"was cut short due to financial reasons. The company's last performance was of Georges Bizet's ""Carmen"" on April 29, 1954 with Gloria Lane in the title role, David Poleri as Don José, Rutilio del Vecchio as Escamillo, Dora Marasco as Micaëla, and Moresco conducting. In November 1954 the company merged with the Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company to form the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company The Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company (defunct) was an American opera company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that was actively performing at the Academy of Music between 1925 and 1954. In 1955"
"Many of the characters were eliminated including Jehan Frollo, the dissolute younger brother of the chief antagonist Claude Frollo, although some aspects of his character were incorporated into Claude's. The main protagonist of the novel, Quasimodo, has a much reduced role in the opera, which concentrates more on the love story between Esmeralda and Phoebus. At Bertin's request, the ending of the novel was also changed with Esmeralda escaping execution. In 1834, ""Notre-Dame de Paris"" had been placed on the ""Index Librorum Prohibitorum"", the list of works condemned by the Catholic Church. The opera libretto was submitted to the censors"
"thus there is little written record or correspondence relating to the beginning of the collaboration. The libretto was prepared in accordance with the conventions of ""opéra comique"", with dialogue separating musical numbers. It deviates from Mérimée's novella in a number of significant respects. In the original, events are spread over a much longer period of time, and much of the main story is narrated by José from his prison cell, as he awaits execution for Carmen's murder. Micaëla does not feature in Mérimée's version, and the Escamillo character is peripheral—a picador named Lucas who is only briefly Carmen's grand passion."
"Jacques Bouhy Jacques-Joseph-André Bouhy (18 June 1848 – 24 January 1929) was a Belgian baritone, most famous for being the first to sing the ""Toreador Song"" in the role of Escamillo in the opera ""Carmen"". Bouhy was born in Pepinster. After studying at the Liège Conservatory of Music, he made his début at the Paris Opéra as Méphistophélès (""Faust"") in 1871. He performed at the Opéra-Comique as Figaro (""Le Nozze di Figaro""), Escamillo (""Carmen"") in 1875. At the Comique he also created the role of ""Don César de Bazan"" in 1872. In 1882 he appeared at Covent Garden singing in"
"""Mefistofele"", Escamillo in ""Carmen"", Mephistopheles in ""Faust"", Zaccaria in ""Nabucco"", Leporello in ""Don Giovanni"", Raimondo in ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", the High Priest in ""Samson et Dalila"", Jaroslav Prus in ""The Makropulos Case"", Jochanaan in ""Salome"", Amonasro in ""Aida"", Mustafa in ""L’Italiana in Algeri"", Thoas in ""Iphigénie en Tauride"", Alidoro in ""La Cenerentola"" (Cinderella), Argante in ""Rinaldo"", Scarpia in ""Tosca"", among others. In the course of his career, Doss has performed with operatic artists such as Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming and Denyce Graves. Doss made his debut at Milan's La Scala in 2004 in the role of Escamillo in ""Carmen"". Since"
"Academy of Music where he was a student at the time. Alberto Randegger (the musical director of the Carl Rosa company) and the eccentric British poet Theo Marzials co-wrote the libretto. Its subject, Esmeralda, a central protagonist in Victor Hugo's novel ""Notre-Dame de Paris"" (""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame""), had already been the focus of several earlier operas, including Louise Bertin's ""La Esmeralda"" (1836), Alexander Dargomyzhsky's ""Esmeralda"" (1847), and Fabio Campana's ""Esmeralda"" (1869). In the tragic denouement of Hugo's original novel, Esmeralda dies on the scaffold. However, Marzials and Randegger's libretto gave the story a happy ending, a decision heavily criticised"
"an episode in the legendary history of Rome, traditionally dated to 750 BC. The opera's main protagonists are Romolo (Romulus, the founder and ruler of Rome) and Ersilia (Hersilia, who became the wife of Romulus). The same libretto was set eight years later by Josef Mysliveček and again titled ""Romolo ed Ersilia"". The libretto also formed the basis for a 1780 ballet d'action choreographed by Charles Le Picq to music by Martín y Soler and entitled ""Il ratto delle Sabine"". Romolo ed Ersilia (Hasse) Romolo ed Ersilia is an opera in three acts composed by Johann Adolph Hasse to an"
