Who composed the music for the opera The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra)?
"to Naples in early June with no projects in the offing, except to become involved with overseeing a new production of his ""La gazza ladra"" there. Also, a commission from Milan's La Scala for an opera, which would become ""Bianca e Falliero"", had been offered and was planned for December of that year. Suddenly, the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini withdrew from a commitment to write two operas for the Naples house that season, thus leaving a huge gap. Rossini was quickly asked to write an opera for a September premiere; rather than use an existing libretto, the house insisted upon"
"the opera for subsequent productions in Pesaro; and then in 1819 for the Teatro del Fondo, in Naples, in 1820 for the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, and in 1866 revised the music for performance in Paris. The first performance of ""The Thieving Magpie"" in England was at the King's Theatre, London, on 10 March 1821. As the French-language ""La pie voleuse"", the opera's first performance in the United States was at the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans, on 30 December 1828. In 1941, Riccardo Zandonai composed a version of ""The Thieving Magpie"" for a revival of the opera in Pesaro."
"is provided by the servant Pappacione, fooled into searching for gold in an old cistern. All ends happily. Notes Cited sources Other sources La zingara La zingara (""The Gypsy Girl"") is an opera semiseria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola after ""La petite bohémienne"" (""The Little Gypsy"") by Louis-Charles Caigniez, which was itself derived from a work of August von Kotzebue. It was Donizetti's first opera written for Naples, and the first performance of this ""rescue opera"" took place at the Teatro Nuovo on 12 May 1822. One critic reviewing the 2001"
"Joaquín Gaztambide Joaquín Romualdo Gaztambide y Garbayo (Tudela, Navarre, 7 February 1822 – Madrid, 18 March 1870) was one of the most prominent Spanish composers of the Zarzuela in the nineteenth century in Spain. His contribution to the revival of the zarzuela was highly significant, although during the last century his work virtually disappeared from the Spanish musical scene. Of Italian quality, and in the manner of Gaetano Donizetti, his music, however, makes use of Spanish rhythms and folk songs. Among other renowned operettas, stand out his ""La Mensajera"" (1849), ""El valle de Andorra"" (1851), ""Catalina"" (1854), ""Los magiares"" (1857),"
"La zingara La zingara (""The Gypsy Girl"") is an opera semiseria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola after ""La petite bohémienne"" (""The Little Gypsy"") by Louis-Charles Caigniez, which was itself derived from a work of August von Kotzebue. It was Donizetti's first opera written for Naples, and the first performance of this ""rescue opera"" took place at the Teatro Nuovo on 12 May 1822. One critic reviewing the 2001 recording from the Festival della Valle d'Itria, the opera's first performance outside Italy, made the following observations: Despite its moronic libretto, the opera"
"that a pair of golden scissors belonging to Irma in Miarka's possession, though she claims to have found them. After the Romani depart, the police start looking for them. Tintin also investigates Igor Wagner, whose behaviour he finds suspicious, but finds out that the musician is simply sneaking out to indulge in a horse-gambling habit. Castafiore leaves for Milan to perform in the opera ""La gazza ladra"" (Italian: ""The Thieving Magpie""). Tintin realises that the true culprit responsible for the theft of the emerald and the scissors is a magpie. He explains to Haddock that the scissors must have fallen"
"La Calliroe La Calliroe is an opera in three acts by Josef Mysliveček set to a libretto by Matteo Verazi that is based on Greek legends about the Oceanid Callirrhoe. This opera (and all the rest of Mysliveček's operas) belong to the serious type in Italian language referred to as ""opera seria"". Vocal pieces from the opera composed for the singer Luigi Marchesi in the role of Tarsile were widely copied in eighteenth-century collections of operatic arias. The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on 30 May 1779 to commemorate the nameday of Ferdinand, the"
"Music. Francisco Asenjo Barbieri Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (3 August 1823 – 19 February 1894) was a well-known composer of the popular Spanish opera form, ""zarzuela."" His works include: ""El barberillo de Lavapiés"", ""Jugar con fuego"", ""Pan y toros"", ""Don Quijote"", ""Los diamantes de la corona"", and ""El Diablo en el poder"". He was born and died in Madrid, appropriately, since the themes are characters of his operas are often distinctly Spanish and Madrilenian. Among the characters featured by Barbieri are bullfighters, ""manolos"" and ""manolas"", and even (in ""Pan y toros"") the famous Spanish painter, Francisco Goya. The character of much"
