"which tells the story of wealthy mine-owner Horace Tabor and his second wife Baby Doe Tabor. It was first performed in 1956. In 2001, it was the first opera company in the United States to produce ""Gloriana"" of Elizabeth I by Benjamin Britten. Gioachino Rossini's ""The Barber of Seville"" was performed by the Central City Opera in 2015. Samuel Ramey and Beverly Sills have performed at the opera house. It was noted by Daniel Rule, who managed the Central City Opera company, that 29 of the performers of the Metropolitan Opera in New York had performed at Central City. The"
"Gloria (opera) Gloria is a tragic opera in three acts by Francesco Cilea with an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti. A variation on the Romeo and Juliet story and set in 14th century Siena, the libretto is based on Victorien Sardou's 1874 play ""La Haine"" (""Hatred""). The opera premiered on 15 April 1907 at La Scala conducted by Arturo Toscanini with Solomiya Krushelnytska in the title role. ""Gloria"" was a failure at its premiere when it was withdrawn after two performances and fared little better in the 1932 revised version, although there have been two late 20th century revivals. It"
"Girolamo Graziani Girolamo Graziani (1604 – 12 September 1675), was an Italian poet. Girolamo Graziani () has been one of the most famous poet of 17th century. But his fame didn't survive him. During his life he was appreciated mainly for his epic poems ""La Cleopatra"" (1632) and ""il Conquisto di Granata"" (1650). The latter has been the source for Giacomo Leopardi's ""Consalvo"" (1833). Actually the plot (Love in the imminence of death) and the names of the main characters (Consalvo and Elvira) of Leopardi's ""Consalvo"" seem to come from Graziani's poem. Girolamo Graziani (1604–1675) was born in Pergola, near"
"14th century Siena. Cilea composed ""Gloria"" while staying in the Ligurian seaside town of Varazze, which was to become his home in later life. The opera premiered on 15 April 1907 at La Scala in Milan, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. The title role was sung by Solomiya Krushelnytska, with Pasquale Amato as her brother Folco and Giovanni Zenatello as her lover Lionetto. Despite the distinguished cast and conductor, the premiere was a failure and the opera was withdrawn after two performances. It was revived in Rome and Genoa in 1908 and again in 1909 at the Teatro di San Carlo"
"Giuseppe Gallignani Giuseppe Gallignani (January 9, 1851, Faenza - December 14, 1923, Milan) was an Italian composer, conductor and music teacher. He graduated from Milan Conservatory. Author operas ""Il grillo del focolare"" (1873, one of the ""Christmas stories"" Charles Dickens - the first in the history of opera in the Dickens story), ""Atala"" (1876), ""Nestorius"" (1888) et al., as well as numerous spiritual music. In 1884-1891 musical director of Milan Cathedral. In 1891, on the recommendation of Giuseppe Verdi and Arrigo Boito he was appointed director of the Conservatory of Parma and directed it until 1897. In 1894 had a"
"by Girolamo Graziani"" Other sonnets: ""Main articles and books about Girolamo Graziani:"" Girolamo Graziani Girolamo Graziani (1604 – 12 September 1675), was an Italian poet. Girolamo Graziani () has been one of the most famous poet of 17th century. But his fame didn't survive him. During his life he was appreciated mainly for his epic poems ""La Cleopatra"" (1632) and ""il Conquisto di Granata"" (1650). The latter has been the source for Giacomo Leopardi's ""Consalvo"" (1833). Actually the plot (Love in the imminence of death) and the names of the main characters (Consalvo and Elvira) of Leopardi's ""Consalvo"" seem to"
"Lodovico Graziani Lodovico Graziani (14 November 1820 – 15 May 1885) was an Italian operatic tenor. According to John Warrack and Ewan West, writing in ""The Oxford Dictionary of Opera"": ""His voice was clear and vibrant, but he lacked dramatic gifts."" He is now mainly remembered for having created the role of Alfredo Germont in the world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's ""La traviata"" in 1853. Graziani was born in Fermo, Italy, into a musical family. Three of his brothers also became professional singers, in particular his younger brother Francesco Graziani, who became a well known baritone and spent much of"
"""O mia cuna fiorita"". Lionetto's aria ""Pur dolente son io"" also appears occasionally on tenor recital discs. Notes Sources Gloria (opera) Gloria is a tragic opera in three acts by Francesco Cilea with an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti. A variation on the Romeo and Juliet story and set in 14th century Siena, the libretto is based on Victorien Sardou's 1874 play ""La Haine"" (""Hatred""). The opera premiered on 15 April 1907 at La Scala conducted by Arturo Toscanini with Solomiya Krushelnytska in the title role. ""Gloria"" was a failure at its premiere when it was withdrawn after two performances"
