Alessandro (HWV 21), is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726 for the Royal Academy of Music. Paolo Rolli's libretto is based on the story...
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Alessandro is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Alessandro may also refer to: Alessandro (opera), a 1726 opera by Handel Alessandro, California...
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Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas...
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Alessandro Safina (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro saˈfiːna]) is an Italian operatic pop tenor. Born in Siena, Italy, Safina has sought to combine...
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Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella (Bologna, 3 July 1643 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period. He enjoyed...
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Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (9 December 1728 – 19 November 1804) was an Italian opera composer of the classical period. Guglielmi was born into the Guglielmi...
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operatic comedy, Il Trespolo tutore, by Alessandro Stradella, in 1679. Opera buffa was a parallel development to opera seria, and arose in reaction to the...
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Alessandro Moreschi (11 November 1858 – 21 April 1922) was an Italian chorister of the late 19th century and the only castrato to make solo recordings...
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Alessandro Juliani (born 6 July 1975) is a Canadian actor and singer. He is notable for playing the roles of Tactical Officer Lieutenant Felix Gaeta on...
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This is a list of the operas written by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725). Scarlatti wrote 45 drammi per musica, also 7 melodrammi...
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Alessandro Stradella is a romantic opera (Romantische Oper) in three acts composed by Friedrich von Flotow to a German libretto by "Wilhelm Friedrich"...
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Il re pastore (category Opera seria)
Anna Devin (Tamiri), john Mark Ainsley (Alessandro), Benjamin Hulett (Agenore), The Orchestra of Classical Opera, Ian Page (Signum Classics). Casaglia,...
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Doriclea (Stradella) (category Operas by Alessandro Stradella)
La Doriclea is a 1672 opera in three acts by Alessandro Stradella, first performed in Rome. It was Stradella's first opera. The libretto is probably by...
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Alessandro de' Medici (22 July 1510 – 6 January 1537), nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine...
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example in the operas of Mozart, who wrote in Vienna near the century's close. Leading Italian-born composers of opera seria include Alessandro Scarlatti,...
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This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1728–1804). Ninety-five works are listed below. This does not...
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genre of French opera (or tragédie en musique) was preferred. Acclaimed composers of opera seria included Antonio Caldara, Alessandro Scarlatti, George...
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Alessandro D'Ancona (20 February 1835 – 9 November 1914) was an Italian critic and writer. He was born at Pisa, of a wealthy Jewish family, and educated...
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1795), known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (US: /kɑːlˈjɔːstroʊ, kæl-/ ka(h)l-YAW-stroh, Italian: [alesˈsandro kaʎˈʎɔstro]), was an Italian...
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Berenice (HWV 38) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to a 1709 Antonio Salvi libretto, Berenice, regina d'Egitto, or Berenice, Queen...
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Alessandro nelle Indie (Alexander in India) is an opera seria in two acts by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola and Giovanni Schmidt...
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Indians", HWV 28) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Alessandro nell'Indie by Metastasio...
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Alessandro Striggio the Younger (ca. 1573 – 8 June 1630) was an Italian librettist, the son of the composer Alessandro Striggio. The younger Striggio is...
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and 18th-century Italy, which includes: Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725), Baroque composer known for operas and chamber cantatas, father of Domenico...
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Italian), Bari edition, 25 May 2011, p. 16; Alessandro Cammarano, "Venezia – Teatro La Fenice: Norma", OperaClick (in Italian), 20 May 2015. Remigio also...
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the opera Alessandro nell'Indie by Davide Perez, with libretto by Pietro Metastasio. Before its destruction, the opera also premiered two operas by Antonio...
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compositions to be called "cantata." Kurtzman, Jeffrey (2015). Alessandro Grandi Opera Omnia V. Il quarto libro de motetti a due, tre, quattro, et sette...
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considered a precursor of this type of opera is Alessandro Stradella, despite the fact that he composed most of his operas in Genoa: Trespolo tutore (1677)...
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Giancarlo Esposito (redirect from Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito)
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (Italian: [dʒaŋˈkarlo dʒuˈzɛppe alesˈsandro eˈspɔːzito]; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is best...
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Pope Leo XI (redirect from Alessandro Medici)
Pope Leo XI (Italian: Leone XI; 2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605), born Alessandro di Ottaviano de' Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the...
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