"Madrid, in his sixty-fifth year. Vicente Sardinero Vicente (Vicenç) Sardinero (12 January 1937 – 9 February 2002), né Sardinero-Puerto, was a Spanish operatic lyric baritone. Born in Barcelona, he made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in his native city in the 1964–65 season, as Escamillo in ""Carmen"". His first appearance at the Teatro alla Scala was in 1967, as Enrico in ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", opposite Renata Scotto, subsequently appearing there in ""Il trovatore"" (1978), ""I due Foscari"" (1980), and ""Falstaff"" (as Ford, conducted by Lorin Maazel, and directed by Giorgio Strehler, 1981). Sardinero also sang at London's"
"Steven B. Jepson Steven B. Jepson is an American opera singer, a baritone. In addition to his work in opera he has appeared in musical theater and film. He is best known for his interpretation of Escamillo in ""Carmen"", a role he has played with several companies in the United States and Europe. He was nominated by both Creative Loafing Magazine and the Metrolina Theatre Association as best actor for his portrayal of Emile De Becque in South Pacific. He also has performed as principal singer for Norwegian Cruise Line on board the Norwegian Sky. Jepson is also a teacher,"
"Father in ""Louise"". Giraldoni made a number of recordings prior to World War I, some of which have been reissued on CD. Eugenio Giraldoni Eugenio Giraldoni (20 May 1871, Marseille – 23 June 1924, Helsinki) was an Italian operatic baritone who enjoyed a substantial international career. In 1900, he created the role of Baron Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's ""Tosca"". He was the son of another leading baritone, Leone Giraldoni, and the soprano and violinist Carolina Ferni. His mother gave him voice lessons and he made his opera debut in Barcelona, as Escamillo in ""Carmen"", in 1891. Giraldoni consolidated his career"
"Vicente Sardinero Vicente (Vicenç) Sardinero (12 January 1937 – 9 February 2002), né Sardinero-Puerto, was a Spanish operatic lyric baritone. Born in Barcelona, he made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in his native city in the 1964–65 season, as Escamillo in ""Carmen"". His first appearance at the Teatro alla Scala was in 1967, as Enrico in ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", opposite Renata Scotto, subsequently appearing there in ""Il trovatore"" (1978), ""I due Foscari"" (1980), and ""Falstaff"" (as Ford, conducted by Lorin Maazel, and directed by Giorgio Strehler, 1981). Sardinero also sang at London's Covent Garden (Marcello in ""La"
"Giacomo Rimini Giacomo Rimini (March 22, 1887 – March 6, 1952) was an Italian-born, naturalized-American operatic baritone. He was most admired for his interpretations of the works of Giuseppe Verdi. Giacomo Rimini was born and raised in Verona, Italy. His father, Riccardo Rimini, descended from Sephardic Jews long resident in Verona; his mother, Giulia Sottopera, was Catholic. Rimini studied at the Verona Music Conservatory with Amelia Conti Foroni. He began his operatic career in Italy in his early twenties. His first lead role was as Escamillo in Bizet's ""Carmen"" at the age of 22. In 1910 he sang the role"
"But Paloma and the noble couple are soon caught. However, Lamparilla had fled across the rooftops and he rushes back in to announce that Grimaldi has been removed and Floridablanca replaced him as prime minister. As a nephew of Grimaldi, Don Luis is forced to go into exile but La Marquesita decides to join him, while Lamparilla and Paloma pledge their mutual love, and all ends in joy and happiness. Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 El barberillo de Lavapiés El barberillo de Lavapiés is a zarzuela in three acts (Op.56) by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. The libretto, in Spanish, is"