"The Gondoliers The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 performances (at that time the fifth longest-running piece of musical theatre in history), closing on 30 June 1891. This was the twelfth comic opera collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan. The story of the opera concerns the young bride of the heir to the throne of the fictional kingdom of Barataria who arrives in Venice to join her"
"Zoraida di Granata Zoraida di Granata (also Zoraide di Granata or Zoraïda di Granata) is a ""melodramma eroico"" (""opera seria"" or 'heroic' opera), in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto had been partly prepared Bartolomeo Merelli (about whose tardiness the composer complained), based on the French play, ""Gonzalve de Cordoue ou Grenade Reconquise"" by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1791), and on a libretto by Luigi Romanelli to an opera by Nicolini called ""Abenamet e Zoraide"". When Donizetti arrived in Rome, carrying a letter of introduction from his teacher and mentor Johann Simon Mayr to poet and librettist Jacopo"
"while in New York City, he headed the Italian Symphony Orchestra. Floridia died in Harkness Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in 1932. Pietro Floridia Pietro Floridia (5 May 1860 in Modica – 16 August 1932 in New York City) was an Italian composer of classical music. According to David Johnson (quoting the notes, by Luigi della Croce, to the Bongiovanni recording of Floridia's Symphony and other works), Floridia was born in Modica, Sicily, and studied in Naples, where he created his first opera, ""Carlotta Clepier"". He later destroyed the score of this work and entered further studies. He wrote"
"Gloriana (novel) Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen is an award-winning work of literary fantasy by British novelist Michael Moorcock. It was first published in 1978 (London: Allison & Busby) and has remained in print ever since. On the novel's title page and on its original cover, Moorcock calls ""Gloriana"" a romance and, indeed, its setting and characters resemble those of that popular literary genre of the Medieval and Renaissance periods—an imagined time of quests, jousts, and masques. Moorcock based his novel on elements of Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"", an allegorical epic poem of the 1590s that praises Queen Elizabeth"
"additional six pieces on CDs 3 (part) and 4. Notes Cited sources Other sources Zoraida di Granata Zoraida di Granata (also Zoraide di Granata or Zoraïda di Granata) is a ""melodramma eroico"" (""opera seria"" or 'heroic' opera), in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto had been partly prepared Bartolomeo Merelli (about whose tardiness the composer complained), based on the French play, ""Gonzalve de Cordoue ou Grenade Reconquise"" by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1791), and on a libretto by Luigi Romanelli to an opera by Nicolini called ""Abenamet e Zoraide"". When Donizetti arrived in Rome, carrying a letter of"
"Alahor in Granata Alahor in Granata is an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to an anonymous Italian libretto (indicated only with the initials ""M.A."") after Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's text ""Gonzalve de Cordoue, ou Granade reconquise"" (1793). However, it seems that the original basis of the libretto goes back to one by Felice Romani written for Meyerbeer in 1821, which in turn can be traced back through another iteration to begin with the de Florian version. While Donizetti was spending most of 1825/26 in Palermo as musical director of the Teatro Carolino, ""Alahor in Granata"" was written to"
"Griselda (Antonio Maria Bononcini) Griselda is an opera (""dramma per musica"") in three acts composed by Antonio Maria Bononcini. The opera uses a slightly revised version of the 1701 Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno that was based on Giovanni Boccaccio's ""The Decameron"" (X, 10, ""The Patient Griselda""). The opera was dedicated to Prince Maximilian Karl von Löwenstein, the Austrian governor of Milan, who died during the opera's world première on 26 December 1718 at the Teatro Regio Ducal in Milan. Nevertheless, Bononcini's opera was well received and enjoyed several revivals during the eighteenth century. His brother, Giovanni Bononcini, wrote an"
"""Gloria"" soon fell into obscurity once again. There were, however, two late 20th century revivals. In 1969, the opera was broadcast on radio in its entirety for the first time. Fernando Previtali conducted the RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Turin. The title role was sung by Margherita Roberti with Flaviano Labò as Lionetto. In 1997, ""Gloria"" was performed outdoors at the San Gimignano Festival using the medieval buildings of the town as sets. Marco Pace conducted the Festival di San Gimignano Orchestra and the Accademia San Felice Chorus, with Fiorenza Cedolins as Gloria and Alberto Cupido as Lionetto.. Teatro"
