"to attend her Vocal Arts Institute in Israel, over three successive summers where she learned how to play several leading roles including Norina in ""Don Pasquale"" and Musetta in ""La Boheme."" She was also the recipient of a Metropolitan Opera study grant. The Canadian Opera Company's artistic director, the late Richard Bradshaw scouted Azrieli, starting her career as a professional opera singer. Barshaw hired her as an understudy for the part of Juliet in a mainstage production of Gounod's ""Roméo et Juliete"", and later as Mimi in a small-stage production of Puccini's ""La Bohème"". Artist manager Matthew Laifer spotted Azrieli's"
"Maestri as Scarpia. James Conlon conducted. In San Francsisco, Carlo Montanaro conducted Bohème with Erika Grimaldi and Julie Adams sharing the role of Mimi, Ellie Dehn as Musetta, Arturo Chacón-Cruz as Rodolfo and Audun Iversen as Marcello. The same production of ""Bohème"" will be revived at Houston Grand Opera in the autumn of 2018 with James Lowe conducting, Nicole Heaston as Mimi, Ivan Magri as Rodolfo, Michael Sumuel as Marcello and Pureum Jo as Musetta. Caird’s adaptation of Bernstein’s musical ""Candide"", originally written and staged for the National Theatre in London in 1999, is increasingly being used by opera companies,"
"Giovanni"", Pamina in ""Die Zauberflöte"", Fiordiligi in ""Così fan tutte"", Cio-Cio-San in ""Madama Butterfly"", Angelica in ""Suor Angelica"", Leïla in ""Les pêcheurs de perles"", Violetta in ""La traviata"", Marguerite in ""Faust"", the Countess in ""The Marriage of Figaro"", Amelia Grimaldi (Maria Boccanegra) in ""Simon Boccanegra"", Marenka in ""The Bartered Bride"", The Mother in ""Amahl and the Night Visitors"", and Mimi and Musetta in ""La bohème"". Her vast opera repertoire also includes Nedda in ""Pagliacci"", Donna Anna in ""Don Giovanni"", Lauretta in ""Gianni Schicchi"", Despina in ""Così fan tutte"", Susanna in ""The Marriage of Figaro"", Micaëla in ""Carmen"", Antonia in ""Les"
"varied introductory response, the opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo (14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna (4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo); The Teatro Costanzi (17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello); La Scala (15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello);"
"as the Duke of Mantua. Other productions that first season included Puccini's ""La bohème"" (with Rosanna Carteri as Mimì, Jan Peerce as Rodolfo, and Virginia MacWatters as Musetta), ""Faust"" (with Robert Rounseville in the title role, Nicola Moscona as Méphistophélès, and Ellen Faull as Marguerite), Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"" (with Licia Albanese as Cio-cio-san, Walter Fredericks as Pinkerton, Margaret Roggero as Suzuki, and Cesare Bardelli as Sharpless), Italo Montemezzi's ""L'amore dei tre re"" (with Beverly Sills as Fiora and Ramón Vinay as Avito), ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"" (with MacWatters as Rosina, Guarrera as Figaro, and Cesare Valletti as Almaviva), ""Cavalleria rusticana"""
"composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Giovanni Pacini, Saverio Mercadante, Nicola Vaccai, and Pietro Antonio Coppola which took place at La Scala on 17 March 1837. Marietta Brambilla Marietta Brambilla (6 June 1807 – 6 November 1875) was an Italian contralto who sang leading roles in the opera houses of Europe from 1827 until her retirement from the stage in 1848. She is best known today for having created the roles of Maffio Orsini in Donizetti's ""Lucrezia Borgia"" and Pierotto in his ""Linda di Chamounix"", but she also created several other roles in lesser-known works. She was the elder sister of the"
"Marietta Brambilla Marietta Brambilla (6 June 1807 – 6 November 1875) was an Italian contralto who sang leading roles in the opera houses of Europe from 1827 until her retirement from the stage in 1848. She is best known today for having created the roles of Maffio Orsini in Donizetti's ""Lucrezia Borgia"" and Pierotto in his ""Linda di Chamounix"", but she also created several other roles in lesser-known works. She was the elder sister of the opera singers Teresa and Giuseppina Brambilla and the aunt of Teresina Brambilla who was also an opera singer. Brambilla was born in Cassano d'Adda,"
