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    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 mentioned in E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread. It...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (The Madman on the Island of San Domingo) is a "romantic melodramma" in two acts by the composer Gaetano Donizetti...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    "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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    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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    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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    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 falegname di Livonia, o Pietro il grande, czar delle Russie (The Livonian Carpenter, or Peter the Great, Tsar of the Russias) is an 1819 opera buffa...
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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 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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  • Requiem and La bohème, and leading roles in bel canto operas such as Il giovedi grasso, Don Pasquale, L'elisir d'amore, Anna Bolena and Lucia di Lammermoor...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Torquato Tasso (opera)
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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