"Alexander Learmonth (baritone) Alexander Learmonth is an English baritone in opera and concert. Learmonth studied in the choir of New College, Oxford. He completed an opera course at the Advanced Performers Studio in May 2011. His appearances on the opera stage include parts by Mozart, Publio in ""La clemenza di Tito"", the title role in ""Le nozze di Figaro"", and Don Alfonso in ""Così fan tutte"". Learmonth performed the roles of Dandini in Rossini's ""La Cenerentola"", Counsel in Gilbert & Sullivan's ""Trial by Jury"", Colline in Puccini's ""La bohème"" and Simone in his ""Gianni Schicchi"", and the Traveller in Britten's"
"roles has become customary, Mozart was far more general in his own descriptions of the voice types: Fiordiligi (soprano), Dorabella (soprano), Guglielmo (bass), Ferrando (tenor), Despina (soprano), and Don Alfonso (bass). Occasionally these modern voice types are varied in performance practice. Don Alfonso is frequently performed by baritones such as Thomas Allen and Bo Skovhus and Dorabella is almost always performed by a mezzo-soprano. In the ensembles, Guglielmo's music lies lower than Alfonso's, and accordingly has been performed by basses such as James Morris and Wladimiro Ganzarolli, and Despina is occasionally (though far less often than the other three instances"
"""L'elisir d'amore"", and the title role of Donizetti’s ""Don Pasquale"". He has frequently showed his versatility by singing two roles from the same opera: Figaro and the Count in Mozart’s ""Le nozze di Figaro"", Leporello and the title role in Mozart’s ""Don Giovanni"", Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Mozart’s ""Così fan tutte"", and Dandini and Don Magnifico in Rossini’s ""La Cenerentola"", among others. At the Royal Opera House, as of March 2012, Corbelli had taken part in 87 performances since his debut in 1988 (as Taddeo in ""L'Italiana in Algeri""). Corbelli's roles at the Royal Opera House have included Don"
"reported that their critic had been reassured by the company that Mozart's music would remain unaltered and his ""work will not be disparaged by exchanging the glass beads of Da Ponte for a diamond of Shakespeare."" The ""revival"" had its first performance on 31 March 1863, and Marie Cabel sang the role of Rosine (Dorabella in the original, although she also sang the new words to the music of Fiordiligi's aria ""Per pietà""). Adolphe Deloffre was the conductor. Much of Mozart's music had been rearranged to fit the new plot, and the recitatives were replaced with spoken dialogue. Perhaps it"
"Don Carlos Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play ""Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien"" (""Don Carlos, Infante of Spain"") by Friedrich Schiller. In addition, it has been noted by David Kimball that the Fontainebleau scene and auto da fé ""were the most substantial of several incidents borrowed from a contemporary play on Philip II by Eugène Cormon"". The opera is most often performed in Italian translation, usually under the title Don Carlo. The opera's story is based on conflicts in"
"(1746–1825), was an important singing master and composer in Edinburgh. Her cousin Sophia Dussek (née Corri) was a famous soprano. Corri-Paltoni studied singing first with her father and then with Angelica Catalani and John Braham in London. She toured Continental Europe with Catalani in 1815–1816. She was committed to the King's Theatre in London between 1818–1820, making her professional opera debut at the theatre as the Countess in ""Le Nozze di Figaro"" on 17 January 1818. She earned rave reviews in London for her several other portrayals of Mozart heroines, including Donna Anna in ""Don Giovanni"", Dorabella in ""Cosi fan"