"La Esmeralda (opera) La Esmeralda is a grand opera in four acts composed by Louise Bertin. The libretto was written by Victor Hugo, who had adapted it from his novel ""Notre-Dame de Paris"" (""The Hunchback of Notre Dame""). The opera premiered at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris on 14 November 1836 with Cornélie Falcon in the title role. Despite the lavish production, the premiere was a failure, and ""La Esmeralda"" proved to be the last opera composed by Bertin, although she lived for another 40 years. Partially paralyzed from birth, and basically chair-bound, Louise Bertin had"
"Amleto Amleto is an opera in four acts by Franco Faccio set to a libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". It premiered on 30 May 1865 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and was revised for a La Scala production given on 12 February 1871. The collaboration and friendship between librettist and composer was to last throughout Faccio's lifetime. In addition (as musicologist William Ashbrook states): """"Amleto"" marks an effort of two prominent members of the Scapigliatura (a late Romantic reform movement in northern Italy in the 1860s and 70s) to renew the tradition of Italian"
"2005 as Escamillo in ""Carmen"", in 2006 in the title role in ""Don Giovanni"" for the Met's Japan Tour, in 2007 as Figaro in ""Le nozze di Figaro"" and in 2008 in the title role in ""Don Giovanni"". Since his debut at the Royal Opera House in September 2003 as Leporello in ""Don Giovanni"", Schrott has sung Figaro in ""Le nozze di Figaro"", and the title role in ""Don Giovanni"" with the company. He sang the role of Escamillo (7 December 2009) in the production of ""Carmen"" conducted by Daniel Barenboim, with Jonas Kaufmann as Don Josè and Anita Rachvelishvili"
"Eugenio Giraldoni Eugenio Giraldoni (20 May 1871, Marseille – 23 June 1924, Helsinki) was an Italian operatic baritone who enjoyed a substantial international career. In 1900, he created the role of Baron Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's ""Tosca"". He was the son of another leading baritone, Leone Giraldoni, and the soprano and violinist Carolina Ferni. His mother gave him voice lessons and he made his opera debut in Barcelona, as Escamillo in ""Carmen"", in 1891. Giraldoni consolidated his career by appearing at various operatic venues in Italy and, in 1898, visiting South America. Then, in 1900, he earned a place in"
"cutting down Esmeralda’s body from the gibbet, Quasimodo appears and demands that they give him her body. Driving them away, he kneels beside her body and mourns her, promising to stay with her and that even in death they will not be parted (""Danse, Mon Esmeralda""). After the curtain call, Gringoire leads the cast in a reprise of ""Le Temps des Cathedrales"". 1. Overture — Orchestra 2. The Age of the Cathedrals — Gringoire 3. The Refugees — Clopin & Chorus 4. Frollo's Intervention — Frollo & Phoebus 5. The Bohemian Song — Esmeralda 6. Esmeralda, You See — Clopin"
"Midsummer Night’s Dream"" in concert at Berkeley Opera in 2000. He performed recitals around the US and Europe, and other countertenor/sopranist roles in operas, including both Dido and the Sorceress in ""Dido and Aeneas"" with Oakland Lyric Opera in 2001, and Wilder in the world premiere of ""Earthrise"" (composed by Lewis Spratlan) at San Francisco Opera. He performed his first baritone role as Escamillo in ""Carmen"" at San Francisco Lyric Opera in 2005, and has since built an extensive repertoire, including Enrico in ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" (Center Stage Opera, 2005 and North Bay Opera, 2010), Germont in ""La traviata"" (West"
"in ""Ernani"", Zaccaria in ""Nabucco"", Walter in ""Luisa Miller"", Philippe II in ""Don Carlos"", Padre Guardiano in ""La Forza del Destino"" and Nick Shadow in ""The Rake’s Progress""); Bayerische Staatsoper (Giorgio, Raimondo, title role in Handel’s ""Saul"", Zoroastro in ""Orlando""); San Francisco Opera (Giorgio, Raimondo and Basilio in ""Il Barbiere di Siviglia""); Amsterdam (Figaro in ""Le Nozze di Figaro"", Raimondo), Madrid (Philip II in ""Don Carlo"", Raimondo and Muley-Hassem in Emilio Arrieta’s ""La Conquista di Granata""); Seville (Mephistopheles in Gounod’s ""Faust""); Palermo (Walter in ""Luisa Miller""); Pesaro (Le Gouverneur in Rossini’s ""Le Compte Ory"") and La Scala, Milan (""Melisso in"
