Category Archives: Operas
The compelling power of Zandonai’s best opera Francesca da Rimini is the best known of
What is Rigoletto it about? This sounds like a simple question, which could be answered by telling the story of the…
Bologna, the perfect setting for a Secret Marriage The Secret Marriage composed by Cimarosa on…
Roberto Bachi, a boy like any other Roberto Bachi was a boy like any other. Born in Turin in 1929…
Verdi’s last opera Falstaff relates to Verdi’s late years when after the enormous success of Otello no one expected him to…
Leoncavallo from Naples to Calabria Leoncavallo wrote the libretto for Pagliacci himself, inspired by a true fact happened at Montalto Uffugo,…
A troubled genesis Un Ballo in Maschera is arguably one of most popular opera by Giuseppe…
Donizetti’s full mastery of the comic style. L’Elisir d’amore is the first opera in which Donizetti…
Genesis of La Sonnamula Getting closer the deadline for the presentation of a new opera at…
I Capuleti e i Montecchi genesis Bellini composed I Capuleti e i Montecchi in one and…