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5 unusual facts about Italian opera


Corfu incident

In Corfu during the first quarter of the 20th century, many Italian operas were performed at the Municipal Theatre of Corfu.

Italian opera

In Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth a tradition of operatic production began in Warsaw in 1628, with a performance of Galatea (composer uncertain), the first Italian opera produced outside Italy.

Municipal Theatre of Corfu

During the first quarter of the twentieth century, many Italian operas were performed at the theatre.

Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy

Many Italian artists were invited to Munich, and she also introduced Italian opera to the court of Bavaria.

Tiatr

He took up a job for an Italian opera troupe which was touring Indian cities at the time, staging an opera called 'Italian Boy'.


Gustave Huberdeau

He sang a wide repertoire encompassing material from French composers like Gounod and Massenet to the Italian grand operas of Verdi, the verismo operas of Mascagni, and the German operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.


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2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Besides the Italian National Anthem two choirs of Italian Opera singers sung Va, pensiero from Verdi during the flag hoisting procedure.

Bedshaped

Italian opera singer Vittorio Grigolo recorded an Italian-language version of "Bedshaped", renamed "Cosi", which appears on his album In the Hands of Love.

Comédie larmoyante

There are many examples of 'comédie larmoyante' in both French and Italian opera where it gave birth to the genre of opera semiseria: André Grétry's Lucile, Nicolas Dalayrac's Nina, ou La folle par amour, Pasquale Anfossi's La vera costanza (1776) and Joseph Haydn's work of the same name (1779).

Cyro Pestana

Son of the Brazilian republican leader Augusto Pestana and great-grandson of the Italian opera singer Gaetano Ricciolini, Pestana graduated in 1919 from the National Law School of Rio de Janeiro.

Daniel E. Freeman

Besides his monographs, Freeman has published essays on Italian opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, eighteenth-century keyboard music, and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach sons, Antonio Vivaldi, and Josquin des Prez.

Don Giovanni

It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga (now called the Estates Theatre) on October 29, 1787.

Fenice

La Fenice - Italian opera house in Venice, one of the most famous theatres in Europe.

Filippo Marchetti

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.

Giovanni Bertati

Emperor Leopold II gave Bertati the title of Poeta Cesareo ("Imperial Poet") of the Italian Opera in Vienna, previously held by Lorenzo Da Ponte, who, a year earlier, fell in disgrace with the emperor.

Giovanni Legrenzi

Howard Mayer Brown: Italian opera librettos : 1640-1770. Italian opera, 1640-1770 v. 60.

Giovanni Polese

Giovanni Polese (1873, Venice - January 1952, Induno Olona) was an Italian operatic baritone who had an active international singing career from 1894-1928.

Henriette Sontag

She was hired by the Italian Opera in Mexico City, where on 17 May 1854, she intoned for the first time the words of the Mexican national anthem, written by poet Francisco González Bocanegra.

Hymn of the Nations

Hymn of the Nations, originally titled Arturo Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations (1944), is a film directed by Alexander Hammid, which features the Inno delle nazioni, a patriotic work for tenor soloist, chorus, and orchestra, composed by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi in the early-1860s.

Israel in Egypt

However in 1733 a rival opera company to Handel's, The Opera of the Nobility, had split the audience for Italian opera in London.

Jeremy Commons

He has worked with leading exponents of Italian opera such as Dame Joan Sutherland and conductor Richard Bonynge on articles to accompany their recordings for Decca Records.

Jurgis Šaulys

In the wake of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he moved to Lugano in Switzerland with his wife, the Italian opera singer Mafalda Salvatini, acting as the Lithuanian ambassador in Berne until the legation was closed in 1946.

Kyra Vayne

In 1951 she sang Leonora in ‘’Il trovatore’’ for Welsh National Opera, and in autumn 1952 Vayne sang her first Tosca, to the Scarpia of Tito Gobbi in the Italian Opera Company's production.

Luigi Arditi

Then, following a visit to Constantinople, he decided to settle in London, but made several trips again to America with the Royal Italian Opera Company.

Maria Labia

Maria Labia (14 February 1880, Verona-10 February 1953, Malcesine, Lake Garda) was an Italian operatic soprano who was particularly associated with roles of the verisimo repertoire.

MusiCares Person of the Year

Between 1997 and 2004, the award went to British musicians Phil Collins, Sir Elton John, and Sting, Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti, Americans Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, and Billy Joel, and Irish musician Bono.

Romolo ed Ersilia

Romolo ed Ersilia ("Romulus and Ersilia") is an 18th-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček composed to a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio first produced in Innsbruck in 1765 with music by Johann Adolf Hasse.

Shag Tobacco

The second track, "Caruso" is Friday's tribute to Enrico Caruso the Italian opera singer.

The Gigli Concert

The Gigli Concert deals with seven days in the relationship between Dynamatologist JPW King, a quack self-help therapist living in Dublin but born and brought up in England, and the mysterious Irishman, a construction millionaire who asks King to teach him how to sing like the Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli.

The Penultimate Peril

There are several quotes to the Italian opera La forza del destino (the force of destiny), and it's mentioned that Baudelaires' parents attended the show.

Toti Dal Monte

In 1924, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but before her debut in London or New York, she was engaged by the diva Dame Nellie Melba to be one of the star singers of an Italian opera company that Melba was organising to make a tour of Australia.

Verdi-Mogul, Nevada

Verdi was named after Giuseppe Verdi by Charles Crocker, founder of the Central Pacific Railroad, pulling a slip of paper from a hat and reading the name of the Italian opera composer.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Prague

Indeed, productions of Italian opera in Prague ceased again already in 1789, not to re-appear again until 1791, due to the departure of the impresario Domenico Guardasoni and the death of the impresario Pasquale Bondini.