Who composed the music for the opera Idomeneo?
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"operas. Mozart's commission for ""Idomeneo"" came in 1780 from Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria; his court in Munich paid Varesco 90 gulden. Leopold Mozart acted as a local intermediary for his son, and ""Ask the Abbate Varesco if we could not break off at the chorus in the second act, ""Placido e il mare"" after Elettra's first verse, when the chorus is repeated,--at all events after the second, for it is really far too long."" (V.1. - 43/46) Varesco resented the many cuts and changes that Mozart demanded, and insisted that his original text be published in full, which Mozart"
"Idomeneo The libretto clearly draws inspiration from Metastasio in its overall layout, the type of character development, and the highly poetic language used in the various numbers and the ""secco"" and ""stromentato"" recitatives. The style of the choruses, marches, and ballets is very French, and the shipwreck scene towards the end of act I is almost identical to the structure and dramatic working-out of a similar scene in Gluck's ""Iphigénie en Tauride"". The sacrifice and oracle scenes are similar to Gluck's ""Iphigénie en Aulide"" and ""Alceste"". Kurt Kramer has suggested that Varesco was familiar with Calzabigi and therefore the work"
"Geminiano Giacomelli Geminiano Giacomelli (sometimes Jacomelli) (May 28, 1692 – January 25, 1740) was an Italian composer. Giacomelli was born in Piacenza. In 1724 he was named to the post of ""Kapellmeister"" to the duke of Parma. Beginning with the first performance of his opera ""Ipermestra"", in 1724, he became one of the most popular opera composers of his era. Between 1724 and 1740 he composed 19 operas. His best known opera is ""Cesare in Egitto"" of 1735. He also wrote a deal of sacred music, including eight psalm settings for tenor and bass, and some concertos with continuo. In"
"""Act 1"" ""Act 2"" ""Act 3"" Idomeneo The libretto clearly draws inspiration from Metastasio in its overall layout, the type of character development, and the highly poetic language used in the various numbers and the ""secco"" and ""stromentato"" recitatives. The style of the choruses, marches, and ballets is very French, and the shipwreck scene towards the end of act I is almost identical to the structure and dramatic working-out of a similar scene in Gluck's ""Iphigénie en Tauride"". The sacrifice and oracle scenes are similar to Gluck's ""Iphigénie en Aulide"" and ""Alceste"". Kurt Kramer has suggested that Varesco was familiar"
"Tomaso Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is known today for his instrumental music, especially his concertos. He is also remembered today for a work called ""Adagio in G minor"", supposedly written by him, but probably written by Remo Giazotto, a modern musicologist and composer, who was a cataloger of the works of Albinoni. Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a wealthy paper merchant in Venice, he studied violin and singing. Relatively little is known about his"
"Imeneo Imeneo (alternative title: Hymen, HWV 41) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Silvio Stampiglia's ""Imeneo"". Handel had begun composition in September 1738, but did not complete the score until 1740. The opera received its first performance at the Lincoln's Inn Fields in London on 22 November 1740, and received another performance on 13 December. Handel then revised the score, and this revised version received concert performances in Dublin, on 24 and 31 March 1742. Charles Jennens, who created the libretti for both ""Saul"" and ""Messiah"", described Imeneo as"
"Dorothea Wendling (Maria) Dorothea Wendling, née Spurni (21 March 1736 – 20 August 1811) was a German soprano. Born in Stuttgart, she is remembered for being the singer for whom Mozart wrote the role of Ilia in ""Idomeneo, re di Creta"". She sang the role of Sabina in the 1768 premiere of Ignaz Hofbauer's opera ""Adriano in Siria""([[:es:Adriano en Siria (Holzbauer)|es). In 1752 she married flautist and composer [[Johann Baptist Wendling]]. They had a daughter, (1752–1794). Her sister-in-law was [[Elisabeth Wendling]] (1746–1786). Elisabeth and Dorothea performed in the 1772 premiere of [[Johann Christian Bach]]'s ""[[Temistocle (J.C. Bach)|Temistocle]]"". Dorothea Wendling died"
"1738 Giacomelli again became ""Kapellmeister"", this time at the Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto; he died in Loreto in 1740. ""The reference given there was:"" Geminiano Giacomelli Geminiano Giacomelli (sometimes Jacomelli) (May 28, 1692 – January 25, 1740) was an Italian composer. Giacomelli was born in Piacenza. In 1724 he was named to the post of ""Kapellmeister"" to the duke of Parma. Beginning with the first performance of his opera ""Ipermestra"", in 1724, he became one of the most popular opera composers of his era. Between 1724 and 1740 he composed 19 operas. His best known opera is ""Cesare"
"Elisabeth Wendling Elisabeth (""Lisl"") Augusta Wendling, (née Sarselli; 20 February 1746 (baptised) – 10 January 1786) was a German soprano, for whom Mozart wrote the role of Electra in his opera ""Idomeneo, re di Creta"". Wendling was born in Mannheim. There were four musicians in the original ""Idomeneo"" from the Wendling family. She usually sang with her sister-in-law Dorothea Wendling, after her début in 1762 in ""Sofonisba"" by Tommaso Traetta. Later, she occasionally sang as the prima donna, most famously as Anna in ""Günther von Schwarzburg"" (1777) by Ignaz Holzbauer. In a letter, Mozart says he has been introduced to"
