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Pacini, Parody and Il Pirata Alexander Weatherson
“Nell’orror di mie sciagure” Pacini, parody and Il pirata Alexander Weatherson Rivalry takes many often-disconcerting forms. In the closed and highly competitive world of the cartellone it could be bitter, occasionally desperate. Only in the hands of an inveterate tease could it be amusing. Or tragi-comic, which might in fact be a better description. That there was a huge gulf socially between Vincenzo Bellini and Giovanni Pacini is not in any doubt, the latter - in the wake of his highly publicised liaison with Pauline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon - enjoyed the kind of notoriety that nowadays would earn him the constant attention of the media, he was a high-profile figure and positively reveled in this status. Musically too there was a gulf. On the stage since his sixteenth year he was also an exceptionally experienced composer who had enjoyed collaboration with, and the confidence of, Rossini. No further professional accolade would have been necessary during the early decades of the nineteenth century On 20 November 1826 - his account in his memoirs Le mie memorie artistiche1 is typically convoluted - Giovanni Pacini was escorted around the Conservatorio di S. Pietro a Majella of Naples by Niccolò Zingarelli the day after the resounding success of his Niobe, itself on the anniversary of the prima of his even more triumphant L’ultimo giorno di Pompei, both at the Real Teatro S.Carlo. In the Refettorio degli alunni he encountered Bellini for what seems to have been the first time2 among a crowd of other students who threw bottles and plates in the air in his honour.3 That the meeting between the concittadini did not go well, this enthusiasm notwithstanding, can be taken for granted. -
Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti ORC 3 in association with Box cover : ‘ Eleonore, Queen of Portugal’ by Joos van Cleve, 1530 (akg-images/Erich Lessing) Booklet cover : The duel, a scene from Gioja’s ballet Gabriella di Vergy , La Scala, Milan, 1826 Opposite : Gaetano Donizetti CD faces: Elizabeth Vestris as Gabrielle de Vergy in Pierre de Belloy’s tragedy, Paris, 1818 –1– Gaetano Donizetti GABRIELLA DI VERGY Tragedia lirica in three acts Gabriella.............................................................................Ludmilla Andrew Fayel, Count of Vergy.......................................................Christian du Plessis Raoul de Coucy......................................................................Maurice Arthur Filippo II, King of France......................................................John Tomlinson Almeide, Fayel’s sister...................................................................Joan Davies Armando, a gentleman of the household...................................John Winfield Knights, nobles, ladies, servants, soldiers Geoffrey Mitchell Choir APPENDIX Scenes from Gabriella di Vergy (1826) Gabriella..............................................................................Eiddwen Harrhy Raoul de Coucy............................................................................Della Jones Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Alun Francis –2– Managing director: Stephen Revell Producer: Patric Schmid Assistant conductor: David Parry Consultant musicologist: Robert Roberts Article and synopsis: Don White English libretto: -
Roger Parker: Curriculum Vitae
1 Roger Parker Publications I Books 1. Giacomo Puccini: La bohème (Cambridge, 1986). With Arthur Groos 2. Studies in Early Verdi (1832-1844) (New York, 1989) 3. Leonora’s Last Act: Essays in Verdian Discourse (Princeton, 1997) 4. “Arpa d’or”: The Verdian Patriotic Chorus (Parma, 1997) 5. Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio (Berkeley, 2006) 6. New Grove Guide to Verdi and his Operas (Oxford, 2007); revised entries from The New Grove Dictionaries (see VIII/2 and VIII/5 below) 7. Opera’s Last Four Hundred Years (in preparation, to be published by Penguin Books/Norton). With Carolyn Abbate II Books (edited/translated) 1. Gabriele Baldini, The Story of Giuseppe Verdi (Cambridge, 1980); trans. and ed. 2. Reading Opera (Princeton, 1988); ed. with Arthur Groos 3. Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner (Berkeley, 1989); ed. with Carolyn Abbate 4. Pierluigi Petrobelli, Music in the Theater: Essays on Verdi and Other Composers (Princeton, 1994); trans. 5. The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera (Oxford, 1994); translated into German (Stuttgart. 1998), Italian (Milan, 1998), Spanish (Barcelona, 1998), Japanese (Tokyo, 1999); repr. (slightly revised) as The Oxford History of Opera (1996); repr. paperback (2001); ed. 6. Reading Critics Reading: Opera and Ballet Criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848 (Oxford, 2001); ed. with Mary Ann Smart 7. Verdi in Performance (Oxford, 2001); ed. with Alison Latham 8. Pensieri per un maestro: Studi in onore di Pierluigi Petrobelli (Turin, 2002); ed. with Stefano La Via 9. Puccini: Manon Lescaut, special issue of The Opera Quarterly, 24/1-2 (2008); ed. -
