Agnese is an 1809 semi-serious opera by Ferdinando Paer, to a libretto by Luigi Buonavoglia. It was originally composed for private and amateur performance...
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characters in Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed Agnese (opera), an opera by Paer Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564), Genovese cartographer "20 nomi femminili...
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Agnese Landini (Italian pronunciation: [aɲˈɲeːze lanˈdiːni, -ɲɛːz-]; born 11 November 1976) is an Italian teacher, wife of former Prime Minister of Italy...
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Agnese Schebest, née Agnese Šebesta, also Agnese Schebesta (10 February 1813 – 22 January 1870) was an Austrian operatic mezzo-soprano. She lived as a...
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La fiamma (category Operas)
heard off-stage in pursuit of Agnese di Cervia, a friend of Silvana's mother, accused of sorcery and infanticide. Agnese appears to Silvana and begs to...
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Agnese del Maino (c. 1411 – 13 December 1465) was a Milanese noblewoman and the mistress of Filippo Maria Visconti, the last legitimate duke of Milan of...
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Giuseppe Ambrogetti (category 19th-century Italian male opera singers)
true to nature, the part of the mad father in Ferdinando Paer's opera Agnese (opera), while the part of the daughter was sung by Violante Camporesi....
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The Betrothed (Manzoni novel) (category Novels adapted into operas)
Lucia and Agnese are visited by beggars, Don Rodrigo's men in disguise. They examine the house in order to plan an assault. Late at night, Agnese distracts...
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This is a list of individual opera composers and their major works. The list includes composers' principal operas and those of historical importance in...
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Gaspare Spontini (category General directors of the Berlin State Opera)
Other revivals of Spontini include Agnes von Hohenstaufen in Italian as Agnese di Hohenstaufen at the Maggio Musicale festival in Florence in 1954, starring...
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Franco Corelli (category 20th-century Italian male opera singers)
number of rare operas in which he triumphed including performances of Spontini's Agnes von Hohenstaufen in its Italian version, Agnese di Hohenstaufen...
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Beatrice di Tenda (category Opera world premieres at La Fenice)
Bianca e Fernando. (Bellini's sketches of a former duet between Beatrice and Agnese were realized by Vittorio Gui for a series of revivals from the late 1960s...
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Lucilla Udovich (category 20th-century American women opera singers)
him in one of his last concert tours in Italy. Udovich made her opera debut in Agnese di Hohenstaufen by Spontini in 1954 at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino...
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Opera continued to be one of the most important features of the Edinburgh International Festival in the third decade. Edinburgh Festival Opera, a company...
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Cyrano de Bergerac (Alfano) (redirect from Cyrano de Bergerac (opera))
four-act opera with music by Franco Alfano, and libretto by Henri Caïn, based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 drama Cyrano de Bergerac. The opera received its...
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Agnes von Hohenstaufen (redirect from Agnese von Hohenstaufen)
New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. ISBN 0-140-29312-4 German libretto by Ernst Raupach. Agnese di Hohenstaufen, Italian version of the opera on YouTube....
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Barbara Frittoli (category 20th-century Italian women opera singers)
Delia / Modestina, Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini) Micaëla, Carmen (Bizet) Agnese, Beatrice di Tenda (Bellini) Berta, The Barber of Seville (Rossini) Flaminio...
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Alessandro Stradella (category Italian opera composers)
powerful nobleman, Alvise Contarini, as the music tutor to his mistress, Agnese Van Uffele. She and Stradella began an affair[citation needed] and fled...
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Leyla Gencer (category 20th-century Turkish women opera singers)
in many rarely performed operas, including Smareglia's La Falena, Rossini's Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, Spontini's Agnese di Hohenstaufen, Pacini's...
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Teatro Argentina is an 18th-century opera house and theatre located in the square. The premieres of many notable operas took place there. They include Gioachino...
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Raina Kabaivanska (category 20th-century Bulgarian women opera singers)
Pagliacci. In 1961, she gave her first performance at La Scala in Milan, as Agnese in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda, opposite Dame Joan Sutherland. She sang...
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Greek Ἁγνή Hagnḗ, meaning 'pure' or 'holy'. The name passed to Italian as Agnese, to French as Agnès, to Portuguese as Inês, and to Spanish as Inés. It is...
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Divorce Italian Style (category Films adapted into operas)
Spadaro as Don Gaetano Cefalù Margherita Girelli as Sisina Angela Cardile as Agnese Lando Buzzanca as Rosario Mulè Pietro Tordi as Attorney De Marzi Ugo Torrente...
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la sua pieve dall'alto Medioevo all'età borromaica", La Basilica di S. Agnese. L'antica prepositurale di Somma e la sua pieve: storia, arte e architettura...
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of the operas of the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer (1771–1839). Budden, Julian (1992), 'Paer, Ferdinando' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley...
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melo labāk ('They [females] Lie Better') is a Latvian summer daytime soap opera broadcast by TV3 Latvia. It ran on TV for 10 seasons and has featured well-known...
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Maria Malibran (category 19th-century French women opera singers)
first appeared on stage in Naples with her father in Ferdinando Paër's Agnese, when she was eight years old. When she was 17, she was a singer in the...
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Marco Bordogni (category 19th-century Italian male opera singers)
serio-comic and comic operas. In addition to the Rossini roles, Bordogni also gave first performances at the Théâtre-Italien in Paër’s Agnese di Fitz-Henry (Ernesto)...
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Il piccolo Marat (category 1921 operas)
Il piccolo Marat is a dramma lirico or opera in three acts by the Italian composer Pietro Mascagni from a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano composed when...
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Iraqi Kurdistan Matteo Renzi, former Prime Minister of Italy and his wife Agnese Landini Uhuru Kenyatta, former president of Kenya. Najib Mikati, Prime Minister...
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