"Associate Director, Esquire Jauchem went on to found The Boston Repertory Theatre (with Sarah Caldwell's assistance) produce, direct and design opera, theater and television. During its 32-year history, the Opera Company of Boston gained international acclaim for its innovative programming. Under the leadership of Caldwell, the company staged the American premieres of such operas as Arnold Schoenberg's ""Moses und Aron"", Sergei Prokofiev's ""War and Peace"", Hector Berlioz' ""Les Troyens"" and ""Benvenuto Cellini"", Luigi Nono's ""Intolleranza 1960"", Alban Berg's ""Lulu"", Roger Sessions' ""Montezuma"", and Peter Maxwell Davies's ""Taverner"" to name just a few. Opera Company of Boston The Opera Company of"
"professional relationship with Verdi from the time of his first opera, ""Oberto"" in 1839, they became a couple by 1847 when they lived together in Paris, then moved to Busetto in 1849, married in 1859, and remained together until the end of her life. Strepponi was born in the city of Lodi in the Lombard region of Italy. She was the oldest child of Rosa Cornalba and Feliciano Strepponi (1797–1832), who was the organist at Monza Cathedral and a moderately successful opera composer, his works having been performed in theatres in Milan, Turin and Trieste. Her first lessons in music"
"life especially considering his contemporary stature as a composer, and the comparatively well-documented period in which he lived. In 1694 he dedicated his Opus 1 to the fellow-Venetian, Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (grand-nephew of Pope Alexander VIII). His first opera, ""Zenobia, regina de Palmireni"", was produced in Venice in 1694. Albinoni was possibly employed in 1700 as a violinist to Charles IV, Duke of Mantua, to whom he dedicated his Opus 2 collection of instrumental pieces. In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. In 1705,"
"the fortunate turn of events (Chorus:""A capir tante dolcezze""). Arminio Arminio (HWV 36) is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel. The libretto is based on a libretto of the same name by Antonio Salvi, which had been set to music by Alessandro Scarlatti. It is a fictionalisation of events surrounding the Germanic leader Arminius, who defeated the Romans under Publius Quinctilius Varus in AD 9, and his wife Thusnelda. The opera was performed for the first time at the Covent Garden Theatre on 12 January 1737. The German-born Handel had brought Italian opera to London stages for the first"
"Carlo di Borgogna Carlo di Borgogna is an Italian opera in three parts composed by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at the Teatro la Fenice, Venice on 21 February 1835. Part One The people of Burgundy have come to greet Carlo “il temerario” (Charles the Bold) from his quelling of the citizens of Liège. Among the girls who are strewing flowers at his feet and presenting him with a crown of laurels is Estella, the daughter of Carlo’s mentor Arnoldo. During this ceremony, it is impossible for the two to hide their feelings"
"look at, Teodata, and presents her to him. So both pairs of lovers will marry, Ugone will go to Britain to take up his position as governor, and Flavio remain faithful to his wife. The German-born Handel, after spending some of his early career composing operas and other pieces in Italy, settled in London, where in 1711 he had brought Italian opera for the first time with his opera ""Rinaldo"". A tremendous success, ""Rinaldo"" created a craze in London for Italian opera seria, a form focused overwhelmingly on solo arias for the star virtuoso singers. In 1719, Handel was appointed"
"in 1733, leaving the bulk of his estate to Francesco Maria. Amongst other things, this included no fewer than eight violins made by Jacob Stainer and three Amatis (Hill 1990, 550, 562n34&43). Back in London in 1733, Veracini appeared in many concerts (Anon. 2011, quoting Hill 1979, 22). In 1735 he composed an opera for the Opera of the Nobility, ""Adriano in Siria"". Francesca Cuzzoni, Antonio Montagnana, Farinelli and Senesino had a role (Burden 2007, 31). George Frederic Handel was present at the premiere in Haymarket Theatre. Charles Jennens liked the opera and ordered a score; Lord Hervey, not known"
"role. Campana died in London at the age of 63. Although his operas are no longer performed, his art songs can be heard on several modern recordings. Campana was born in Livorno and initially studied music there with Bernardo Nucci before going on to further studies at the Naples Conservatory and finally at the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. His first opera ""Caterina di Guisa"", set to a libretto by Felice Romani, premiered while he was still a student. It was first performed on 14 August 1838 at the Teatro degli Avvalorati in Livorno, with Verdi's future wife Giuseppina Strepponi in"
