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November

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!

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April

Rigoletto in Mantua | Palazzo Te, the pleasure palace

What is Rigoletto it about? This sounds like a simple question, which could be answered by telling the story of the Duke of Mantua, the city of Mantua, his hunchback jester and the jester’s daughter, Gilda. A story of love, deception, revenge, and death. The story, of course, is so close to the one told by playwright and poet Victor Hugo in his play Le Roi s’amuse (The King has fun), that they could appear the same thing. But anyone who loves opera will not be satisfied by this explanation. In the best operas, music is much more than an accompaniment to the story: it is through the power of music that the story unfolds into the drama. Verdi fell literally in love with Hugo’s play and was determined to translate it into music; despite his librettist Francesco Maria Piave‘s concerns, particularly over the fourth act culminating in the deposition of a dying Gilda in a bag. In a letter dated June 1850, Verdi explains the reasons he suggested as a title for the opera Monterone’s curse or, by the short, The Curse. “The subject is the curse as a moral element: A distraught father who mourns the honor taken away from his daughter, a […]

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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.

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April

Bergamo | Donizetti’s hometown

Gaetano Donizetti, was born in Bergamo on November 29th 1797. Bergamo, city with a rich and interesting history started even before the Romans with the Celts, is located not far from Milan in the same metropolitan area, only 30 km away from lakes Como and Iseo and also close to the Alps, which foothills begin right on its north side.

Where Vincenzo Bellini meets the Coldplay | Palazzo Biscari in Sicily

Where Vincenzo Bellini meets the Coldplay | Palazzo Biscari in Sicily

About Itineraries Places off the beaten track
Vincenzo Bellini and the Prince of Biscari, two great Sicilians If a great composer such as Vincenzo Bellini was born…
Marisa Bonamico 11th March 2017
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Donizetti and Romantic opera
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Donizetti and Romantic opera

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The romantic era
The split between Italian and European music During the first half of the nineteen century starts…
Sara Filippini 4th April 2016
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Verona | I Capuleti e i Montecchi
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Verona | I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Cities Unesco Heritage Sites
Pleasant Verona! As we know Romeo and Juliet’s story, arguably the most famous love drama in…
Sara Filippini 23rd March 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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Catania | Bellini the Sicilian
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Catania | Bellini the Sicilian

History of Italian Opera Places off the beaten track The romantic era
Bellini’s “volcanic” character Francesco Florimo, his lifetime friend, described Bellini as “a pure, sweet, grateful, modest…
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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The genesis of Italian Romantic Opera
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The genesis of Italian Romantic Opera

Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The romantic era
The penetration of romanticism in Italy The new German Romantic music penetrates in Italy through a process…
Sara Filippini 16th March 2016
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