Il giovedì grasso is a farsa in one act by Gaetano Donizetti, from a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni. The literal translation of the title is "Fat Thursday"...
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has remained a staple of the operatic repertoire. An aria from the opera, "Il dolce suono", is featured in the film The Fifth Element and is mentioned in...
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Le duc d'Albe (redirect from Il duca d'Alba)
Le duc d'Albe (its original French title) or Il duca d'Alba (its later Italian title) is an opera in three acts originally composed by Gaetano Donizetti...
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However, they tell him that she is about to leave with her aunt (Marie, aria: "Il faut partir" / "I must leave you!"). In a choral finale, she leaves with the...
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Roberto Devereux (in full Roberto Devereux, ossia Il conte di Essex, Italian: [roˈbɛrto deveˈrø osˈsiːa il ˈkonte di ˈɛsseks]; "Robert Devereux, or the Earl...
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Donizetti dealing with the Tudor period in English history—in composition order, Il castello di Kenilworth (1829), Anna Bolena (1830), Maria Stuarda (named for...
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Academy, where, at the age of 19, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy Il Pigmalione, which may never have been performed during his lifetime. An offer...
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his friend Orsini. Orsini leads the party in a brindisi or drinking song ("Il segreto per esser felici") and they drink. Lucrezia enters and announces that...
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"Per dio! Se questo Napoletano continua a cantare così, farà parlare di sè il mondo intero" (Heavens! If this Neapolitan continues to sing like this, he...
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Devereux (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Il castello di Kenilworth. The lead female characters of the operas Anna Bolena...
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supposedly supports Pasquale, he is amazed at this apparent betrayal (Mi fa il destino mendico – "Fate has made a beggar of me"). Ernesto determines to elope...
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Weinstock 1963, pp. 188–189. Dom Sebastian von Portugal. OCLC 79789205. Il duca d'Alba. OCLC 174363469. Allison, John. Report from Cape Town. Opera,...
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Alphonse Royer u. Gustave Vaëz]. Dato alla luce per la 1. volta a Parigi sotto il nome La favorita [!] ed ora liberamente trad. dal francese per cura di Francesco...
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Rara. Place: Byzantium and the Haemus mountains. Time: sixth century A.D. Il Trionfo (Triumph) The hall in the emperor's palace Irene and the populace...
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Vittorio, amo la Finocchiaro"". Il Giornale (in Italian). Retrieved 4 November 2024. "I programmi televisivi di giovedì 3 marzo". Oggi (in Italian). 3...
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Il castello di Kenilworth (or, under its original name in 1829, Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth) is a melodramma serio or tragic opera in three acts...
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Il Pigmalione (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...
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di Calais (1828) Il paria (1829) Il giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale...
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The composer borrowed this aria di sortita (entrance aria) from his earlier Il castello di Kenilworth and changed the words in "Ah, se d'amor potessi". Furthermore...
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and 1985 (by Michel Mitrani). Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera Il giovedì grasso, o il nuovo Pourceaugnac is not a setting of Molière's play, but instead...
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York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-8153-2350-1 Giradi, Michele, "Donizetti e il grand-opéra: il caso di Les Martyrs" on www-5.unipv.it (in Italian) Harewood, Earl...
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Donizetti's 1833 opera Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo. In October 1839, he wrote to a friend in Naples: "La Fiancée du Tyrol will be Il furioso amplified...
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Il fortunato inganno (The Happy Deception) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Composed in 1823...
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Alfredo il grande (Alfred the Great) is a melodramma serio or serious opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Andrea Leone Tottola wrote the Italian libretto...
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Il borgomastro di Saardam (The mayor of Saardam) is an 1827 melodramma giocoso (opera buffa) in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The libretto, by Domenico...
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Il paria (The Outcast) is an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti from a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, based on Le Paria by Casimir Delavigne and Michele...
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Il diluvio universale (The great flood) is an azione tragico-sacra, or opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Domenico Gilardoni...
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di Calais (1828) Il paria (1829) Il giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale...
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Il campanello or Il campanello di notte (The Night Bell) is a dramma giocoso, or opera, in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. The composer wrote the Italian...
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In Duke Azzo's palace, Ernesto and other nobles await his arrival (È desto il duca?). Azzo appears and tells Ernesto about his fear that his wife, Parisina...
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