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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.

October

Addio Dario!

Dario Fo, great playwriter and theatre director dies at the age of 90

October

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.

September

Opera | A Renaissance creation

The main difference between Opera and the previous polyphonic vocal music is the unique melodic line, resulting from the merging of bass and singing. In polyphonic music different vocal lines work independently, overlapping one another and making a text often incomprehensible. Opera instead offered a new way for making words expressive and intelligible, by creating a single melodic line, supported by an accompaniment.

Castenaso | Rossini marries Colbran in a sanctuary

The little sanctuary of “Our Lady of the Pilar” The tower of the little Sanctuary of…

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Donizetti and Romantic opera

Addio Dario!

Moving forward from Baroque opera | Zeno, Metastasio, Gluck

Opera | A Renaissance creation

Castenaso | Rossini marries Colbran in a sanctuary

L’Ulisse Errante

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