"Esmeralda (opera) Esmeralda is an opera in four acts composed by Arthur Goring Thomas to an English-language libretto by Theo Marzials and Alberto Randegger based on Victor Hugo's novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"". It premiered in London on 26 March 1883 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with Georgina Burns in the title role and Barton McGuckin as her lover, Phoebus. ""Esmeralda"" was Thomas's first opera to receive a full staging. It was commissioned by the Carl Rosa Opera Company following a very successful performance of excerpts from his opera ""The Light of the Harem"" in 1879 at the Royal"
"coach and clinician in acting as well as singing. Steven B. Jepson Steven B. Jepson is an American opera singer, a baritone. In addition to his work in opera he has appeared in musical theater and film. He is best known for his interpretation of Escamillo in ""Carmen"", a role he has played with several companies in the United States and Europe. He was nominated by both Creative Loafing Magazine and the Metrolina Theatre Association as best actor for his portrayal of Emile De Becque in South Pacific. He also has performed as principal singer for Norwegian Cruise Line on"
"amongst other acclaimed opera companies/houses around the world and international music festivals. His extensive repertoire includes Figaro in ""Le nozze di Figaro"", Escamillo in ""Carmen"", Filippo II in ""Don Carlos"", Silva in ""Ernani"", Pimen in ""Boris Godunov"", Sarastro in ""Die Zauberflöte"", Oroveso in ""Norma"", Basilio in ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"", Daland in ""Der fliegende Holländer"", Banquo in ""Macbeth"", Don Giovanni, Masetto and Leporello in ""Don Giovanni"", Il Conte Walter in ""Luisa Miller"", Lodovico in ""Otello"", Padre Guardiano in ""La forza del destino"", Selim in ""Il turco in Italia"", Orest in ""Elektra"", Colline in ""La bohème"", Timur in ""Turandot"" , Mephistopheles"
"traviata""), Milan La Scala (""Falstaff"", ""Rigoletto"", ""La traviata""), New York Metropolitan Opera (""Attila"", ""La bohème"", ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"", ""La Cenerentola"","" L'elisir d'amore"", ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", ""Rigoletto"", ""Der Rosenkavalier""), Madrid Teatro Real (""Werther""), Paris Opéra-Bastille (""Rigoletto, La traviata""), San Francisco Opera (""Un ballo in maschera, L'elisir d'amore, Lucia di Lammermoor""), Vienna State Opera (""La bohème"", ""L'elisir d'amore"", ""La favorita"", ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", ""Manon"", ""Maria Stuarda"", ""Rigoletto"", ""Roberto Devereux"", ""Werther""), Verona Arena (""Il barbiere di Siviglia"", ""Rigoletto""), and others. In addition to his operatic career, he is also an accomplished concert singer, with an extensive repertoire ranging from Italian classical songs"
"castrato Senesino and the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. The opera received its premiere at the King's Theatre in London on 11 November 1727, and 11 subsequent performances. It was also performed in Hamburg and Braunschweig in February 1729. The Hamburg performance, led by none other than Georg Philipp Telemann, included two new comic characters, Murmilla and Gelasius; recitatives and the added arias for the new characters were translated into German although the original arias remained in Italian. Handel subsequently re-used music from the opera in ""Scipione"" and ""Tolomeo"". The opera fell into neglect after the 1728 closing of"
"is tormented by remorse and flees to the palace garden, hoping to find a peaceful spot where he can seek solace in sleep (Aria:""""Pastorello d'un povero armento""""). Garibaldo, finding him unprotected, decides to kill him. Bertarido appears and kills the intended assassin; Grimoaldo, however, he spares (Aria:""""Vivi, tiranno!""""). Grimoaldo renounces his claim to the throne of Milan, and pledges himself once again to Eduige. He offers the throne back to Bertarido who accepts it once he is assured that his wife and son will be returned to him. There is general rejoicing. The opera's libretto is by Nicola Francesco Haym,"
"and stabs him to death. Esmeralda and Phoebus are happily reunited. La Esmeralda (ballet) La Esmeralda is a ballet in three acts and five scenes, inspired by the novel ""Notre-Dame de Paris"" by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules Perrot to music by Cesare Pugni, with sets by William Grieve and costumes by Mme. Copère. It was first presented by the Ballet of her Majesty's Theatre, London on 9 March 1844, with Carlotta Grisi as Esmeralda, Jules Perrot as Gringoire, Arthur Saint-Leon as Phoebus, Adelaide Frassi as Fleur de Lys, and Antoine Louis Coulon as Quasimodo. Today the complete ballet"