"character names, such as ""Don Octave"" and ""Donna Ribalda"", play on the Mozart opera, referring to Don Ottavio and Donna Elvira respectively, while the castanet-clicking ""Carmen Ghia"" plays on the title character of Bizet's opera (and puns on the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia). The ""Commendatoreador"" plays on both operas at once, being a combination of ""Il Commendatore"" and the toreador Escamillo. The orchestral accompaniment for Donna Ribalda's opening aria, ""Let's face it—I'm lost"", resembles the ""Rex tremendae majestatis"" from Mozart's ""Requiem"". At one point in the opera, the rival divas Carmen Ghia and Donna Ribalda break character in the middle of"
"passed up on the formal auditions for the Bavarian State Opera during her summer at Glimmerglass, her audition was requested by Florian Scholz (director of Stadttheater Klagenfurt). Brower joined the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 2009 in its Opera Studio and then from 2010 through 2016 in its ensemble. In 2009, she earned the Munich Opera Festival Prize for her portrayal of Dorabella in Mozart's ""Così fan tutte"". In her performance as Cherubino in his ""Le nozze di Figaro"", she was part of a cast conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin that resulted in a 2017 Grammy Awards nomination in the"
"operatic repertoire extends from 17th century works to the present, Hobson's high lyric tenor voice (he is actually a rare ""haute-contre"" or baroque tenor) is best suited to the baroque and bel canto operas of the 18th and early 19th centuries, such as those composed by Mozart and Rossini. His Mozart roles include Ferrando in ""Così fan tutte"", Don Ottavio in ""Don Giovanni"", Tamino in ""The Magic Flute"" and Belmonte in ""The Abduction from the Seraglio"". His Rossini roles include Lindoro in ""L'italiana in Algeri"", Ramiro in ""La Cenerentola"", Count Almaviva in ""The Barber of Seville"", Dorvil in ""La scala"
"Rossini's ""Il Barbiere di Siviglia"", Dorabella in Mozart's ""Così fan tutte"", Mélisande in Debussy's ""Pelléas et Mélisande"", Meg Page in Verdi's ""Falstaff"", Marcellina in ""The Marriage of Figaro"". She has also appeared at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, La Scala, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, the Cologne Opera the Opéra de Paris and at the Salzburg Festival. Besides the roles she has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, her operatic reportory includes Zerlina in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"", the title role of Rossini's ""La Cenerentola"", Dido in Purcell's ""Dido and Aeneas"", Adalgisa in Bellini's ""Norma"""
"season included debuts with Washington National Opera as Dorabella in Mozart's ""Così fan tutte"", with De Nederlandse Opera as Sesto in Handel's ""Giulio Cesare"", with Opéra National de Paris as Rosina in Rossini's ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"", and with Bavarian State Opera as Cherubino in Mozart's ""Le nozze di Figaro"" under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Also, she returned to the Santa Fe Opera to perform the role of Annio in Mozart's ""La clemenza di Tito"" and made several concert appearances, including those with Riccardo Muti conducting the La Scala Orchestra in Vivaldi's ""Gloria"" and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris's"
"Domenico Mombelli Domenico Mombelli (13 January 1755 – 15 March 1835) was an Italian operatic tenor and composer. Born in Villanova Monferrato, Mombelli was the head of a distinguished family of singers and musicians that included his first wife, Luisa Laschi who created the role of Countess Almaviva in ""The Marriage of Figaro""; his second wife, Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli who wrote the libretto for Rossini's ""Demetrio e Polibio""; and his daughters Ester and Anna, both of whom had successful careers as opera singers. He was also the founder and head of a travelling opera company which performed in Lisbon, Padua, and"