"Augusto Algueró Augusto Algueró Dasca (23 February 1934, Barcelona – 16 January 2011, Torremolinos) was a Spanish arranger, composer and music director. Algueró studied both music and medicine. Among his most famous cover songs are ""Penélope"", which was performed by Joan Manuel Serrat, as well as ""Noelia"" (Nino Bravo), ""Tómbola"" (Marisol) and ""La chica yé-yé"" (Concha Velasco). In 1961, Algueró wrote the debut entry of Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest, ""Estando contigo"" by Conchita Bautista. He was the musical director for the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Madrid. He also conducted ""Catherine"", sung by Romuald Figuier,"
"Francisco Asenjo Barbieri Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (3 August 1823 – 19 February 1894) was a well-known composer of the popular Spanish opera form, ""zarzuela."" His works include: ""El barberillo de Lavapiés"", ""Jugar con fuego"", ""Pan y toros"", ""Don Quijote"", ""Los diamantes de la corona"", and ""El Diablo en el poder"". He was born and died in Madrid, appropriately, since the themes are characters of his operas are often distinctly Spanish and Madrilenian. Among the characters featured by Barbieri are bullfighters, ""manolos"" and ""manolas"", and even (in ""Pan y toros"") the famous Spanish painter, Francisco Goya. The character of much of"
"Margarita la tornera Margarita la tornera (""Margarita the Gatekeeper"") is an opera in three acts composed by Ruperto Chapí to a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw, based on a dramatic poem by José Zorrilla. It premiered on 24 February 1909 at the Teatro Real in Madrid in a performance conducted by the composer. An acclaimed recording of the opera came out in 1999 with Plácido Domingo and Elisabete Matos. Following its initial staging, the opera languished in obscurity for many years. Finally, through the efforts of tenor Plácido Domingo, who starred in the new production, it was revived in Spain"
"opera composers include Ettore Panizza (whose opera ""Aurora"" was commissioned for the Colón inaugural season and ""Bizancio"" from 1939), Felipe Boero (""El Matrero"" from 1929 his most famous opera, also ""Tucumán"" 1918, ""Ariana y Dyonisos"", 1920, ""Raquela"", 1923 and ""Siripo"", 1937), Juan José Castro (composer of ""Bodas de sangre"" and ""La zapatera prodigiosa"", both after Federico Garcia Lorca's plays and ""Proserpina y el extranjero"", 1952), Carlos López Buchardo (""El sueño de Alma"", 1914), Pascual De Rogatis (""Huemac"", 1916 and ""La novia del hereje"", 1934), Eduardo Garcia Mansilla (""La angelical manuelita"",1917), Constantino Gaito (""Petronio"", 1919; ""Ollantay"", 1926, ""La sangre de las"
"and ""El Testamento Azul"" with Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. He also wrote the opera ""El manco de Lepanto - Episodio histórico en un acto y en verso"" (1867) in homage to Cervantes which tells the story of the writer's captivity and release in Argel. He also composed a parody of Cristóbal Oudrid's ""El molinero of Subiza"" entitled ""El carbonero of Subiza"". Rafael Aceves y Lozano Rafael Aceves y Lozano (20 March 1837 – 21 February 1876) was a Spanish composer. He studied at the Madrid Conservatory, earning a gold medal in 1863. He was especially known for his sacred music compositions"
"Goehr worked from Rinuccini's original script and, as a tribute to the historic opera, incorporated sections of Monteverdi's setting of the lament into his score. Notes References Sources 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 been released on CD. La cigale et la fourmi La cigale et la fourmi (The Grasshopper and the Ant) is a three-act opéra comique, with music by Edmond Audran and words by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru. Loosely based on Jean de La Fontaine's version of Aesop's fable ""The Ant and the Grasshopper"", the opera shows the lives of two young women, one prudent, like the ant, the other improvident and reckless, like the grasshopper. Unlike the Aesop fable this version has a happy ending, with the ""ant"" looking after the destitute ""grasshopper"". The work was first performed at"