"he married Margherita Rimondi; Antonino Biffi, the ""maestro di cappella"" of San Marco was a witness, and evidently was a friend of Albinoni. Albinoni seems to have no other connection with that primary musical establishment in Venice, however, and achieved his early fame as an opera composer at many cities in Italy, including Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Mantua, Udine, Piacenza, and Naples. During this time he was also composing instrumental music in abundance: prior to 1705, he mostly wrote trio sonatas and violin concertos, but between then and 1719 he wrote solo sonatas and concertos for oboe. Unlike most composers of"
"Feliciano Strepponi Feliciano Cristoforo Bartolomeo Strepponi (26 October 1793 – 13 January 1832) was an Italian composer and conductor. He was born in Lodi and died in Trieste at the age of 38. Amongst his compositions were seven operas which had a modest success in their day. The last one, ""L'Ullà di Bassora"", premiered at La Scala in 1831. He was the father and first teacher of the opera singer Giuseppina Strepponi who later became the second wife of Giuseppe Verdi. Strepponi was born in the northern Italian city of Lodi to Maria (""née"" Destefani) and Giuseppe Strepponi. Although some"
"He visited London and Cross became his mistress. She was paid £500 as ""a present"" although she expected more. The Czar replied that he thought her overpaid. Later that same year she went to France with a ""certain baronet"". In 1705 Thomas Clayton opened ""Arsinoe"" which was said to be the first English Opera designed ""in the Italian style"". Cross who had only recently returned to Drury Lane was amongst its principal players. The following month she was in ""Florimel"" and ""The Tender Husband"" in April. In 1706 she married Peter Weir but he was soon killed in Flanders. Cross"
"time on 28 August 1736 at festivities in Vienna for the birthday of Elisabeth Christine, wife of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. At that performance it was set to music by Antonio Caldara. A second setting by Niccolò Jommellis was written in Venice in 1749 - this was highly esteemed by Metastasio himself, as was a setting by Johann Adolph Hasse for the Dresden opera in 1751 in which Hasse's wife Faustina Bordoni played Mandane. Gioacchino Cocchi composed a setting for a London premiere in 1759 - it was considered his best Italian opera. A German translation of the libretto"
"article by Stendhal, she wrote her famous memoir entitled ""Cenni di una donna già cantante sopra il Maestro Rossini..."", which includes an account of the première of ""The Barber of Seville"". Geltrude Righetti Geltrude Righetti (1793–1862) was an Italian contralto closely associated with the operas of Gioachino Rossini. (Her name is also sometimes given as Giorgi-Righetti or Righetti-Giorgi, Giorgi being the name of her husband.) Born in Bologna, she also studied and made her debut there in 1814. The following year she created the important role of Rosina in ""The Barber of Seville"" and in 1817 she was the first"
"creating the role of Dandini for him in ""La cenerentola"". This opera premiered in Rome on 25 January 1817 and ran for twenty consecutive performances; it was to remain in his repertory for the rest of his life. That same year while in Verona, the de Begnis couple met a very young Donizetti. In the course of time his voice matured and his technique became more sophisticated and as early as 1821 he was described as baritone. In 1818, for the grand inauguration of the newly built Teatro Nuovo in Pesaro, Rossini wanted Isabella Colbran and Andrea Nozzari—who had appeared"
"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"
"melodramatic. Operas Keyboard, small ensemble, vocal music Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini Maria Teresa Agnesi (; October 17, 1720 – January 19, 1795) was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving compositions were written for keyboard, the voice, or both. Maria Teresa was born in Milan to Pietro Agnesi, an overbearing man in the lesser nobility. He provided early education for both Maria Teresa and her more famous older sister, Maria Gaetana, a mathematics and language prodigy who lectured and debated all over"
"Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis (born Giuseppina Ronzi; Milan 11 January 1800 – died, Florence, 7 June 1853) was an Italian soprano opera singer famous for the roles written for her by the prominent composers of the 1820s and 1830s. Her father, Gaspare, was a prominent ballet dancer and choreographer, and her mother, Antonia, a ballerina. Her brothers Stanislao and Pollione were opera singers. As a singer, she made her debut in Naples at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in 1814 in Giovanni Cordella's ""L'Avaro"", followed by important engagements in Bologna in 1816, also appearing in Genoa, Florence;"
