Opera in Focus
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The birth of Gaetano Donizetti Gaetano Donizetti, was born in Bergamo on November 29th 1797, fifth child…
The compelling power of Zandonai’s best opera Francesca da Rimini is the best known of
Jesi, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi hometown Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born in 1710 in
What is Rigoletto it about? This sounds like a simple question, which could be answered by telling the story of the…
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Roberto Bachi, a boy like any other Roberto Bachi was a boy like any other. Born in Turin in 1929…
An initiative, unveiled this week by British Health Secretary Matt Hancock, may soon enable the country’s doctors to prescribe therapeutic…
Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini tells of the tragic love story between Paolo and Francesca, told by Dante Alighieri in…
Verismo composers were mainly opera composers; the new generation of composers was different, more eclectic. Franco Alfano’s two symphonies, among…