Il crociato in Egitto (The Crusader in Egypt) is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at...
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Contralto (section Subtypes and roles in opera)
Naxos (Strauss) Erda, Das Rheingold, Siegfried (Wagner) Felicia, Il crociato in Egitto (Meyerbeer) Madame Flora (Baba), The Medium (Menotti) Fidès, Le...
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (section In Italy)
himself to opera, spending several years in Italy studying and composing. His 1824 opera Il crociato in Egitto was the first to bring him a Europe-wide...
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Aureliano in Palmira (1813) and Armando in Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto (1824). He made his London debut in 1825 in Il crociato in Egitto. The crowds...
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Maria Malibran (category Deaths by horse-riding accident in England)
turco in Italia, La Cenerentola, and Semiramide (both Arsace and the title role). She also sang in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto in Paris in September...
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(Manon) Umberto Giordano Mese mariano (Carmela) Il re (Rosalina) Giacomo Meyerbeer Il crociato in Egitto (Palmide) Robert le diable (Isabelle) Tommaso Traetta...
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Grand opera (section Ballet in grand opera)
forerunner was Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer, who eventually became the acknowledged king of the grand opera genre. In Il crociato, which was produced...
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Lulu Giacomo Meyerbeer – Il crociato in Egitto Waldemar Thrane – Fjeldeventyret ("The mountain adventure") Nicola Vaccai Pietro il grande (première January...
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performed the last operatic castrato role ever written: Armando in Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer (Venice, 1824). Soon after this they were replaced...
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Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto. Also in 2007, Maniaci returned to Glimmerglass Opera to perform the title role in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. In 2008, Maniaci...
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di Granata and Rosamonda d'Inghilterra and Meyerbeer's Il Crociato in Egitto (The Crusaders in Egypt). Diana Montague's frequent concert engagements have...
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Michael William Balfe (category Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom)
sing in Rossini's Otello with Malibran at La Scala in 1834. An unpopular attempt at "improving" Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Il crociato in Egitto by interpolating...
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Théâtre-Italien in Paris, where he introduced Meyerbeer's opera Il crociato in Egitto, and for which he wrote Il viaggio a Reims to celebrate the coronation of Charles...
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Carlo di Borgogna, Maria, regina d'Inghilterra, Zoraida di Granata, Il crociato in Egitto, Pia de' Tolomei, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, Otello, etc...
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Robert le diable (redirect from Roberto il diavolo)
some performances in other European countries. The success of Il crociato in Egitto (1824) throughout Europe, including at Paris in 1825, persuaded Meyerbeer...
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associated with French grand opera. Another important forerunner was Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer, who eventually became the acknowledged king of the...
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Opera Rara (category Record labels established in 1970)
Smith Square and Wigmore Hall in London. The company presented its first complete opera – Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto – in 1972 at the Queen Elizabeth...
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cavalier” de l'opéra Il Crociato in Egitto de G. Meyerbeer, Op. 79 [alternate title, Impromptu sur un air favori de l'opéra Il crociato in Egitto] Exercises en...
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hiring material for many composers: it had acquired Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto in 1824, followed by 19 operas by Rossini, and eight by Bellini, along...
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Cornélie Falcon (section Debut in Robert le diable)
opera Il crociato in Egitto. Falcon's other creations at the Opéra included the roles of Rachel in Halévy's La Juive (23 February 1835), Valentine in Meyerbeer's...
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Comédie-Italienne (category Opera houses in Paris)
produced the first opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer to be performed in Paris, Il crociato in Egitto, on 25 September 1825. On 12 November 1825 the company moved...
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circle in Russia; Frédéric Chopin in Poland; Carl Maria von Weber and Heinrich Marschner in Germany; Edvard Grieg in Norway; Jean Sibelius in Finland;...
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Coronation of Poppea, Jupiter in Handel's Semele, and Adriano in Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto. "John Brecknock: Tenor with the ENO known for his 'beautiful...
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Yvonne Kenny (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
appeared in many recordings with them, notably Donizetti's Ugo, conte di Parigi and Emilia di Liverpool, Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto, and Simon...
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Jean-Antoine-Marie Monperlier (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2010)
1824 opera Il crociato in Egitto. He died in Paris, aged 30. Monperlier's dramatic works include: Les femmes infidelles – opéra-vaudeville in 3 acts, first...
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History of opera (section Development in Europe)
82) The last opera in which he sang a castrato was Il crociato in Egitto, by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1824). Its presence continued in the sphere of the Catholic...
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Bonifacio by Verdi, Il Templario (1840) by O. Nicolai; in Florence for the Teatro Alfieri, Il crociato in Egitto (1832) by Giacomo Meyerbeer; in Rome for the...
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created Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto. In 1826, she created Bellini's Bianca e Gernando at the San Carlo in Naples. At La Scala in Milan, she created...
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be heard in complete recordings of Donizetti's Ugo, conte di Parigi, L'assedio di Calais, Maria Padilla, Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto and Rossini's...
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march onto the scene in the finale of Act I of Il crociato in Egitto. The big hits of the opera were Jenny Lind's air with two flutes in the third act, and...
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