"(Norina); Gaetano Donizetti ""L’elisir d’amore"" (Adina); Gaetano Donizetti ""Linda di Chamounix"" (Linda); Gaetano Donizetti ""Lucrezia Borgia"" (Lucrezia); Gaetano Donizetti ""Maria di Rohan"" (Maria); Alberto Franchetti ""Cristoforo Colombo"" (Isabella di Aragona, Ikuamota) – opera composed for her voice and interpreted in prima assoluta at Genova, on 6 October 1892; Michail Glinka ""Ivan Susanin"" (Vania) – opera interpreted in première for France, at Nice in 1890; Carlos Gomes ""Condor"" (Odalea) – opera composed for her voice and interpreted in prima assoluta at Teatro alla Scala of Milan on 21 February 1891; Carlos Gomes ""I Guarany"" (Cecilia); Charles Gounod ""Faust"" (Marguérite); Charles Gounod"
"proved to be Cilea's last staged opera. In the 43 years following the premiere of ""Gloria"" he worked on two or three further operas which were never performed and continued to compose chamber and orchestral music. Like Cilea's earlier operas, ""L'arlesiana"" (1897) and ""Adriana Lecouvreur"" (1902), ""Gloria"" takes its title from its female protagonist and is based on a French play. This time, Arturo Colautti, who had also written the libretto for ""Adriana Lecouvreur"", based the libretto on Victorien Sardou's ""La Haine"" (""Hatred""), a tragic tale of two lovers caught up in the conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines in"
"significant series of concerts to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Palestrina, provocando, fra l'altro, una violenta reazione. In 1923, refusing to join the National Fascist Party, he was accused of embezzling public money and commits suicide. Giuseppe Gallignani Giuseppe Gallignani (January 9, 1851, Faenza - December 14, 1923, Milan) was an Italian composer, conductor and music teacher. He graduated from Milan Conservatory. Author operas ""Il grillo del focolare"" (1873, one of the ""Christmas stories"" Charles Dickens - the first in the history of opera in the Dickens story), ""Atala"" (1876), ""Nestorius"" (1888) et al., as well"
"singing. His most notable pupil was the dramatic tenor, Giovanni Battista De Negri, who became a famous interpreter of Verdi's Otello. Carlo Guasco died in Solero on 13 December 1876 at the age of 63. Carlo Guasco Carlo Guasco (16 March 1813 – 13 December 1876) was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor who sang in Italian and other European opera houses from 1837 to 1853. Although he sang in many world premieres, he is most remembered today for having created the leading tenor roles in Verdi's ""I Lombardi alla prima crociata"", ""Ernani"", and ""Attila"". Carlo Guasco was born in Solero,"
"Doria (opera) Doria, ou La tyrannie détruite (""Doria, or Tyranny Destroyed"") is an opera in three acts by the French composer Étienne Méhul. It is in the form of an ""opéra comique"" (that is, with spoken dialogue between the musical numbers), although the authors style it an ""opéra héroïque"". It premiered at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 12 March 1795. The libretto is by Gabriel-Marie Legouvé and Charles-Joseph Lœuillard Davrigny. The work was not a success, in spite of revisions after the premiere. Andrea Doria laments the oppression of his native Genoa under its foreign governor. He plans a conspiracy with"
"Giovanna Gray Giovanna Gray is a tragic opera () in three acts composed by Nicola Vaccai. The libretto by Carlo Pepoli is based on the last days of the English noblewoman Lady Jane Grey who was executed for treason in 1554. The opera premiered on 23 February 1836 at La Scala, Milan, with Maria Malibran in the title role. It was a failure at its premiere, and the work never entered the repertoire. Malibran's performances in ""Giovanna Gray"" were the last time she appeared on the stage of La Scala. ""Giovanna Gray"" marked Vaccai's return to opera composing after a"
"Griselda (Vivaldi) Griselda () is a dramma per musica in three acts that was composed by Antonio Vivaldi. The opera uses a revised version of the 1701 Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno that was based on Giovanni Boccaccio's ""The Decameron"" (X, 10, ""The Patient Griselda""). The celebrated Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni was hired to adapt the libretto for Vivaldi. The opera was first performed in Venice at the Teatro San Samuele on 18 May 1735. Michael Talbot notes that ""the particular fame of this opera arises from the fact that it involved a collaboration with Goldoni,"" although one which was"
"1669 (by the actress Domenica Costantini). Several theatre scholars have suggested that the libretto, along with Parigi's stage designs, may also have been a key source for Ben Jonson's 1631 masque, ""Chloridia"". Of Gagliano's 14 published operas, only ""La Dafne"" (1608) and ""La Flora"" have extant scores. Several arias from ""La Flora"" have since been published separately and are still performed as concert pieces including ""Lamento di Clori"" (Clori's Lament, composed by Peri); Corilla's aria ""Io era pargoletta"" (I was a little child); and Mercury's lullaby ""Dormi, Amore"" (Sleep, Amor). Ezio Pinza, who performed ""Dormi, Amore"" in several concerts and"
"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"