"a smuggler who is pursued by two opérette gendarmes. 1928 Juerga, music by Julien Bautista. Scenes of popular life in Madrid around 1 885 : returning from a popular festival, young people from good families in search of pleasure mingle with common folk, and give themselves to unrestrained jollity : turmoil, dancing, and colourful to-ing and fro-ing. 1929 Triana, music by Albeniz. Lovers' tiffs during the Corpus Christi in Sevilla. La Argentina (dancer) Antonia Mercé y Luque (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), stage name La Argentina, was an Argentine-born Spanish dancer known for her creation of the neoclassical"
"dance of shepherds and shepherdesses concludes the opera. Amadigi di Gaula Amadigi di Gaula (HWV 11) is a ""magic"" opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel. It was the fifth Italian opera that Handel wrote for London and was composed during his stay at Burlington House in 1715. It is based on ""Amadis de Grèce"", a French tragédie-lyrique by André Cardinal Destouches and Antoine Houdar de la Motte. Charles Burney maintained near the end of the eighteenth century, ""Amadigi"" contained ""...more invention, variety and good composition, than in any one of the musical dramas of Handel which"
"Gaetano Latilla Gaetano Latilla (12 January 1711 – 15 January 1788) was an Italian opera composer, the most important of the period immediately preceding Niccolò Piccinni (his nephew). Latilla was born in Bari, and studied at the Loreto Conservatory in Naples. He began writing comic operas for the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples in 1732, and is best known for his settings of ""Gismondo"" (Rome, 1737) and ""Madama Ciana"" (Rome, 1738). These two works, along with two by Rinaldo da Capua, formed the core of the traveling Italian comic opera repertory of the 1740s and early 1750s. He also wrote"
"Manuel García (tenor) Manuel del Pópulo Vicente Rodriguez García (also known as Manuel García the Senior; 21 January 1775 – 10 June 1832) was a Spanish opera singer, composer, impresario, and singing teacher. García was born in Seville, Spain, on 21 January 1775. In 1808, he went to Paris, with previous experience as a tenor at Madrid and Cadiz. By that year, when he appeared in the opera ""Griselda"" in Paris, he was already a composer of light operas. He lived in Naples, Italy, performing in Gioachino Rossini's operas. These included the premières of ""Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra"", in which he"
"by José Zorrilla de San Martín. In the 19th and 20th century, a number of operas were produced in Latin America in which conflict between Europeans and indigenous peoples was a theme. Among the most important operas of this type are ""Liropeya"" by León Ribeiro (Uruguay); ""Guatimotzin"" by Aniceto Ortega (Mexico); ""Il Guarany"" by Antonio Carlos Gomes (1836–1896), based on a novel by the Brazilian José Martiniano de Alencar; ""Atzimba"" by Ricardo Castro (Mexico, 1864–1907); the three eponymous operas based on the ""Tabaré"" by José Zorrilla de San Martín, written, respectively, by Arturo Cosgaya Ceballos (Mexico, 1869–1937), Heliodoro Oseguera (Mexico),"
"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"
"guitarras""), 1927, Floro Ugarte (""Saika"", 1920), Gilardo Gilardi (""Ilse"", 1923;"" La leyenda del urutaú"", 1934), Athos Palma (""Nazdah"", 1924), Hector Iglesias Villoud (""El Oro del Inca"", 1953), Virtú Maragno and Alberto Ginastera composer of ""Don Rodrigo"", ""Beatrix Cenci"" and ""Bomarzo"". In recent years other Argentinean opera composers include Roberto Garcia Morillo (""El caso Maillard"", 1977) Mario Perusso (""La voz del silencio""), Claudio Guidi-Drei (""Medea"", 1973), Juan Carlos Zorzi (""Antigona Velez"", 1991 and ""Don Juan"", 1993), Pompeyo Camps (""La hacienda"", 1987, ""Marathon"", 1990 and ""La oscuridad de la razón"", 1996), Gerardo Gandini (""La ciudad ausente"", 1995 and ""Liederkreis"", 2000), Ástor Piazzolla"
"Pizarre Pizarre, ou La conquête de Pérou (""Pizarro, or The Conquest of Peru"") is an opera by the French composer Pierre-Joseph Candeille, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 3 May 1785. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in five acts. The libretto, by Pierre Duplessis, is based on Voltaire's tragedy ""Alzire, ou Les américains"" (1736). Its subject is the Spanish conquistador and conqueror of the Incas, Francisco Pizarro. A revised version of the opera appeared in 1791. Alzire, daughter of Atabaliba, King of Peru, is engaged to Zamore. They are due to"
"composer, equal in productivity to her court colleagues Jacopo Peri and Marco da Gagliano. Very little of her music survives. Most of her stage music was composed for performance in comedies by poet Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger (grand-nephew of the artist) such as ""La Tancia"" (1613), ""Il passatempo"" (1614) and ""La fiera"" (1619). In 1618 she published a collection of thirty-six solo songs and soprano/bass duets (""Il primo libro delle musiche"") that is a compendium of contemporary styles, ranging from intensely moving, harmonically adventurous laments to joyful sacred songs in Italian and Latin, to witty strophic songs about the joys"