"Massenet's ""Grisélidis"". Camilla Pasini Camilla Pasini (6 November 1875 – 29 November 1935) was an Italian operatic soprano. Her sister Lina Pasini-Vitale was a well known Wagnerian soprano and her other sister, Enrica Pasini, had a short career as an operatic mezzo-soprano. Pasini studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and made her professional opera debut in that city at the Teatro Quirino as Inez in Meyerbeer's ""L'Africaine"". She most notably originated the role of Musetta in the original 1896 production of Puccini's ""La bohème"" at the Teatro Regio in Turin. She also sang that role at"
"in Giacomo Puccini's ""La bohème"", and she sang this part with great success at the Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Comunale di Bologna and, notably, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1935. At La Scala Mirella also appeared in the 1940/1941 season in Richard Strauss's opera ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"". Outside Italy, she made appearances at the Teatro Liceo in Barcelona (in 1929, as Musetta, Micaëla in Bizet's ""Carmen"", Nedda in Ruggero Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"" as well as in parts in Russian operas), Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon (in 1926, as Musetta and Micaëla)"
"on 16 June 1896. The opera was given in Alexandria, Lisbon, and Moscow in early 1897. The United Kingdom premiere took place at the Theatre Royal in Manchester, on 22 April 1897, in a presentation by the Carl Rosa Opera Company supervised by Puccini. This performance was given in English and starred Alice Esty as Mimì, Bessie McDonald as Musetta, Robert Cunningham as Rodolfo, and William Paull as Marcello. On 2 October 1897 the same company gave the opera's first staging at the Royal Opera House in London and on 14 October 1897 in Los Angeles for the opera's United"
"Filippo Marchetti Filippo Marchetti (26 February 1831, Bolognola, Macerata – 18 January 1902, Rome) was an Italian opera composer. After studying in Naples, his first opera was ""successfully premiered"" in Turin in 1856. With only limited success, he became a teacher of singing and composition in Rome before composing ""Romeo e Giulietta"" for a premiere in Trieste in 1865. Overshadowed like other Italian opera composers of his period by the genius of Verdi, Marchetti achieved one great success with his 1869 opera - ""Ruy Blas"" - which was based on Victor Hugo's play, ""Ruy Blas"". It has been noted that"
"Marcello, and Cesare Sodero conducting. She remained at the Met for the next 8 years, performing such roles as Ellen in ""Lakmé"", the High Priestess in ""Aida"", Frasquita, Marzelline in ""Fidelio"", Nannetta in ""Falstaff"", Nella in ""Gianni Schicchi"", Oscar in ""Un ballo in maschera"", Poussette in ""Manon"", Stéphano in ""Roméo et Juliette"", Susanna, Xenia in ""Boris Godunov"", and Zerlina in ""Don Giovanni"". Her final performance at the Met was on February 7, 1950 as Musetta with Bidu Sayão as Mimì, Giuseppe Di Stefano as Rodolfo, Frank Valentino as Marcello, and Giuseppe Antonicelli conducting. In 1954 Greer joined the voice faculty"
"the Metropolitan Opera in 1970, in ""La traviata"", and went on to appear in ""La bohème"" (as Musetta, with Montserrat Caballé, Franco Corelli, and Matteo Manuguerra), ""Tosca"", ""Les vêpres siciliennes"" (in John Dexter's production, with Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, and Paul Plishka, conducted by James Levine), and ""Salome"" (with Astrid Varnay, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf). On March 15, 1977, Niska sang Musetta in ""La bohème"", for the first of the series, ""Live From the Met,"" with Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti. She then sang ""Pagliacci"" with the company. Her final performance with the Met was on their 1978 tour to Wolf"