"part of the Squirrel in ""L'enfant et les sortilèges"" in concert with the orchestra and Lorin Maazel. In February 2007, Leonard made her professional operatic stage debut as Stéphano in ""Roméo et Juliette"". In September 2007, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the same role. Leonard made her debut with Santa Fe Opera as Cherubino in 2008. Her commercial recordings include a DVD recording for Euroarts as Dorabella in the 2009 Salzburg Festival production of ""Così fan tutte"". On April 26, 2014, Leonard sang the role of Dorabella in a performance at the Metropolitan Opera that was transmitted worldwide"
"of 106. Her daughter, Fulvia, continued corresponding with Verdi for several years afterwards. In Louise Marley's 2010 novel ""Mozart's Blood"", Saporiti is the main protagonist, turned into a vampire (along with Mozart) during the preparations for ""Don Giovanni""'s premiere. Most of the novel, however, portrays her in the 21st century, and the sections portraying Saporiti's historical career are largely inconsistent with the record. Teresa Saporiti Teresa Saporiti (1763 – 17 March 1869) was an Italian operatic soprano and composer most remembered today for creating the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's opera ""Don Giovanni"". She was born in Milan and"
"Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Symphony, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis, among others. She has sung at the Tanglewood Music Festival as Despina in ""Cosi fan tutte"" by Mozart, and as Tebaldo in ""Don Carlo"" by Verdi, both with conductor James Levine. She has also appeared at the Spoleto Festival USA and at the Wexford Opera Festival. In addition to the baroque and classical repertoire, contemporary works in which Duffy has appeared include ""Neither"" by Morton Feldman at the Wien Modern festival, ""The Ghosts of Versailles"" by John Corigliano, and the American premiere of"
"Don Pasquale Don Pasquale () is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's opera ""Ser Marcantonio"" written in 1810 but, on the published libretto, the author appears as ""M.A."" Donizetti so dominated the preparation of the libretto that Ruffini refused to allow his name to be put on the score. This resulted in confusion over the identity of the librettist for more than half a century, but as Herbert"
"Masters"" (1743) by Carlo Goldoni, the ""Figaro"" plays of Pierre Beaumarchais, and especially ""Love for Three Oranges"", ""Turandot"" and other ""fiabe"" by Carlo Gozzi. Influences appear in the lodgers in Steven Berkoff's adaptation of Franz Kafka's ""The Metamorphosis"". Through their association with spoken theatre and playwrights ""commedia"" figures have provided opera with many of its stock characters. Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"" sets a puppet show story and comic servants like Leporello and Figaro have ""commedia"" precedents. Soubrette characters like Susanna in ""Le nozze di Figaro"", Zerlina in ""Don Giovanni"" and Despina in ""Così fan tutte"" recall Columbina and related characters. The"
"of 1785, Mozart moved away from keyboard writing and began his famous operatic collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. 1786 saw the successful premiere of ""The Marriage of Figaro"" in Vienna. Its reception in Prague later in the year was even warmer, and this led to a second collaboration with Da Ponte: the opera ""Don Giovanni"", which premiered in October 1787 to acclaim in Prague, but less success in Vienna in 1788. The two are among Mozart's most important works and are mainstays of the operatic repertoire today, though at their premieres their musical complexity caused difficulty for both"
"1966, when the new opera house was opened, he appeared as Sarastro in Mozart's ""Die Zauberflöte"", conducted by Wilhelm Schüchter. Morbach was a member of the Staatstheater Braunschweig from 1969 where he stayed until he retired from the stage in 1993. He performed more than 180 roles, of comic as well as serious characters. In the German repertoire, he was known for Don Alfonso in his ""Così fan tutte"", Rocco in Beethoven's ""Fidelio"", van Bett in Lortzing's ""Zar und Zimmermann"", Baculus in his ""Der Wildschütz"", Daland in Wagner's ""Der fliegende Holländer"", König Heinrich in his ""Lohengrin"", Hunding in his ""Die"