"(1855), and Rossini's ""Otello"" (1855). Eugenio Cavallini Eugenio Cavallini (16 June 1806 — 11 April 1881) was an Italian conductor, composer, violinist, and violist. In 1833 he became first violinist of the orchestra at La Scala, a post he held through 1855. He also served as a conductor at La Scala, notably leading the world premieres of Gaetano Donizetti's ""Lucrezia Borgia"" (1833), Donizetti's ""Gemma di Vergy"" (1834), Donizetti's ""Maria Stuarda"" (1835), Saverio Mercadante's ""Il giuramento"" (1837), Mercadante's ""Il bravo"" (1839), Giuseppe Verdi's ""Oberto"" (1839), Verdi's ""Un giorno di regno"" (1840), Donizetti's ""Maria Padilla"" (1841), Verdi's ""Nabucco"" (1842), Verdi's ""I Lombardi"
"built a mausoleum in his memory, decorated with scenes from the myth of Orpheus. Operas Other works Voice and piano Francesco Cilea Francesco Cilea (also ""Cilèa""; Palmi, 23 July 1866 – Varazze, 20 November 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas ""L'arlesiana"" and ""Adriana Lecouvreur"". Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea gave early indication of an aptitude for music when at the age of four he heard a performance of Vincenzo Bellini's ""Norma"" and was greatly affected by it. He was sent to study music at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a"
"Il trionfo di Clelia (Gluck) Il trionfo de Clelia (""The Triumph of Cloelia"") is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of a ""dramma per musica"" in three acts. The Italian-language libretto by Pietro Metastasio is based on several semi-legendary narratives concerning the founding of the Roman Republic. The opera premiered on 14 May 1763 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Although rarely performed since then, it was revived in London in 2012 at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio. Gluck's opera was the second setting of Metastasio's libretto. The first was composed by Johann Adolf"
"Isabella Girardeau Isabella Girardeau (née Calliari?; ? – ?) was an Italian operatic soprano who flourished in London, England from 1709 to 1712. Commonly referred to by the opera going public in London as ""La Isabella"", she is best remembered today for creating the role of Almirena in the momentous premiere of George Frideric Handel's ""Rinaldo"" on 24 February 1711 at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket (it later became the ""King's Theatre"" after King George I's accession in 1714) in which she introduced the famous aria ""Lascia ch'io pianga"". She had succeeded Joanna Maria Lindelheim, ""The Baroness"", as one"
"not his own in which Britten was a somewhat dazzled accomplice"". The American public liked it, but the critics did not, and it fell into neglect until interest revived near the end of the composer's life. Britten's subsequent operas range from large-scale works written for full-strength opera companies, to chamber operas for performance by small touring opera ensembles or in churches and schools. In the large-scale category are ""Peter Grimes"" (1945), ""Billy Budd"" (1951), ""Gloriana"" (1953), ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1960) and ""Death in Venice"" (1973). Of the remaining operas, ""The Rape of Lucretia"" (1946), ""Albert Herring"" (1947), ""The Little"
"Gloria (Umberto Tozzi song) ""Gloria"" () is a 1979 love song that became an international hit. The song was originally written and composed in Italian by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi, and afterwards translated to English by Jonathan King. A 1982 cover version by American singer Laura Branigan sold over one million singles in the United States alone. Umberto Tozzi first recorded ""Gloria"" in 1979; that summer the song stayed on the Italian Top-10 chart for sixteen weeks, six of them at number 2. The song stayed four weeks at number 1 in both, Switzerland and – in a translated"
"Alcina Alcina (HWV 34) is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of ""L'isola di Alcina"", an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he acquired the year after during his travels in Italy. Partly altered for better conformity, the story was originally taken from Ludovico Ariosto's ""Orlando furioso"" (like those of the Handel operas ""Orlando"" and ""Ariodante""), an epic poem. The opera contains several musical sequences with opportunity for dance: these were composed for dancer Marie Sallé. ""Alcina"" was composed for Handel's first season at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden"
"and arranging ""Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge"" for full orchestra for the Frederick Ashton ballet ""Le Rêve de Léonor"" (1949), but he later described the teacher–pupil relationship as ""beneficial five per cent to [Britten] and ninety-five per cent to me!"" Throughout the 1950s Britten continued to write operas. ""Billy Budd"" (1951) was well received at its Covent Garden premiere and was regarded by reviewers as an advance on ""Peter Grimes"". ""Gloriana"" (1953), written to mark the coronation of Elizabeth II, had a cool reception at the gala premiere in the presence of the Queen and the British Establishment"