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Moving forward from Baroque opera | Zeno, Metastasio, Gluck

Gluck finally estabilished an indissoluble link between music and words, with music becoming the main element for the success of an opera. As in the striking aria “What shall I do without Euridice?”. It is through to the incomparable beauty and expressiveness of the melody sung by Orpheus that Love is presuaded to bring Euridice back to life.

Italian Opera the December monthly program

Italian Opera the December monthly program of main events in the most famous Italian theaters and festivals. Don’t waste time and plan your visit to Italy now, a great choice of amazing performances is at hand, wherever you are in these days!

Italian Opera the November monthly program

Italian Opera the November monthly program of main events in the most famous Italian theaters and festivals. Don’t waste time and plan your visit to Italy now, a great choice of amazing performances is at hand, wherever you are in these days!

Pesaro | Gioachino Rossini

Rossini wrote his first opera, Demetrio e Polibio in 1806 not even fifteen. His official debut was in Venice in 1810 with the opera La Cambiale di Matrimonio. In the following two decades Rossini composed 39 operas, 4 or 5 new ones per year, with some controversial premieres, such as the Barber of Seville legendary fiasco in Rome in 1816 and some extraordinary successes: La Gazza Ladra, Zelmira and Semiramide, the last opera premiered in Italy in 1823.

Siracusa | Rossini’s Tancredi

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera Operas Places off the beaten track The golden age

Tancredi: “the simple purity and virginity of genius“ In Stendhal’s opinion Tancredi was Rossini’s best opera.…

Pesaro | Gioachino Rossini

Comic opera Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera Places off the beaten track The golden age

Gioachino Rossini: the “swan” Gioachino Rossini, lovingly nicknamed by the Pesaresi their Swan, was born three…

Rossini’s revolution and the transition to a new era

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The golden age

Rossini’s revolution Gioachino Rossini embodied quite well the ideals of the Restoration, at least in the…

The transition between 18th and 19th century in Opera

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The golden age

The transition between 18th and 19th century in Opera Gioachino Rossini, the genius of comic opera,…

Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa

Comic opera Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera Operas The golden age

Genesis of the libretto by Giovanni Bertati Domenico Cimarosa‘s most successful opera, The Secret Marriage, was…

Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater | A sublime piece of sacred chamber music

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The golden age

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, a romantic figure in music history Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is in some ways…

Domenico Cimarosa | The triumph of the Neapolitan school

Comic opera Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The golden age

The Neapolitan school and the trumph of the classical style Domenico Cimarosa’s successes are a prove…