"The Complete Opera Recordings"" (Naxos 8.110703). This recording was made in 1902. Fedora (opera) Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play ""Fédora"" by Victorien Sardou. Along with ""Andrea Chénier"" and ""Siberia"", it is one of the most notable works of Giordano. It was first performed at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on 17 November 1898 conducted by the composer with Gemma Bellincioni creating the role of Fedora, and Enrico Caruso as her lover, Loris Ipanov. In 1889, Umberto Giordano saw Sardou's play ""Fédora"" at the Teatro"
"Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri (20 August 156112 August 1633), known under the pseudonym Il Zazzerino, I was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, ""Dafne"" (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, ""Euridice"" (1600). Peri was born in Rome, but studied in Florence with Cristofano Malvezzi, and went on to work in a number of churches there, both as an organist and as a singer. He"
"Domenico Modugno Domenico Modugno (; 9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song ""Nel blu dipinto di blu"". He is considered the first Italian cantautore. The youngest of four children, Modugno was born at Polignano a Mare, in the province of Bari (Apulia), on 9 January 1928. His father, Vito Cosimo Modugno, was a municipal police commander, while his mother, Pasqua Lorusso, was a housewife. At the age of 9, his family moved to San"
"Domenico Mombelli Domenico Mombelli (13 January 1755 – 15 March 1835) was an Italian operatic tenor and composer. Born in Villanova Monferrato, Mombelli was the head of a distinguished family of singers and musicians that included his first wife, Luisa Laschi who created the role of Countess Almaviva in ""The Marriage of Figaro""; his second wife, Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli who wrote the libretto for Rossini's ""Demetrio e Polibio""; and his daughters Ester and Anna, both of whom had successful careers as opera singers. He was also the founder and head of a travelling opera company which performed in Lisbon, Padua, and"
"of the first violin, ""bearing in the top right-hand corner a stamp stating unequivocally the Dresden provenance of the original from which it was taken"". This provides support for Giazotto's account that he did base his composition on an earlier source. Tomaso Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is known today for his instrumental music, especially his concertos. He is also remembered today for a work called ""Adagio in G minor"", supposedly written by him, but probably written by Remo"
"Umberto Giordano Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 186712 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera, ""Marina"", was written for a competition promoted by the music publishers Casa Sonzogno for the best one-act opera, remembered today because it marked the beginning of Italian ""verismo"". The winner was Mascagni's ""Cavalleria rusticana"". Giordano, the youngest contestant, was placed sixth among seventy-three entries with his ""Marina"", a work which generated enough interest for Sonzogno to commission the staging of"
"in [[Munich]]. [[Category:1736 births]] [[Category:1811 deaths]] [[Category:People from Stuttgart]] [[Category:German operatic sopranos]] [[Category:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singers]] [[Category:18th-century German opera singers]] Dorothea Wendling (Maria) Dorothea Wendling, née Spurni (21 March 1736 – 20 August 1811) was a German soprano. Born in Stuttgart, she is remembered for being the singer for whom Mozart wrote the role of Ilia in ""Idomeneo, re di Creta"". She sang the role of Sabina in the 1768 premiere of Ignaz Hofbauer's opera ""Adriano in Siria""([[:es:Adriano en Siria (Holzbauer)|es). In 1752 she married flautist and composer [[Johann Baptist Wendling]]. They had a daughter, (1752–1794). Her sister-in-law was [[Elisabeth"
"end of the opera restates that one must not bow down to one's desire, but to reason; one must not follow true feelings and fidelity, but gratitude and honor. Handel: ""Imeneo "" - Capella Augustina, Cologne Vocal Ensemble Imeneo Imeneo (alternative title: Hymen, HWV 41) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Silvio Stampiglia's ""Imeneo"". Handel had begun composition in September 1738, but did not complete the score until 1740. The opera received its first performance at the Lincoln's Inn Fields in London on 22 November 1740, and received another"
"Tamerlano Tamerlano (""Tamerlane"", HWV 18) is an opera seria in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music theatre company, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's ""Tamerlano"" together with another libretto entitled ""Bajazet"" after Nicolas Pradon's ""Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet"". Viewed as one of Handel's major works, he composed it in the space of 20 days in July 1724, in a year in which two more great operas were composed by him: ""Giulio Cesare"" and ""Rodelinda"". Eve Meyer has noted that the role of Bajazet"
"Domenico Cimarosa Domenico Cimarosa ((; 17 December 1749 – 11 January 1801) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan school. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is ""Il matrimonio segreto"" (1792); most of his operas are comedies. He also wrote instrumental works and church music. Cimarosa was principally based in Naples, but spent some of his career in various other parts of Italy, composing for the opera houses of Rome, Venice, Florence and elsewhere. He was engaged by the empress of Russia Catherine the Great as her court composer and conductor between 1787 and 1791."
