Torquato Tasso is a melodramma semiserio, or "semi-serious" opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti and based on the life of the great poet Torquato...
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Torquato Tasso (/ˈtæsoʊ/ TASS-oh, also US: /ˈtɑːsoʊ/ TAH-soh, Italian: [torˈkwaːto ˈtasso]; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the...
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Armida (redirect from Armida (opera))
Saracen sorceress, created by the Italian late Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso. In Tasso's epic Jerusalem Delivered (Italian: Gerusalemme liberata), Rinaldo...
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Aminta (category Torquato Tasso)
Aminta is a play written by Torquato Tasso in 1573, represented during a garden party at the court of Ferrara. Both the actors and the public were noble...
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redemption, set at the time of the First Crusade, is loosely based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata ("Jerusalem Delivered"), and its staging...
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Palais Garnier (redirect from Opera Garnier)
poco spero" ("Hope for much, expect little") from the Italian poet Torquato Tasso. Garnier's project was awarded the fifth-place prize, and he became...
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Armida (Rossini) (category Operas based on works by Torquato Tasso)
musica) by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. Armida was written to be performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples...
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Armida (Sacchini) (category Operas based on works by Torquato Tasso)
Giacomo Duranti), based on the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. The opera was first performed during the 1772 Carnival season at the Teatro...
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Tancrède (category Operas based on works by Torquato Tasso)
by Torquato Tasso. The opera contains 23 dances in addition to the singing. It is famous for having the alleged first contralto role in French opera. (However...
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Agnelli, Ercole Marigliani, Ottavio Rinuccini, Giulio Strozzi and Torquato Tasso. The term opera was not widely used until the late 17th century, so Monteverdi's...
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Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (category Operas based on works by Torquato Tasso)
for three voices by Claudio Monteverdi. The libretto is drawn from Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme Liberata. It was first performed in Venice in 1624,...
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Jerusalem Delivered (category Torquato Tasso)
libeˈraːta]; lit. 'The freed Jerusalem'), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of...
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Delivered), a character in the 1581 epic poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, often depicted in art and music Clorinda, one of the protagonists in...
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Armida (Haydn) (category Operas based on works by Torquato Tasso)
Porta [it], and ultimately based on the story of Armida and Rinaldo in Torquato Tasso's poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). The text of Nunziato...
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and Torquato Tasso, or those taken from hagiography and Christian commedia dell'arte. With the increased number of characters, the Roman operas became...
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Parisina d'Este (1833), Torquato Tasso (1833) and Maria Stuarda (1834). Shortly thereafter he was inspired by the French grand-opéra for Lucia di Lammermoor...
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Il re pastore (category Operas based on works by Torquato Tasso)
opera. It consists of two acts and runs for approximately 107 minutes. Metastasio wrote the libretto in 1751, basing it on a work by Torquato Tasso called...
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Carlo Goldoni (redirect from Torquato Tasso (Goldoni))
librettos for opera seria and served for a time as literary director of the San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice's most distinguished opera house. He wrote...
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Armide (Lully) (category Operas based on works by Torquato Tasso)
Armide is an opera in five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The libretto by Philippe Quinault is based on Torquato Tasso's poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem...
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The Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote about 75 from 1816 to 1845. Pasticcio performed by Mayr's...
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the commedia dell'arte and is a character of the Aminta written by Torquato Tasso. Sylvia (that spelling) was the 137th most popular girl's name in Britain...
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Armida (Salieri) (category Operas based on works by Torquato Tasso)
liberata by Torquato Tasso. Lully, Handel and Traetta, to name but a few, had already composed operas based on the situations that Tasso originally developed...
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Clorinda (Jerusalem Delivered) (category Torquato Tasso characters)
Clorinda is a fictional character appearing in Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered, first published in 1581. She is a warrior woman of the Saracen...
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This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian-born composer Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) who spent much of his working life in France. In terms of...
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e Clorinda ("The Battle of Tancred and Clorinda"), a setting from Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata ("Jerusalem Delivered"), which had been...
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Antonio Salieri (category Italian opera composers)
was in the realm of serious opera. Commissioned for an unknown occasion, Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata...
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La fille du régiment (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy...
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furnishings and finely inlaid jewel cases. In the library are works by Torquato Tasso. The museum's collections are arranged on three floors in twenty-four...
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Claudio Monteverdi (category Italian opera composers)
entertainment Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda based on an episode from Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata. In 1627 Monteverdi received a major commission...
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Italian epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) 1581, by Torquato Tasso Tancredi Falconieri, a character in the novel The Leopard by Giuseppe...
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