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Donizetti | Elisir d’Amore and the magic of Italian borghi

Elisir d’amore is Donizetti’s first opera to show his full mastery of the comic style. Arias like “Adina believe me” and the most famous “A furtive tear” are pieces in which Donizetti not simply suggests emotions but gives body to their very essence thanks to a music of universal, immortal power. The story is set at the end of eighteenth century, in a country village.

January

I Pagliacci ¦ Leoncavallo’s Calabria

Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci is a opera of tremendous energy and impetus, up to the final scene, one of the most gripping of Italian opera. The aria”Vesti la giubba” “put on your costume” is one of the best-renowned tenor arias of the whole repertoire. It is in fact both an expressive and a vocal test for any lyric tenor.

September

Opera | Useful basic definitions of commonly used terms

Opera is a drama created through music. It is the result of the joint effort of some of the best poets and composers in music history who worked together in perfect synergy to create a work as a whole.

March

The genesis of Italian Romantic Opera

The protagonists of romantic operas live love differently than those of the eighteenth-century repertoire. For them love is a complete emotional enrapture. They share this incontrollable passion with a public who generally has a more ordinary life and now, through this new music drama, can experience a total emotional involvement.

Domenico Cimarosa | The triumph of the Neapolitan school

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

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Donizetti | Elisir d’Amore and the magic of Italian borghi

I Pagliacci ¦ Leoncavallo’s Calabria

Opera | Useful basic definitions of commonly used terms

The genesis of Italian Romantic Opera

Domenico Cimarosa | The triumph of the Neapolitan school

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