"Il Trespolo tutore Il Trespolo tutore (""Trespolo the Tutor"") is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Alessandro Stradella with a libretto by Giovanni Cosimo Villifranchi. It was first performed at the Teatro Falcone, Genoa on 30 or 31 January, 1679. It is considered one of the first Italian comic operas. Artemisia is in love with her tutor Trespolo but he is too dull-witted to realise this and is in love with the serving-maid Despina instead. Two brothers, Ciro and Nino, are in love with Artemisia; one of them goes mad and the other, who has been"
"were made by Richard Cocciante, Jannick Top and Serge Perathoner who also worked on the musical direction. ""Belle"" is a romantic song in which the three singers, who respectively portrayed Quasimodo (Garou), Frollo (Daniel Lavoie) and Phoebus (Patrick Fiori), reveal in turn their love for the gypsy Esmeralda, before singing together the last verse. The theme of the song is based in Victor Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris. In chapter VI of the Eighth book ""Trois coeurs d'homme faits différemment"" (Three men's hearts made differently), Phoebus, Frollo et Quasimodo watch Esmeralda who is sentenced to death. Phoebus is with"
"La Esmeralda (ballet) La Esmeralda is a ballet in three acts and five scenes, inspired by the novel ""Notre-Dame de Paris"" by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules Perrot to music by Cesare Pugni, with sets by William Grieve and costumes by Mme. Copère. It was first presented by the Ballet of her Majesty's Theatre, London on 9 March 1844, with Carlotta Grisi as Esmeralda, Jules Perrot as Gringoire, Arthur Saint-Leon as Phoebus, Adelaide Frassi as Fleur de Lys, and Antoine Louis Coulon as Quasimodo. Today the complete ballet is performed only in Russia, Eastern Europe, and in New Jersey,"
"Opera Southwest released the world premiere recording of ""Amleto"". Notes Sources Amleto Amleto is an opera in four acts by Franco Faccio set to a libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". It premiered on 30 May 1865 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and was revised for a La Scala production given on 12 February 1871. The collaboration and friendship between librettist and composer was to last throughout Faccio's lifetime. In addition (as musicologist William Ashbrook states): """"Amleto"" marks an effort of two prominent members of the Scapigliatura (a late Romantic reform movement in northern Italy"
"witness. Campana's final opera ""Esmeralda"", based on Victor Hugo's ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"", premiered in Russia at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Italian Opera on 20 December 1869. The title role had been written expressly for Adelina Patti, but she could not make the Saint Petersburg premiere and the role was sung by Carolina Volpi instead. In June of the following year, it was mounted in London at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden this time with Adelina Patti as Esmeralda. The French journal ""Le Ménestrel"" reporting on the Saint Petersburg premiere praised the opera for its beautiful melodies and orchestration. The"
"world premiere of Beeson's opera), ""Carmen"" (as Escamillo), ""Tosca"" (as Baron Scarpia) (with Plácido Domingo), ""Cavalleria rusticana"" (as Alfio), ""Manon"" (as Lescaut, with Beverly Sills), conducted by Julius Rudel, ""Gianni Schicchi"" (title role), ""La traviata"" (as Germont), ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" (as Enrico), ""L'heure espagnole"" (Mulateer), ""Roberto Devereux"" (Nottingham), ""La Cenerentola"" (Dandini), ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"" (Figaro), ""Un ballo in maschera"" (Renato), ""Maria Stuarda"" (Talbot), ""Rigoletto"" (title role), ""Don Giovanni"" (title role), directed by Frank Corsaro, ""I puritani"" (Sir Richard Forth), ""Manon Lescaut"" (Lescaut), ""Pagliacci"" ( Tonio), ""Lucrezia Borgia"" (Alfonzo d'Este), ""Andrea Chénier"" (Gerard), ""Falstaff"" (Ford), and ""Attila"" (Ezio). Richard Fredricks"