"""Idomeneo"" (1781); he was going against precedent at the time to write the ballet music himself rather than delegating it to another composer. ""The Marriage of Figaro"" (1786) includes a crucial dance scene in which Susanna passes a feigned love note to Count Almaviva during a fandango. The dance scene was one resisted by the theatrical management at the premiere, and Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte prevailed only with difficulty in including it. Perhaps the most elaborate dance scene in Mozart's operas is a party scene at the end of the first act of ""Don Giovanni"" (1787): guests"
"dramatic tenor, Francesco Tamagno, was to sing Otello while the esteemed French singing-actor Victor Maurel would assume the villainous baritone role of Iago. Romilda Pantaleoni, a well-known singing-actress, was assigned Desdemona's soprano part. Upon the completion of the opera, preparations for the initial performance were conducted in absolute secrecy and Verdi reserved the right to cancel the premiere up to the last minute. In particular, the composer expressed reservations about Tamagno's softer singing, though not about the power and ring of his vocalism in dramatic passages of the score. Verdi need not have worried: ""Otello""s debut proved to be a"
"1. UNESCO Chairholder, 2. Total Quality for Software Engineering Management, Springer, 3. Software Reliability - DTU 1.Elena Teodorini :Georges Bizet ""Carmen, opera (Habanera)"" record 1903 2.Elena Teodorini :Gaetano Donizetti ""Lucrezia Borgia, opera (Rondo)"" record 1903 3.Elena Teodorini :Gaetano Donizetti ""Lucrezia Borgia, opera (M'odi, ah m'odi)"" record 1903 4.Elena Teodorini :Amilcare Ponchielli ""La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts (Preghiera)"" record 1903 5.Elena Teodorini :Amilcare Ponchielli ""La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts (Parla (Arditi))"" record 1903 6.Elena Teodorini & Bidu Sayão Florin Popențiu Vlădicescu 'Florin Popenţiu Vlădicescu' ( Born, September 1950, in Bucharest) is Professor of Software Engineering. He was an associated"
"interminable ""Matrimonio Segreto"", which is nearly as tiresome as ""The Marriage of Figaro"" without being anything like so musical."" Robert Schumann was impressed by Cimarosa's ""absolutely masterful"" orchestration, but by little else. Eduard Hanslick praised Cimarosa's wonderful facility, masterly compositional strokes and good taste. ""Full of sunshine – that is the right expression for Cimarosa's music"". Domenico Cimarosa Domenico Cimarosa ((; 17 December 1749 – 11 January 1801) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan school. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is ""Il matrimonio segreto"" (1792); most of his operas are comedies. He also"
"Nicola Logroscino Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino (1698 – c.1765) was an Italian composer who is best known for his operas. He was born at Bitonto (Province of Bari) in the Apulia region and was a pupil of Giovanni Veneziano and Giuliano Perugino at the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto. In 1738 he collaborated with Leonardo Leo and others in the hasty production of ""Demetrio""; in the autumn of the same year he produced a comic opera, ""L'inganno per inganno"", the first of a long series of comic operas, the success of which won him the name of ""il Dio dell'opera"
"1957), who became a playwright and stage director. Porrino died in Rome in 1959 at the age of 49. The ""Concorso Internazionale di Pianoforte Ennio Porrino"" was established in his memory in 1980. Ennio Porrino Ennio Porrino (20 January 1910 – 25 September 1959) was an Italian composer and teacher. Amongst his compositions were orchestral works, an oratorio and several operas and ballets. His best known work is the symphonic poem ""Sardegna"", a tribute to his native Sardinia, which premiered in Florence in 1933. Porrino was born in Cagliari and studied at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He"