"Minkowski; at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Cherubino in Mozart's ""Le nozze di Figaro""; at the Dutch National Opera as Cleopatra in Handel's ""Giulio Cesare""; and at the Salzburg Festival as Zerlina in Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"" under Nicolaus Harnoncourt. She sang the centenary performance of ""Pelléas et Mélisande"" at the Opéra-Comique in Paris under Minkowski and most recently Cleopatra in ""Giulio Cesare"" under Minkowski. Recent engagements include the roles of Idamante in Mozart's ""Idomeneo"" at the Glyndebourne and Salzburg Festivals, Cherubino for both the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Dorabella in Mozart's ""Cosi fan"
"""Difference / Repetition""). Martina Koppelstetter Martina Koppelstetter is a German mezzo-soprano in opera and concert. She is particularly interested in contemporary music. Born in Lower Bavaria, she enrolled at the Musikhochschule München in 1983, graduating with distinction in 1990. She made her debuts in Frankfurt and Munich under Enoch zu Guttenberg and performed at venues such as the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck and the Stadttheater Hildesheim. She was a member of the ensemble of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich from 2003 to 2007, where she appeared as Dorabella in Mozart's ""Così fan tutte"", Lola in ""Cavalleria rusticana"", as Tisbe in"
"Drottningholm Palace Theatre she sang the role of Linnaeus's Daughter ""Lisa Stina"" in Jonas Forssell’s ""The Garden"". Tove Dahlberg's repertoire as concert and oratory singer includes Mozart's ""Great Mass in C minor"" and ""Requiem"", Bach's ""Christmas Oratorio"", ""Mass in B minor"" and ""St John Passion"", Rossini's and Pergolesi's ""Stabat mater"" and Vivaldi's ""Gloria"". Both the French music television channel Mezzo and SVT have shown the Lyon Opera production of Mozart's ""Cosi fan tutte"" with Dahlberg in the role of ""Dorabella"". On the BBC music channel Radio 3 she has participated in a number of solo performances. She was also one"
"John Forsell Carl Johan Jacob Forsell (6 November 1868 – 30 May 1941), known as John Forsell, was a prominent Swedish baritone, opera administrator and teacher of voice. He was the leading baritone of the Royal Swedish Opera (RSO) from 1896–1918, and thereafter sang roles periodically with the company until his last stage performance in 1938. From 1923-1939 he served as the director of the RSO. He also sang leading roles as a guest artist with opera companies internationally, drawing particular acclaim for his portrayal of the title character in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"". In 1899, Forsell was awarded"
"quarreling. Don Marco is funding the opera and will be singing the principal bass role. Agata feels that her voice is as good as Rosa's, but Rosa gets all the attention. Count Belpranto still wishes to marry Rosa, but she is less certain than previously. The orchestra is rehearsed at considerable length by Don Bucefalo. Suddenly, Carlino appears, removing his disguise, and is reunited with Rosa. After this, there are a number of alarms and excursions, but all ends happily. Cagnoni: ""Don Bucefalo"" – Filippo Morace (Don Bucefalo), Angelica Girardi (Rosa), Francesco Marsiglia (Il conte di Belprato), Mizuki Date (Agata);"
"and Venetian women. The statue suddenly arrives and drags Don Giovanni to his death. Ottavio and the women enter. Pasquariello and Lanterna describe Giovanni's fate to them. The opera ends as all rejoice at his downfall. Gazzaniga: ""Don Giovanni"" – Orchestra e coro della RCA Italiana Gazzaniga: ""Don Giovanni"" – Kammerchor Stuttgart, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Don Giovanni Tenorio , (English: ""Don Giovanni, or The Stone Guest"") also known as Don Giovanni Tenorio (""tenorio"" is a Spanish word for ""seducer""). The opera appeared the same year as Mozart's version. It is the most famous opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga."