"Camilla Pasini Camilla Pasini (6 November 1875 – 29 November 1935) was an Italian operatic soprano. Her sister Lina Pasini-Vitale was a well known Wagnerian soprano and her other sister, Enrica Pasini, had a short career as an operatic mezzo-soprano. Pasini studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and made her professional opera debut in that city at the Teatro Quirino as Inez in Meyerbeer's ""L'Africaine"". She most notably originated the role of Musetta in the original 1896 production of Puccini's ""La bohème"" at the Teatro Regio in Turin. She also sang that role at numerous other"
"""it was one of the first Italian operas to show the influence of French grand opera, partly, no doubt in response to its French source"". The opera was performed into the 20th Century. Filippo Marchetti Filippo Marchetti (26 February 1831, Bolognola, Macerata – 18 January 1902, Rome) was an Italian opera composer. After studying in Naples, his first opera was ""successfully premiered"" in Turin in 1856. With only limited success, he became a teacher of singing and composition in Rome before composing ""Romeo e Giulietta"" for a premiere in Trieste in 1865. Overshadowed like other Italian opera composers of his"
"Mimì, Jan Peerce as Rodolfo, Frank Valentino as Marcello, and Gaetano Merola conducting. She sang several more performances with the SFO that year, portraying Elena in Boito's ""Mefistofele"" and Nedda in ""Pagliacci"". Fenn made her first opera appearance in New York with the New York City Opera on March 28, 1953 as Musetta. The production also notably marked Norman Treigle's first performance with the company in the role of Colline. She later returned to that house in 1955 to sing two roles with the company, Oxana in Tchaikovsky's ""Cherevichki"" (performed under the title ""The Golden Slipper"") and Violetta in Giuseppe"
"Mimi. She created the role of Sardula in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's ""Le dernier sauvage"" at the Paris Opera in 1963. Maliponte has performed on several opera recordings including the role of Micaela on Leonard Bernstein's 1973 recording of Bizet's ""Carmen"" which won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. Adriana Maliponte Adriana Maliponte (born Brescia, 26 December 1938) is an Italian operatic soprano. Born Adriana Macchiaioli, she moved with her family to France at the age of 14. She studied first at the Mulhouse Conservatory and later in Como with Carmen Melis and made her stage"
"Arrighetto Arrighetto is an opera in one act by Carlo Coccia. The Italian-language libretto was by Angelo Anelli, after ""Madonna Beritola"", sixth tale of the second day of the ""Decameron"" by Giovanni Boccaccio. It premiered on 9 January 1813 at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice. The plot is inspired by the tale of Madonna Beritola, told by Emilia in the second day of the ""Decameron"" by Giovanni Boccaccio, with significant variations. In the tale, Giuffredi and Scacciato, the two sons of Arrighetto Capece, nobleman fallen into disfavour and arrested after the fall of the king of Sicily Manfredi, reach adventurously"
"Marta Moretto Marta Moretto is an Italian operatic lyric mezzo-soprano, who was born in Padua. A graduate of the Conservatorio ""Cesare Pollini,"" in her native city, Moretto made her formal debut in 1990, as Maddalena in ""Rigoletto"", in Mexico City. She has appeared in Berlin (Verdi Requiem, 1990), Lucca (Santuzza in ""Cavalleria rusticana"", and Suzuki in ""Madama Butterfly"", 1991), Venice (in Busoni's ""Turandot"", directed by Achim Freyer, 1994, and the Zia Principessa in ""Suor Angelica"", 1996), Savona (Azucena in ""Il trovatore"", 1995), Rouen (Ulrica in ""Un ballo in maschera"", 1996), Marseille and Lyon (Fenena in ""Nabucco"", 1996), Parma (Ortrud in"
"Francesco Manelli Francesco Manelli (Mannelli) ( 1595 – 1667) was a Roman Baroque composer, particularly of opera, and a theorbo player. He is most well known for his collaboration with fellow Roman composer Benedetto Ferrari in bringing commercial opera to Venice. The first two works, in 1637 and 1638, to be put on commercially in the Teatro San Cassiano were both by Manelli - his ""L'Andromeda"" and ""La Maga Fulminata"". Francesco Manelli was for many years confused with the Franciscan friar Giovanni Battista Fasolo, because of the resemblances between Manelli’s cantata ""Luciata"", (published in ""Musiche varie,"" op. 4 Venice, 1636),"