"Teseo, at first, thinks that his wife's accusation against his son may be a lie, but when Fedra provides him with the proof, Teseo who are blinded by anger invokes Poseidon to have Ippolito die on that same day. Ippolito loses his life that very day near the sea as a result of an accident. He fell from his horse and his head hit against a rock. When Teseo revealed the truth about the accusation, he throws himself against Fedra, announcing her death among cruel torments. Fedra (Pizzetti) Fedra is an opera in three acts composed by Ildebrando Pizzetti to"
"Giuseppe Farinelli Giuseppe Farinelli (7 May 1769 – 12 December 1836) was an Italian composer active at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century who excelled in writing opera buffas. Considered the successor and most successful imitator of Domenico Cimarosa, the greatest of his roughly 60 operas include ""I riti d'Efeso"" (1803, Venice), ""La contadina bizzarra"" (1810, Milan) and ""Ginevra degli Almieri"" (1812, Venice). More than 2/3 of his operas were produced between 1800-1810 at the height of his popularity. With the arrival of Gioachino Rossini his operas became less desirable with the public,"
"the new text. Another aria is ""Quell'usignolo"" (also sung by Epitide) which also had been recorded many times, and the aria is also known for its difficult coloratura part. The full opera has never been recorded. Merope (Giacomelli) La Merope is an opera seria in three acts by Geminiano Giacomelli with a libretto by Apostolo Zeno. It was dedicated to Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. It was first performed in 1734 at the Teatro Grimani di San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice. The stage designer was Alessandro Mauro, the costume designer was Natale Canciani and the choreographer was Francesco"
"features Alexander Sved as Folco, Vivian Della Chiesa as Giselda, Mario Berini as Rinaldo, and Virgilio Lazzari as Salomone. L'incantesimo L'incantesimo is a short opera in one act by Italian composer Italo Montemezzi. Its libretto was written by playwright Sem Benelli who had previously collaborated with the composer on his most famous opera, ""L'amore dei tre re"". Benelli finished the text in 1933, and Montemezzi started work on the score, but the composer's unpleasant relationship with Mussolini's government made Italy inconducive to creative work. Montemezzi resumed work on ""L'incantesimo"" during the summer of 1943 in Beverly Hills, his home during"
"Fedora (opera) Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play ""Fédora"" by Victorien Sardou. Along with ""Andrea Chénier"" and ""Siberia"", it is one of the most notable works of Giordano. It was first performed at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on 17 November 1898 conducted by the composer with Gemma Bellincioni creating the role of Fedora, and Enrico Caruso as her lover, Loris Ipanov. In 1889, Umberto Giordano saw Sardou's play ""Fédora"" at the Teatro Bellini di Napoli, with Sarah Bernhardt (for whom the play was written)"
"Giuseppe Giordani Giuseppe Tommaso Giovanni Giordani (December 19, 1751, Naples – January 4, 1798, Fermo) was an Italian composer, mainly of opera. Giordani's parents were Domenico Giordani and Anna Maria Tosato. He studied music in Naples with Domenico Cimarosa and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. In 1774 he was appointed as music director of the chapel of the Duomo of Naples. His first opera (""L'Epponina"") was released in 1779. His sacred drama ""La distruzione di Gerusalemme"" was a notable success at the Teatro San Carlo of Naples in 1787. He became maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Fermo in 1791. Until"
"Domenico Ferrabosco Domenico Maria Ferrabosco (Ferabosco) (14 February 1513 – February 1574) was an Italian composer and singer of the Renaissance, and the eldest musician in a large prominent family from Bologna. He spent his career both in Bologna and Rome. His surviving music is all vocal, consisting of madrigals and motets, although he is principally known for his madrigals, which musicologist Alfred Einstein compared favorably to those of his renowned contemporary Cipriano de Rore. Born in Bologna, Domenico was one of four sons of Annibale Ferrabosco, members of a distinguished Bolognese family whose genealogical records date back to the"