"Don Giovanni Don Giovanni (; K. 527; complete title: , literally ""The Rake Punished, namely Don Giovanni"" or ""The Libertine Punished"") is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater (of Bohemia), now called the Estates Theatre, on 29 October 1787. Da Ponte's libretto was billed as a ""dramma giocoso"", a common designation of its time that denotes a mixing of serious and comic"
"Alessandro Corbelli Alessandro Corbelli (born September 21, 1952) is an Italian baritone opera singer. One of the world's pre-eminent singers specializing in Mozart and Rossini, Corbelli has sung in many major opera houses around the world and won admiration for his elegant singing style and sharp characterizations, especially in comic roles. Corbelli was born in Turin, Italy in 1952 and studied with Giuseppe Valdengo and Claude Thiolas. He made his debut in 1973 (at the age of twenty-one) in Aosta, Italy as Monterone in Verdi's ""Rigoletto"". Subsequently he appeared at La Scala in Milan (singing in all three of the"
"Alfonso in ""Così fan tutte"" (8 perf., 1997), Doctor Malatesta in ""Don Pasquale"" (8 perf., 2004; 5 perf. 2006), Don Magnifico in ""La Cenerentola"" (10 perf. 2007-2008), Doctor Bartolo in ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"" (6 perf., 2009), and Michonnet in ""Adriana Lecouvreur"" (8 perf., 2010). At the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, Corbelli performed 64 times, as of March 2012, since his debut in 1997, appearing 26 times as Dandini, 7 times as Dulcamara in ""L'elisir d'amore"", 15 times in the title role of ""Gianni Schicchi"", 8 times as Sergeant Sulpice in ""La Fille du Regiment"", and 8 times"
"where he sang regularly for the next 26 years. He made his first appearance on the Met stage as Ferrando in ""Così fan tutte"" on December 19, 1961 with Teresa Stich-Randall as Fiordiligi, Rosalind Elias as Dorabella, Theodor Uppman as Guglielmo, Roberta Peters as Despina, and Frank Guarrera as Don Alfonso. His other roles at the Met included Alfredo, Anatol in Barber's ""Vanessa"", Arbace, Belmonte, Don Carlos, Cassio in ""Otello"", Cavaradossi in ""Tosca"", Des Grieux in ""Manon"", Des Grieux in ""Manon Lescaut"", the Duke of Mantua, Edgardo, Eisenstein in ""Die Fledermaus"", Elvino in ""La Sonnambula"", Faust, Goffredo in ""Rinaldo"", Grigory"
"Bonn, and Resonanzen Vienna. She has also performed with notable orchestras, including Gewandhaus Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of Prague, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Classical Orchestra of Madrid, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestra of the Comunale of Bologna, Orchestra regionale Toscana, Complesso Barocco, and Orchestra of the Fiandre. On the opera stage she has portrayed numerous Handel heroines, including Adelaide in ""Lotario"", Asteria in ""Tamerlano"", Merab in ""Saul"", and the title roles in ""Alcina"", ""Deidamia"", and ""Rodelinda"". She appeared in Mozart operas, as Konstanze in ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail"", Fiordiligi in ""Così fan tutte"" and Donna Anna in ""Don Giovanni"". Her roles have included"
"important roles of her repertoire. In 2005 she gave her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Dorabella in ""Cosi Fan Tutte"". She has appeared at the Opéra national de Paris, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin, the Théâtre du Capitol in Toulouse, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro della Scana in Milan, the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile and the Lyric Opera Chicago. Beaumont's large opera repertoire includes Sesto (""La Clemenza di Tito""), Donna Elvira (""Don Giovanni""), Rosina (""Il Barbiere di Siviglia""),"
"1984), the Salzburg Festival (1985, Sesto in Mozart's ""La clemenza di Tito""), the Norwegian National Opera (1986), the Hamburg State Opera (1988), La Fenice (1989, Octavian), and a return to La Scala as Romeo in Bellini's ""I Capuleti e i Montecchi"" (1987). In 1990 Ziegler returned to the Canadian Opera Company as Octavian and made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Siebel in Charles Gounod's ""Faust"". She has since returned to the Met as Octavian (1991), as Dorabella (1991), as Cherubino (1995, 1999, 2002), as Rosina (1998), Flora in ""La traviata"" (1998), the Third Lady in ""The Magic Flute"""
"at the festival Wiener Festwochen included in 1976 Annius in Mozart's ""La clemenza di Tito"", and in 1986 Dorabella in Mozart's ""Così fan tutte"" in a production of La Monnaie directed by Luc Bondy. Other major parts were Orfeo in Gluck's ""Orfeo ed Euridice"", Cherubino in Mozart's ""Le nozze di Figaro"", Hänsel in Humperdinck's ""Hänsel und Gretel"", and the emperor in Henze's ""We Come to the River"". She appeared at the opera houses of Rome and Amsterdam, and London's Covent Garden. Ilse Gramatzki Ilse Gramatzki (born 1939) is a German operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto who performed at major European opera"