"Girolamo Crescentini Girolamo Crescentini (Urbania, 2 February 1762 – Naples 24 April 1846) was a noted Italian singer castrato (sopranista), a singing teacher and a composer. He studied in Bologna with the noted teacher Lorenzo Gibelli and made his debut in 1783, quite advanced in years as a castrato. After an unlucky stay in London in 1785, where he did not win much approbation, on his getting back to Italy, he took part in Naples, very successfully, to a revival of Guglielmi’s opera ""Enea e Lavinia"", together with the already famous tenor Giacomo Davide, who shared Crescentini’s artistic inclinations. Thenceforwards,"
"in the opera houses. In 1753, when he was about seventeen, Tenducci made his professional opera debut in Venice, as Gasparo in Ferdinando Bertoni's ""Ginevra"". In 1757 and 1758 he was active at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. From 1758 to 1765 he was in London, where he was heard at both the King's Theatre and the Royal Opera House. He then sang in Ireland, Scotland and Italy. In 1765 in Dublin he met Dorothea Maunsell, whom he married in 1766. In 1768 he returned to London from Edinburgh, where he remained for almost the rest of his"
"main theorbist, Orazio Clementi. At the 1706 carnival he made his debut as an opera composer with ""Cleotide"", and in 1713 was appointed as a court composer. In 1708, with the death of Clementi, Conti was promoted senior theorbist, a position he held until 1726. In the same year he was elected a member of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna and in 1711 he was appointed ""vice-Kapellmeister"" (""vice-maestro di cappella"") in Vienna. In April of that year, after the death of his first wife, Theresia Kugler, Conti remarried to the prima donna Maria Landini, at that time the highest-paid singer"
"to leave for Rome to stay a year before returning to marry Fanny. Adelson e Salvini Adelson e Salvini (""Adelson and Salvini"") is a three-act opera ""semi-seria"" composed by Vincenzo Bellini from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. The opera was based on the 1772 novel ""Épreuves du Sentiment"" by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud, and it draws on a previously performed French play of 1803 by Prospère Delamare. Bellini's first opera was written as his final project at the Naples San Sebastiano Conservatory, when the composer was 23 years old. It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce promising"
"for music. In 1812 (aged 19), he conducted the ""Te Deum"" at the Lodi Cathedral celebrating the return of Napoleon Bonaparte. That year he met Rosa Cornalba (1793–1870), a native of Lodi who came from a family of modest shopkeepers and artisans distantly related to the noble Barberini family. They married on 3 November 1814 to an organ accompaniment composed by Strepponi's brother Francesco. Giuseppina, the first of their six children (four of whom survived to adulthood), was born on 9 September 1815. In 1820 Strepponi received his diploma from the Milan Conservatory winning a special prize in composition. His"
"on condition that her father gives his consent. Teseo reveals that Minos himself is Arianna's father, whereupon Minos happily gives the couple his blessing. Arianna and Teseo joyfully celebrate their love. Inside the palace, a double betrothal is announced - the hero Teseo will marry his Arianna and Alceste has now been accepted by Carilda. All celebrate the fortunate turn of events. The German-born Handel, after spending some of his early career composing operas and other pieces in Italy, settled in London, where in 1711 he had brought Italian opera for the first time with his opera ""Rinaldo"". A tremendous"
"maschera"", ""Orfeo ed Euridice"", ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Rigoletto"" (with Cornell MacNeil) and ""La forza del destino"" (with Eileen Farrell and Richard Cassilly). In 1964, in failing health, Cellini conducted for the last time (""Aïda""). He died on March 25, 1967 (Holy Saturday), in New Orleans at the age of 54, and is buried in Metairie Cemetery. In 2004 his widow, Giuseppina ""Pinuccia,"" moved from New Orleans to Tennessee; she died in 2015. Renato Cellini Renato Cellini (; April 24, 1912 – March 25, 1967) was an Italian opera conductor. His father was Ezio Cellini, who was a stage director who worked"
"Arminio Arminio (HWV 36) is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel. The libretto is based on a libretto of the same name by Antonio Salvi, which had been set to music by Alessandro Scarlatti. It is a fictionalisation of events surrounding the Germanic leader Arminius, who defeated the Romans under Publius Quinctilius Varus in AD 9, and his wife Thusnelda. The opera was performed for the first time at the Covent Garden Theatre on 12 January 1737. The German-born Handel had brought Italian opera to London stages for the first time in 1711 with his opera ""Rinaldo"". An enormous"
"Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (; 29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces. He was a precocious composer of operas, and he made his debut at age 18 with ""La cambiale di matrimonio"". His best-known operas include the Italian comedies ""The Barber of Seville"" (""Il barbiere di Siviglia""), ""The Italian Girl in Algiers"" (""L'italiana in Algeri""), and ""Cinderella"" (""La Cenerentola""). He also wrote a string of serious operas in Italian, including works such as ""Tancredi"", ""Otello"", and ""Semiramide"". ""The Thieving"
"to Warsaw and Paris at a salary of 28,000 francs. He composed a bridal march for Napoleon's wedding to Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (a religious ceremony that took place on 2 April 1810). In 1809 he composed his most famous opera, ""Agnese"", a ""dramma semiserio per musica"" in two acts. Its success spread throughout Europe, and it was performed at the most important theatres (Milan, Naples, Rome, Vienna, London and Paris). It had a deep influence on the following generations of composers and aroused the admiration of many celebrated musicians and musical critics such as Stendhal, Berlioz, Castil-Blaze and"
"age of 20 had already sung at both La Scala and La Fenice. She went on to sing throughout Italy as well as in Germany, Austria, Portugal, Russia, the Netherlands, Ireland and England. She had a great success in ""The Magic Flute"" and ""Così fan tutte"" at London's King's Theatre, where she appeared between 1811 and 1812. In 1801, she married the violinist and composer Felice Radicati (1775-1823) whom she had met in Turin, and the couple travelled throughout Europe together. Radicati composed several works for his wife's voice, including his opera ""Fedra"", which Bertinotti sang in her first season"
"Teresina Brambilla Teresina (Teresa) Brambilla (15 April 1845 – 1 July 1921) was an Italian soprano who sang in the major opera houses of Europe in a career spanning 25 years. She was particularly noted for her interpretations of the leading roles in operas by Amilcare Ponchielli whom she married in 1874. Brambilla was born in Cassano d'Adda to a musical family. Her five aunts were all opera singers, three of whom (Marietta, Teresa, and Giuseppina Brambilla) had prominent careers. According to some accounts, she was trained in singing by Marietta and Teresa, and to others, by Giuseppina. She made"
"and Cleofide to live together undisturbed and requests Poro's hand in friendship. All celebrate the fortunate outcome of events. The German-born Handel, after spending some of his early career composing operas and other pieces in Italy, settled in London, where in 1711 he had brought Italian opera for the first time with his opera ""Rinaldo"". A tremendous success, ""Rinaldo"" created a craze in London for Italian opera seria, a form focused overwhelmingly on solo arias for the star virtuoso singers. In 1719, Handel was appointed music director of an organisation called the Royal Academy of Music (unconnected with the present"
"of ""Guglielmo Tell"", the third act of ""Otello"", and all of ""il Barbiere di Siviglia"" will certainly endure."" Texts, books Sheet music Performances Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (; 29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces. He was a precocious composer of operas, and he made his debut at age 18 with ""La cambiale di matrimonio"". His best-known operas include the Italian comedies ""The Barber of Seville"" (""Il barbiere di Siviglia""), ""The Italian Girl in Algiers"" (""L'italiana in Algeri""), and"
"in 1845 and sang in some of the earliest performances of four of his other operas: Griselda in ""I Lombardi alla prima crociata, ""Elvira in ""Ernani"", Odabella in ""Attila"", and Lady Macbeth in ""Macbeth"". She in turn was admired by Verdi's wife, Giuseppina Strepponi, who termed her ""one of the greatest talents we possess"". In 1844 she sang in the Vienna premiere of ""Ernani"" after which, the composer heard (much to his annoyance) that she had substituted her Act I cavatina, ""Ernani! Ernani, involami"" with Giselda's cavatina ""Non fu sogno"" from ""I Lombardi alla prima crociata"". Nevertheless, the Vienna premiere"
"and other pieces in Italy, settled in London, where in 1711 he had brought Italian opera for the first time with his opera ""Rinaldo"". An enormous success, ""Rinaldo"" created a craze in London for Italian ""opera seria"", a form focused overwhelmingly on solo arias for the star virtuoso singers. Handel had presented new operas in London for years with great success. One of the major attractions in Handel's operas was the star ""castrato"" Senesino, whose relationship with the composer was often stormy and who eventually left Handel's company to appear with the rival Opera of the Nobility, set up in"