri (b. Ofena, 28 December 1913 – d. Rome, 3"
"Frida Leider Frida Leider (April 18, 1888 – June 4, 1975) was a German opera singer. Leider was one of the most important dramatic sopranos of the 20th century. Her most famous roles were Wagner's Isolde and Brünnhilde, Beethoven's Fidelio, Mozart's Donna Anna, and Verdi's Aida and Leonora. She made over 80 recordings, mainly for Polydor and HMV. Leider was born in Berlin, where she studied singing while working in a bank. Her first engagements led her to opera houses in Halle, Königsberg, and Rostock. After an engagement with the Hamburg State Opera in 1923, she was hired by the"
"and Angela (""née"" Columbo) Brambilla. She was the fourth of five sisters, all of whom became opera singers. Marietta (1807–1875) was a contralto who specialised in ""travesti"" roles. Teresa (1813–1895) was a soprano who created the role of Gilda in ""Rigoletto"". Both had very prominent careers. Annetta (1812–?) and Lauretta (1823–1881) were both sopranos who had lesser careers, appearing primarily in provincial Italian opera houses. The family moved to Milan in 1828, and Giuseppina had hoped to train at the Milan Conservatory where both Marietta and Teresa had gone. However, she was not accepted when she auditioned in 1833 (as"
"Agrippina (opera) Agrippina (HWV 6) is an ""opera seria"" in three acts by George Frideric Handel with a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. Composed for the Venice ""Carnevale"" season, the opera tells the story of Agrippina, the mother of Nero, as she plots the downfall of the Roman Emperor Claudius and the installation of her son as emperor. Grimani's libretto, considered one of the best that Handel set, is an ""anti-heroic satirical comedy"", full of topical political allusions. Some analysts believe that it reflects Grimani's political and diplomatic rivalry with Pope Clement XI. Handel composed ""Agrippina"" at the end of"
"toward an operatic career. At the age of 15, Pagliughi moved to Italy with her family and she took voice lessons from the conductor/pedagogue Gaetano Bavagnoli in Milan. She made her debut in 1927, at Milan's Teatro Communale, as Gilda in ""Rigoletto"". Her success was such that she was immediately engaged to sing the part in a complete recording of the opera, with the baritone Luigi Piazza and the tenor Tino Folgar performing the leading male roles. She also provided the voice of the titular character in the original Italian dub of Disney's ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"". Pagliughi's"
"Anna Girò Anna Girò (born circa 1710), or Anna Giraud ""La Mantovana"", was the stage name of Anna Maddalena Tessieri, an Italian mezzo-soprano. She is best known for her collaborations with composer Antonio Vivaldi, who wrote several operatic roles for her. Girò was born in Mantua. Girò's father was a French barber and wig manufacturer. She began to study with Vivaldi around 1720. She made her debut at Treviso in the fall of 1723, and in 1724 debuted on stage in Venice, performing ""Laodice"" by Tomaso Albinoni. She sang for Vivaldi starting with her 1726 appearance in his opera ""Dorilla"
"24, 2018 on Deutsche Grammophon. Sierra has been awarded the following awards and scholarships: Nadine Sierra Nadine Sierra (born May 14, 1988) is an American soprano. She is most well known for her interpretation of Gilda in Verdi's ""Rigoletto,"" and Lucia in Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor."" Currently performing in leading roles in the top opera houses around the world, she received the 1st Prize and People's Choice Award 2013 at the Neue Stimmen competition, is the 2017 Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award Winner, and was awarded the Beverly Sills Artists Award in 2018. Her debut album on the Universal Music"
"Lina Pasini-Vitale Carolina Pasini-Vitale, known as Lina, (born Rome, November 8, 1872 – died there November 23, 1959) was an Italian soprano. Sister of Camilla Pasini, she studied in Rome before debuting at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan in Cilea's ""La tilda"". She saw early success at La Scala, in Rome, and in Turin singing Mascagni's Iris and Suzel. She also appeared as Micaëla, Mimi, and Gretel. In 1897 she married the conductor Edoardo Vitale. Beginning in 1914 she became known for her performance in the operas of Richard Wagner, creating Kundry in Buenos Aires for the South American"
"by listening to other sopranos, reading old singing-method books, and doing piano exercises with her voice instead of using a keyboard. Galli-Curci made her operatic debut in 1906 at Trani, as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's ""Rigoletto"", and she rapidly became acclaimed throughout Italy for the sweetness and agility of her voice and her captivating musical interpretations. She was seen by many critics as an antidote to the host of squally, verismo-oriented sopranos then populating Italian opera houses. The soprano had toured widely in Europe, Russia and South America. In 1915, she sang two performances of ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" with Enrico"
"Gilda Gelati Gilda Gelati (born 1967) is an Italian ballet dancer. She joined the La Scala Theatre Ballet in 1986 where she became a prima ballerina in 2001. She remained at La Scala until her retirement from the company in 2013. Born in Parma, from 1978 Gelati trained at La Scala Theatre Ballet School from where, after graduating in 1986, she joined the corps at the La Scala Theatre Ballet. She performed in a wide range of classical and contemporary works, including John Cranko's ""Romeo and Juliet"", Rudolf Nureyev's ""Cinderella"", Kenneth MacMillan's ""Manon"", Michel Fokine's ""Petrushka"" and George Balanchine's ""A"
"1664. In the Vienna manuscript the title role is written for the mezzo-soprano vocal range, but it was later re-written for soprano. Its most famous exponent was the Roman soprano Giulia Masotti whose nickname became ""La Dori"". Erasto is written for a bass in the Vienna version but later became an alto role, while Arsete began as a tenor and subsequently became a bass. The opera has a lengthy backstory published as the ""argomento"" in the preface to the libretto. Dori and her younger sister Arsinoe are the daughters of King Archelao of Nicaea. As a child Dori had been"
"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"
"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"
"of the hecklers and instead gave Scotto a standing ovation at the end of her performance. Scotto's opening night ""Norma ""in 1981 was less than a great success but her subsequent performances at the Met during the 1981–82 season were very successful as they were on tour. For more than 40 years, Scotto performed in operas written by 18 composers and her repertoire included some forty-five roles. She is best known for her performances as Violetta in ""La traviata"", Gilda in ""Rigoletto"", Cio-Cio-San in ""Madama Butterfly"", Mimì (and occasionally Musetta) in ""La bohème"", Lucia in ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", Adina in"
"in 1773. Set in Florence, the play focuses its main plot on the love match between its protagonists, Silvio and Belvidere. Belvidere is the daughter and only child of the reigning Duchess, and so a highly desirable marital partner; when the Duke of Milan, one of her suitors, goes so far as to try to kidnap her, the Duchess's guards drive his party off by force. Belvidere is then lodged in the duchy's fortress, where she can be protected; but she is now isolated from Silvio and other would-be suitors. Silvio exploits a family connection – the wife of the"
"Romilda Pantaleoni Romilda Pantaleoni (1847 – 20 May 1917) was an Italian soprano who had a prolific opera career in Italy during the 1870s and 1880s. She sang a wide repertoire that encompassed bel canto roles, Italian and French grand opera, verismo operas, and the German operas of Richard Wagner. She became particularly associated with the roles of Margherita in Boito's ""Mefistofele"" and the title role in Ponchielli's ""La Gioconda""; two roles which she performed in opera houses throughout Italy. She is best remembered today for originating the roles of Desdemona in Giuseppe Verdi's ""Otello"" (1887) and Tigrana in Giacomo"