• Thumbnail for I masnadieri
    I masnadieri (The Bandits or The Robbers) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Andrea Maffei, based on the play Die Räuber...
    29 KB (3,690 words) - 08:35, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for I due Foscari
    I due Foscari (The Two Foscari) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1821 historical...
    24 KB (2,876 words) - 16:03, 30 August 2024
  • Source: Abigaille, Nabucco (Verdi) Alaide, La straniera (Bellini) Amalia, I masnadieri (Verdi) Aminta, Die schweigsame Frau (Richard Strauss) Anne, The Rake's...
    13 KB (1,343 words) - 19:39, 3 September 2024
  • together (I due Foscari) then one by one the men tears a mask from her face – only to reveal another mask underneath; first Midas (Ernani, I masnadieri), then...
    7 KB (880 words) - 20:43, 24 May 2024
  • new words to the tune of the melody. When all of Italy was under lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a video of opera singer Maurizio Marchini performing...
    10 KB (1,098 words) - 03:03, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Luisa Maragliano
    La Scala with Luisa Miller in 1969 (replacing Montserrat Caballé) and I masnadieri at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the direction of Riccardo Muti...
    5 KB (520 words) - 22:09, 13 September 2023
  • Giovanna d'Arco (1845) Alzira (1845) Attila (1846) Macbeth (1847/65) I masnadieri (1847) Jérusalem (1847) Il corsaro (1848) La battaglia di Legnano (1849)...
    5 KB (355 words) - 12:26, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lisette Oropesa
    sang the role of Amalia at the Washington Concert Opera for Verdi's I Masnadieri in which she "achieved total triumph as Amalia, the trill-filled part...
    86 KB (8,012 words) - 21:42, 3 October 2024
  • Kitic, Bergonzi/Barasorda, Zhang, Gazale, Plishka 1998–1999 Mar: Verdi – I Masnadieri: Wolf, Nagore, Hvorostovsky, Plishka, Konstantinov April: Halévy – La...
    16 KB (1,811 words) - 14:44, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi
    Pergola, Florence 14 Mar 1847 Based on work by William Shakespeare 11 I masnadieri Andrea Maffei 4 Italian Her Majesty's Theatre, London 22 Jul 1847 Based...
    15 KB (602 words) - 15:55, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maria Agresta
    Roberto Rizzi Brignoli. Published by Bongiovanni, 2011. Giuseppe Verdi, I due Foscari, Maria Agresta as Lucrezia Contarini, Placido Domingo as Francesco...
    9 KB (668 words) - 09:37, 5 October 2021
  • Thumbnail for Fabio Sartori
    Foresto.", Financial Times ) and in June/July 2019 he performed Carlo in I masnadieri to great critical acclaim ("The Herculean Fabio Sartori packed a mighty...
    9 KB (993 words) - 09:07, 1 April 2024
  • 1847 Les martyrs, Donizetti, 1840 The Mask of Orpheus, Birtwistle, 1968 I masnadieri, Verdi, 1847 Masquerade, Nielsen, 1906 Mateo Falcone, Cui, 1907 Mathis...
    52 KB (2,739 words) - 21:32, 31 August 2024
  • Giovanna d'Arco (1845) Alzira (1845) Attila (1846) Macbeth (1847/65) I masnadieri (1847) Jérusalem (1847) Il corsaro (1848) La battaglia di Legnano (1849)...
    4 KB (490 words) - 16:55, 14 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Il corsaro
    suitable baritone was not available. In 1845, before it was determined that I masnadieri was to be the opera presented in London, the composer had contracted...
    21 KB (2,592 words) - 14:24, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Samuel Ramey
    Other dramatic roles of his have included Verdi's Nabucco, Don Carlo, I masnadieri, I Lombardi and Jérusalem, as well as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (he...
    17 KB (1,190 words) - 20:28, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for I Lombardi alla prima crociata
    I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (The Lombards on the First Crusade) is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto...
    24 KB (2,661 words) - 19:07, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Giuseppe Verdi
    lay this letter on my heart when they bury me." Verdi had completed I masnadieri for London by May 1847 except for the orchestration. This he left until...
    94 KB (12,796 words) - 07:36, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Va, pensiero
    "this is the opera with which my artistic career really begins. And though I had many difficulties to fight against, it is certain that Nabucco was born...
    10 KB (1,202 words) - 11:00, 29 September 2024
  • saprollo fulminar! Literal translation DUKE: One day, if I remember well, oh beautiful, I met you ... I liked you to ask and understood that you are here. Now...
    6 KB (739 words) - 07:51, 17 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Filippo Coletti
    Coletti created two Verdi roles: Gusmano in Alzira and Francesco in I masnadieri. Verdi revised the role of Germont in La traviata for Coletti, whose...
    50 KB (6,908 words) - 00:36, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pauline Rita
    Castellani at Ivrea, near Milan, singing pieces from Lucia di Lammermoor and I masnadieri. In 1869 her singing teacher was Charlotte Sainton-Dolby, and in the...
    10 KB (1,326 words) - 01:33, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maria Spezia-Aldighieri
    she sang on stage were Amalia in I masnadieri, Desdemona in Otello, Gilda in Rigoletto, Giselda and Viclinda in Verdi's I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Lady...
    5 KB (643 words) - 08:55, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Attila (opera)
    impresario at Her Majesty's Theatre, had successfully presented Verdi's I masnadieri there in 1847. In his 1864 autobiography he notes that "none perhaps...
    26 KB (2,810 words) - 08:46, 30 May 2024
  • sweet Aida, To return crowned with laurels, To tell you: for you I have fought, For you I have won! Heavenly Aida, divine form, Mystical garland of light...
    3 KB (353 words) - 01:40, 4 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tu che le vanità
    questa terra ibéra, Se Carlo ancor dovrà fermare i passi a sera, Che le zolle, i ruscel', i fonti, i boschi, i fior, Con le loro armonie cantino il nostro...
    6 KB (801 words) - 16:31, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Di quella pira
    your blood shall flow! I was her offspring, ere love I gave thee, In vain, to hold me, thy griefs would try. Mother unhappy! I fly to save thee, Or, all...
    4 KB (485 words) - 21:26, 29 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for The Robbers
    sensation. It later became the basis for Verdi's opera of the same name, I masnadieri. The plot revolves around the conflict between two aristocratic brothers...
    30 KB (4,261 words) - 14:37, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Don Carlos
    designed by scenic artists Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry (Acts I and III), Édouard Desplechin and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (Acts II and V), and...
    55 KB (7,245 words) - 12:54, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Villa Verdi
    starts, in 1880. After the death of Verdi's mother his father moved into town, i.e. Busseto. Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi, the opera singer with whom he...
    7 KB (684 words) - 16:09, 8 October 2024