"Mirella Parutto Mirella Parutto (born 1936) is an Italian operatic soprano and later mezzo-soprano. She began her career at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, as Elena in Boito's ""Mefistofele"", in 1958, and the following year, appeared for the first time at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, as Amelia in Verdi's ""Un ballo in maschera"". She then sang widely in Italy, appearing in Florence, Naples, Parma, Genoa, Palermo, Trieste, Venice, Cagliari, Catania, etc. Her roles included Matilde in ""Guglielmo Tell"", Abigail in ""Nabucco"", Leonora in both ""Il trovatore"" and ""La forza del destino"", the title role in ""Aida"", Maddalena in"
"Luigi Marchesi Luigi Marchesi (; 8 August 1754 – 14 December 1829) was an Italian castrato singer, one of the most prominent and charismatic to appear in Europe during the second half of the eighteenth century. Luigi Ludovico Marchesi was born in Milan. He joined the Milan Cathedral choir in 1765 and made his operatic debut in Rome in 1773 at the Teatro delle Dame, cast as a female character, in Marcello da Capua's comic opera ""La contessina"". For several years, Marchesi appeared either in minor roles or minor operatic centers, but he found a valuable ally in the Czech"
"Monetti (actress) – Claudia Mannoni (dancer) – Antonella Loconsole (singer) – Alessandro Vigilante (dancer) – Maria Pia Pizzolla (singer) – Monica Hill (singer) – Renato Sannio (actor) – Paolo Idolo (actor) – Miriam Della Guardia (dancer) – Gianluigi ""Gigi"" Garretta (actor) – Clementina Giacente (dancer) – Micheal Calandra (singer) – Miriam Castorina (singer). Fabio Morici (actor) – Giovanna Martini (actress) – Sara Donadelli (dancer) – Fabio Villanis (singer) – Andrea Veschini (singer) – Antonino Grosso (singer) – Ettore Romano (singer) – Marcella Di Vita (singer) – Francesca Paganucci (singer) – Giacomo Milli (dancer) – Paolo Stella (actor) – Luca Basto"
"Paloma), Mariana (Luisa Fernanda), Nurse (Boris Godunov)… Raquel Pierotti Raquel Pierotti (born December 17, 1952, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in coloratura roles in the Rossini and Handel repertoire. Raquel Pierotti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay where she got her graduation at the National Opera School and made her operatic debut in 1973 as Damigella nuziale in Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro. During the next six years she worked in many operatic productions singing Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto as well as in many chamber and symphonic concerts. She won the First Prize in the"
"Théâtre Feydeau in Paris on 5 June 1789. Mozart contributed a vocal quartet, 'Dite almeno in che mancai?' K479, and a vocal terzet, 'Mandina amabile' K480, for a performance at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1785. (The former work was first heard in public on 5 November, and the latter on 28 November.) The singers involved were Vincenzo Calvesi (Count), Celeste Coltellini (Mandina), Stefano Mandini (Pippo), and Francesco Bussani (Biaggio), the last named in K479 only. The count takes a liking to a young bride, Mandina, at her pre-wedding banquet, lures her away from her bridegroom, Pippo, and then abducts"
"to Armand Tokatyan's Rodolfo. Kirsten opened the PLSOC's 1944–1945 season singing Micaëla in Georges Bizet's ""Carmen"" with Bruna Castagna in the title role. She also toured with company to Cleveland singing Mimì. In February 1946 she traveled with PLSOC to Washington D.C. to perform Marguerite in Charles Gounod's ""Faust"". In December 1949 she recorded ""Manon Lescaut"" with the world-renowned tenor Jussi Björling. Her final year performing with the PLSOC was the 1946–1947 season, portraying Cio-cio-san in ""Madama Butterfly"" and Juliette in ""Roméo et Juliette"". Kirsten debuted at the Metropolitan Opera with the role of Mimi in ""La Boheme"" on December"
