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July

Italian Opera the August monthly program

Italian Opera the August monthly program of main events in the most famous Italian theaters.

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December

Forging the new Italian Opera | Francesca da Rimini

Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini tells of the tragic love story between Paolo and Francesca, told by Dante Alighieri in the 5th Canto of his Inferno, first part to the XIV century poem The Divine Comedy. Nearly 100 years later Boccaccio retold the story in his commentary on Dante’s Divine Comedy, adding details which are still historically controversial. In his account Malatesta from Verucchio, founder of the powerful Malatesta family, decided the marriage of his crippled son Gianciotto Malatesta to Francesca Da Polenta to put an end to the war between the two families. According to Boccaccio, Malatesta the Old, concerned that the bride could reject the bridegroom on the altar, sent in his place to perform a proxy marriage his handsome brother Paolo, a trick that she’d uncover only upon her arrival in Rimini. Gabriele D’Annunzio based the libretto for Zandonai’s opera on Boccaccio’s tale.   His intention was to make of Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini, (1902) the first of a series of dramatic works and the foundation to “the new Italian art”. D’Annunzio’s importance as a writer in the early-twentieth-century Italy was matched only by the prominence of his blatant, extravagant personality, his debts and his scandalous lifestyle, which left a trail […]

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December

Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa

Domenico Cimarosa’s most successful opera, The Secret Marriage, was composed on a libretto written by Giovanni Bertati, a Venetian employed as court poet in Vienna, on a subject very popular at the time. The story was in fact at the centre of a series of 6 paintings by William Hogarth, the Marriage in Fashion, le Mariage à la Mode, published in London between 1743 and 1745, depicting the bad consequences of a wedding between a penniless aristocrat and a rich bourgeois. Bertati the librettist turns the social satire into a mockery of bourgeois, eager to ennoble but happy to save half of the dowry when the opportunity arises.

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April

Donizetti and Romantic opera

Bellini’s premature death allowed finally Donizetti to take the title of “Main Italian composer” left vacant by Rossini a decade before. On the other end, his sickness and death spared him the humiliation of being ousted again by the irresistible rise of Verdi.

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

History of Italian Opera Operas Places off the beaten track The romantic era
Donizetti’s full mastery of the comic style. L’Elisir d’amore is the first opera in which Donizetti…
Sara Filippini 9th July 2016
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Donizetti | The Romantic epitome
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Donizetti | The Romantic epitome

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The romantic era
The beginning of Donizetti’s career At the beginning of his career, Donizetti writes mainly for the…
Sara Filippini 8th July 2016
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Vincenzo Bellini | La Sonnambula
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Vincenzo Bellini | La Sonnambula

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera Operas The romantic era
Genesis of La Sonnamula Getting closer the deadline for the presentation of a new opera at…
Sara Filippini 23rd March 2016
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Bellini | A love and death story I Capuleti e i Montecchi
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Bellini | A love and death story I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera Operas The romantic era
I Capuleti e i Montecchi genesis Bellini composed I Capuleti e i Montecchi in one and…
Sara Filippini 22nd March 2016
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The short life of Vincenzo Bellini
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The short life of Vincenzo Bellini

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The romantic era
Vincenzo Bellini, a child prodigy An anonymous manuscript reports that the young Bellini was a child…
Sara Filippini 18th March 2016
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Bellini | Manifesto of Italian romantic opera
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Bellini | Manifesto of Italian romantic opera

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The romantic era
The Manifesto of Italian romantic opera From a letter by Vincenzo Bellini sent to Agostino Gallo we learn…
Sara Filippini 18th March 2016
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