"Scipione Scipione (HWV 20) - or Publio Cornelio Scipione - is an opera seria in three acts, with music composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) in 1726. The librettist was Paolo Antonio Rolli. Handel composed ""Scipione"" whilst in the middle of writing ""Alessandro"". It was based upon the life of Roman General Scipio Africanus. Its slow march is the regimental march of the Grenadier Guards and is played at London Metropolitan police passing out ceremonies. ""Scipione"" had its premiere on 12 March 1726 at The King's Theatre, Haymarket. Handel revived the opera in 1730,"
"La canterina La canterina (""The Songstress"" or ""The Diva""), Hob. XXVIII/2, is a short, two-act opera buffa by Joseph Haydn, the first one he wrote for Prince Esterhazy. Based on the intermezzo from the third act of Niccolò Piccinni's opera L'Origille (1760), it lasts about 50 minutes. It was written in 1766, and was premiered in the fall of that year. It was originally intended as a pair of intermezzi, each of the two acts coming between the acts of an opera seria. Similar works include ""La serva padrona"" by Pergolesi and ""Pimpinone"" by Telemann. Gasparina, the songstress, and her"
"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"
"Cortez and Montezuma are heard in duet for the first time, singing the last verse of the poem by Paz. The opera has been performed in Cologne, Madrid and Frankfurt, and, in 2015, at the Salzburg Festival. Die Eroberung von Mexico Die Eroberung von Mexico (""The Conquest of Mexico"") is an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Rihm, premiered in Hamburg on 9 February 1992. The libretto, by the composer, is based on Antonin Artaud's 1932 text, ""La conquête du Mexique"", but also included elements of Artaud's ""Le théâtre de Séraphin"" and of poetry by Octavio Paz (his 1937 poem,"
"Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The house at 10 rue Hérold is Hérold's birthplace. The street was named in his honour in 1881. Ferdinand Hérold Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold (28 January 1791 – 19 January 1833), better known as Ferdinand Hérold (), was a French operatic composer of Alsatian descent who also wrote many pieces for the piano, orchestra, and the ballet. He is best known today for the ballet ""La fille mal gardée"" and the overture to the opera ""Zampa"". L. J. F. Hérold was born in Paris, the only child of François-Joseph Hérold, a pianist, teacher, and composer,"
"Leonard Salzedo Leonard Salzedo (24 September 1921 – 6 May 2000) was an English composer and conductor of Spanish descent. Salzedo was born in London. He studied composition under Herbert Howells and violin under Isolde Menges at the Royal College of Music in London, before becoming a professional composer in 1944. He worked closely with the Ballet Rambert, for whom his first ballet, ""The Fugitive"", was commissioned. His most successful ballet was ""The Witch Boy"" based on the ‘Ballad of Barbara Allan’. He was musical director of the Ballet Rambert from 1967 to 1972 and principal conductor with the Scottish"
"Le Grand Macabre Le Grand Macabre (1974–77, revised version 1996) is the only opera by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. The opera has two acts, and its libretto – based on the 1934 play ""La balade du grand macabre"" by Michel De Ghelderode – was written by Ligeti in collaboration with , director of the Stockholm puppet theatre. The original libretto was written in German as ""Der grosse Makaber"" but for the first production was translated into Swedish by Meschke under its current title . The opera has been performed also in English, French, Italian, Hungarian and Danish. Only a few"
"in London, New York, and Milan such as Mussorgsky's ""Khovanshchina"" and Respighi's ""La campana sommersa"". Panizza composed four operas; ""Il fidanzato del mare"" (1897), ""Medio Evo Latino"" (1900), ""Aurora"" (1908), his most successful work (the tenor aria ""Alta en el cielo"" in the second Spanish version became the patriotic song school children sing to the flag) and ""Bizancio"" (1939). He published his autobiography ""Medio Siglo de Vida Musical"" in 1952. Panizza died in Milan in 1967. Ettore Panizza Ettore Panizza (born Héctor Panizza; 12 August 187527 November 1967) was an Argentinian conductor and composer, one of the leading conductors of"
"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"