"""Manon Lescaut"" (Manon Lescaut) – opera composed for her voice and interpreted in première for Teatro alla Scala of Milan on 27 March 1897; Giacomo Puccini ""La Bohème"" (Mimì) – opera interpreted in première for America at Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires in 1896 and in première for Romania at Bucharest National Theatre on 15 January 1903; Giacomo Puccini ""Tosca"" (Floria Tosca) – opera composed for her voice; the soprano’s aria was requested to Puccini by Hariclea Darclée suggesting the principal musicals elements, too; the opera was interpreted in prima assoluta at Teatro dell’Opera of Rome on 14 January 1900"
"Lescaut in Jules Massenet's ""Manon"", Marcello in ""La bohème"", Nevers in ""Les Huguenots"", Renato in ""Un ballo in maschera"", Riccardo Forth in ""I puritani"", Scarpia in ""Tosca"", Sharpless in ""Madama Butterfly"", Silvio in ""Pagliacci"", Valentin in ""Faust"", Wolfram in ""Tannhäuser"", and the title roles in ""Guillaume Tell"" and ""Rigoletto"". From 1908-1910, Polese was a member of Oscar Hammerstein I's Manhattan Opera Company in New York City and their sister company in Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Opera Company. During that time he was heard at the Manhattan Opera House in New York as Alfio, Amonasro, Enrico, Figaro, Marcello, Nevers, Riccardo, Rigoletto, and"
"Marietta Marcolini Marietta Marcolini (born c. 1780 – 26 December 1855) was an Italian operatic contralto. Marcolini was born in Florence. The date of her stage debut is unknown, but she was appearing in Venice in 1800. She subsequently sang in Naples, Livorno, Pisa, Rome and Milan, singing in the premieres of Pietro Carlo Guglielmi's ""La serva bizzarra"" (Naples 1803), Giacomo Tritto's ""Andromaca e Pirro"" (Rome 1807), Giuseppe Nicolini's ""Traiano in Dacia"" (Rome 1807), Carlo Bigatti's ""L'amante prigioniero"" (Milan 1809) and Ercole Paganini's ""Le rivale generose"" (Milan 1809). Rossini wrote five parts for her between 1811 and 1814 which –"
"scent of desire is all around me, it makes me happy! And you, while knowing, reminding and longing, you shrink from me? I know it very well: you don't want to express your anguish, but you feel as if you're dying!</poem> Quando m'en vo' ""Quando me'n vo' "", also known as ""Musetta's Waltz"", is a soprano aria, a waltz in act two of Puccini's opera ""La bohème"". It is sung by Musetta, in the presence of her bohemian friends, hoping to reclaim the attention of her occasional boyfriend Marcello. This scene takes place at the Cafe Momus. <poem lang=""it"" style=""float:left;"">"
"1931, Desdemona in Verdi's ""Otello"" and Micaela in Bizet's ""Carmen"", both in complete recordings of the operas with Carlo Sabajno conducting the La Scala Orchestra and Chorus. When the ""Otello"" was reissued in 1957, the reviewer in ""The New Records"" wrote, ""Maria Carbone surprised this writer, he had forgotten what a fine singer she was on these discs. Her work in the Love Duet is exquisite, and in the Finale she is superb."" Maria Carbone Maria Carbone (15 June 1908 – 28 December 2002) was an Italian operatic soprano. She created the lead female roles in two of Gian Francesco"
"Micaëla in Bizet's ""Carmen"" at the Teatro Regio di Torino. That same year she sang Gilda from Verdi's ""Rigoletto"" and Marguerite in Gounod's ""Faust"" at the same theater. Over the next four years she appeared in numerous productions in Catania, Genoa, and Venice. She also sang in several productions in France. In 1892 she appeared at the Teatro Carlo Felice as Amelia into Verdi's ""Simon Boccanegra"" and as the title role in Catalani's ""Loreley"" under Arturo Toscanini. On 1 February 1893, Ferrani sang the title role in the world premiere of Puccini's ""Manon Lescaut"" at the Teatro Regio di Torino."
"the première of Rossini's ""Stabat Mater"" and Verdi wrote a new cabaletta for him to sing in the main tenor aria in ""I due Foscari"" for a production in Paris. In established roles, Mario's very greatest performances were as the title character in Rossini's ""Otello"" of the same name, Gennaro in ""Lucrezia Borgia"", Almaviva in ""Il Barbiere di Siviglia"", Fernando in ""La favorite"", the Duke in ""Rigoletto"", Alfredo in ""La traviata"", Manrico in ""Il trovatore"", Lionel in ""Martha"" and many others. The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London and the Théâtre Italien in Paris were the scenes of most"