Torquato Tasso (/ˈtæsoʊ/ TASS-oh, also US: /ˈtɑːsoʊ/ TAH-soh, Italian: [torˈkwaːto ˈtasso]; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the...
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Torquato Tasso is a melodramma semiserio, or "semi-serious" opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti and based on the life of the great poet Torquato...
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Rome presented Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (January 1833) and Torquato Tasso (September 1833). Otto mesi in due ore (1833) was given in Livorno and...
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Parisina d'Este) is an opera (tragedia lirica), in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Byron's 1816 poem Parisina...
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L'elisir d'amore (redirect from Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore)
(comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto...
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The Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote about 75 from 1816 to 1845. Pasticcio performed by...
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Lucia di Lammermoor (category Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto loosely based...
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Armida (Rossini) (category Operas based on works by Torquato Tasso)
musica) by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. Armida was written to be performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples...
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The Monument to Donizetti is located in a public garden in Piazza Cavour, adjacent to the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo. It commemorates the opera composer...
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Jerusalem Delivered (category Torquato Tasso)
libeˈraːta]; lit. 'The freed Jerusalem'), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of...
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the Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) by Italian opera composer Gaetano Donizetti. It is scored for five soloists (SATB and a baritone), mixed chorus and...
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The Donizetti Museum (Museo Donizettiano) is a cultural site in Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy. It is dedicated to the composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)...
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La fille du régiment (category Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François...
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Donizetti's birthplace (Casa natale di Gaetano Donizetti) is a cultural site in Bergamo, in Lombardy, Italy. The composer Gaetano Donizetti was born here...
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Don Pasquale (redirect from Donizetti’s Don Pasquale)
Don Pasquale (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdɔm paˈskwaːle]) is a Gaetano Donizetti opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts, with an Italian libretto completed...
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Society and stage productions by Opera Rara, notably the title role in Torquato Tasso, Corrado in Maria de Rudenz, Ernesto in Il Pirata and Orazio in Orazi...
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Il Pigmalione (redirect from Pigmalione (Donizetti))
(Pygmalion) is a scena lirica (lyric scene or opera) in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. The librettist is unknown, but it is known that the libretto was based...
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Anna Bolena (category Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
Bolena is a tragic opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's...
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La zingara (redirect from Zingara, La (Donizetti))
zingara (The Gypsy Girl) is an opera semiseria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola after La petite bohémienne...
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Orazi e Curiazi, Virginia, La muette de Portici, Maria Padilla, and Torquato Tasso. She has been married to composer Adrian Beaumont since 1963, and lives...
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La favorite (category Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
Italian title: La favorita) is a grand opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, based...
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Lucrezia Borgia (opera) (category Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
Borgia is a melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play Lucrezia Borgia...
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Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (redirect from Viva la Diva (Donizetti))
and Viva la Diva, is a dramma giocoso, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Domenico Gilardoni, adapted from...
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Il paria (category Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
were re-used in other works by Donizetti, including Lucrezia Borgia, Anna Bolena, La romanziera e l'uomo nero, Torquato Tasso, and Le duc d'Albe, as well...
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Linda di Chamounix (category Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
Chamounix is an operatic melodramma semiserio in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi. It premiered in Vienna...
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Roberto Devereux (category Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
the Earl of Essex") is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot's...
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Zoraida di Granata (redirect from Zoraida di Granata (Donizetti))
melodramma eroico (opera seria or 'heroic' opera), in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto had been partly prepared by Bartolomeo Merelli (about...
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was in Vicenza, where he sang in Mercadante's Elena da Feltre, Donizetti's Torquato Tasso and Roberto Devereux. To crown it all he sang Pollione in Bellini's...
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greatest of artists.' Other notable roles were the soprano leads in Torquato Tasso, Lucrezia Borgia, Ernani and I due Foscari. She was also successful...
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Maria de Rudenz (category Operas by Gaetano Donizetti)
Rudenz is a dramma tragico, or tragic opera, in three parts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on "a...
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