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    I pazzi per progetto (Madmen by Design) is a farsa in one act by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni. The first performance took place...
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    the glass harmonica is substituted for solo flute in Lucia's mad scene, per Donizetti's original score. Time: 17th century Place: Scotland Scene 1: The...
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  • in the catalog of the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo (Ashbrook 1982, p. 580). I piccioli virtuosi ambulanti was the title of one of the annual end-of-term...
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    the Don spluttering. She refuses to leave at his demand, so Malatesta, as per his agreement with Pasquale, takes over. Pretending to negotiate with Norina/Sofronia...
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    bella" (I am rich, and you are beautiful) – Dulcamara, Adina, scene 1 "Una furtiva lagrima" (A furtive tear) – Nemorino, scene 2 "Prendi, per me sei libero"...
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    had suffered in Paris. He was never treated there according to his merits. I myself saw the unsuccess, almost the collapse, of La fille du régiment." It...
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    "Bravo, Maestro! / I, with a sufficiently modest air, / Will go around with my head bent... / I'll have eulogies in the newspaper / I know how to make myself...
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    Kenilworth (1829), Sela in Il diluvio universale (1830), Cristina in I pazzi per progetto (1830), the title role in Francesca di Foix (1831), and Chiarina...
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    sympathetic to his plight, weeps for him ("Ama tua madre, e tenero sempre per lei ti serba..."). The others return ("Gente appressa... io ti lascio") and...
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  • Drama conducted by Dominic Wheeler, and paired with Donizetti's I pazzi per progetto. The opera was staged at Buxton Opera House in 2021, set as if performed...
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    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 Zanetti [Francesco...
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    and Roberto Devereux (1837, named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England). The leading female characters of the latter three operas are...
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    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    Roberto Devereux (category Operas about Elizabeth I)
    2nd Earl of Essex, an influential member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The plot of Roberto Devereux was hardly original, mainly derived...
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    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    journalist Winton Dean wrote of the Italian version of La favorite in 1979: "[I]t was expanded from an unperformed three-act French opera, L'Ange de Nisida...
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    Roman gods. Aria: Dieux des Romains, dieux [de nos pères] / "Gods of the Romans, [of our fathers], I will serve your wrath". Pauline enters in a rather...
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  • Thumbnail for Linda di Chamounix
    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    women seem to have in helping insane people: (So per chi. Sempre pietose / Fur la femmine con matti / "I know to whom. Women have always been pitiful to...
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  • of Gaetano Donizetti's Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo and I pazzi per progetto, went to press hours before his death. A Musical Season: A Critic...
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    ISBN 0-14-029312-4. pp. 224 – 247. (in Italian) Ashbrook, William (1986), Donizetti. I: La vita, Turin: EDT. ISBN 8870630412 Osborne, Charles, (1994), The Bel Canto...
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    message of peace. A Hundred Years of Italian Opera contains Enrico's Act I: Recitative and Cavatina, Elisa! Elisa! Oh! me infelice Care aurette che spiegate...
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    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    giovedì grasso (1829) Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829) I pazzi per progetto (1830) Il diluvio universale (1830) Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)...
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    Maria Stuarda (category Operas about Elizabeth I)
    Boleyn), Roberto Devereux (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Il castello di Kenilworth. The lead female characters of the...
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