Portrait of Caterina Cornaro (1454 –1510) Dressed As St Catherine of Alexandria C.1542 (Oil on Canvas) by Titian (C.1588 –1576)
ORC48 Box cover and CD faces : Portrait of Caterina Cornaro (1454 –1510) dressed as St Catherine of Alexandria c.1542 (oil on canvas) by Titian (c.1588 –1576). Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy/ The Bridgeman Art Library Book cover : Caterina Cornaro by Hans Makart (1840 –1884). © Belvedere, Vienna Opposite : Gaetano Donizetti (Opera Rara Archive) –1– Gaetano Donizetti CATERINA CORNARO Tragedia lirica in a prologue and two acts Libretto by Giacomo Sacchèro Caterina Cornaro............................................................Carmen Giannattasio Andrea Cornaro, Caterina’s father ..........................................Graeme Broadbent Gerardo, a young Frenchman ( in the prologue bethrothed to Caterina ).....................................................................Colin Lee Lusignano, King of Cyprus ..................................................................Troy Cook Mocenigo, a counsellor of the Dieci in Venice and Venetian ambassador in Cyprus .................................................................Vuyani Mlinde Strozzi, a leader of mercenary cut-throats ...............................................Loïc Félix A Knight of the King...........................................................................Loïc Félix Matilde, Caterina’s confidante .........................................................Sophie Bevan Knights, Ladies, Gondoliers, Populace, Soldiers, Cut-throat ruffians, Guards BBC Singers Renato Balsadonna, chorus director BBC Symphony Orchestra Stephen Bryant, leader David Parry, conductor -
Lucia Di Lammermoor
2 La Fenice prima dell’Opera 2011 2 2011 Fondazione Stagione 2011 Teatro La Fenice di Venezia Lirica e Balletto Gaetano Donizetti LuciaDi ammermoor l Lammermoor ucia di ucia di l onizetti d aetano aetano G FONDAZIONE TEATRO LA FENICE DI VENEZIA foto © Michele Crosera Visite a Teatro Eventi Gestione Bookshop e merchandising Teatro La Fenice Gestione marchio Teatro La Fenice® Caffetteria Pubblicità Sponsorizzazioni Fund raising Per informazioni: Fest srl, Fenice Servizi Teatrali San Marco 4387, 30124 Venezia Tel: +39 041 786672 - Fax: +39 041 786677 [email protected] - www.festfenice.com FONDAZIONE AMICI DELLA FENICE STAGIONE 2011 Incontro con l’opera lunedì 24 gennaio 2011 ore 18.00 ANGELA IDA DE BENEDICTIS Intolleranza 1960 martedì 22 febbraio 2011 ore 18.00 LUCA MOSCA La bohème martedì 22 marzo 2011 ore 18.00 GIORGIO PESTELLI Rigoletto lunedì 16 maggio 2011 ore 18.00 LORENZO ARRUGA Lucia di Lammermoor venerdì 17 giugno 2011 ore 18.00 GIORGIO PESTELLI Das Rheingold martedì 5 luglio 2011 ore 18.00 GIANNI GARRERA Sogno di una notte di mezza estate mercoledì 31 agosto 2011 ore 18.00 PAOLO COSSATO Il barbiere di Siviglia martedì 13 settembre 2011 ore 18.00 GIOVANNI BIETTI Don Giovanni martedì 11 ottobre 2011 ore 18.00 GIORGIO PESTELLI Clavicembalo francese a due manuali copia dello strumento di Goermans-Taskin, costruito attorno Le nozze di Figaro alla metà del XVIII secolo (originale presso la Russell lunedì 24 ottobre 2011 ore 18.00 Collection di Edimburgo). MICHELE DALL’ONGARO Opera del M° cembalaro Luca Vismara di Seregno Acis and Galatea (MI); ultimato nel gennaio 1998. -
"Casta Diva" from Bellini's
“Casta Diva” from Bellini's “Norma”--Rosa Ponselle; accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti (December 31, 1928 and January 30, 1929) Added to the National Registry: 2007 Essay by Judy Tsou (guest post)* Rosa Ponselle “Casta Diva” is the most famous aria of Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” (1831). It is sung by the title character, a Druidess or priestess of the Gauls, in the first act. The opera takes place in Gaul between 100 and 50 BCE when the Romans were occupiers. The Gauls want Norma to declare war on the Romans, who have been oppressing them. Norma is hesitant to do so because she is secretly in love with Pollione, the Roman proconsul, and with whom she has borne two children. She assuages the people’s anger and convinces them that this is not the right time to revolt. She asserts that the Romans will eventually fall by their own doing, and the Gauls do not need to rise up now. It is at this point that Norma sings “Casta Diva,” a prayer to the moon goddess for peace, and eventually, conquering the Romans. When things between her and Pollione go sour, Norma tries to kill their children but ultimately cannot bring herself to do so. Eventually, she confesses her relationship with Pollione and sacrifices herself on the funeral pyre of her lover. “Norma” was the first of two operas commissioned in 1830 for which Bellini was paid an unprecedented 12,000 lire. “Norma” premiered on December 26, 1831 at La Scala, and the second opera, “Beatrice di Tenda,” premiered in 1833, but in Venice (La Fenice). -
15 FINAL VDL II De Simone-Maccavino APPENDICE E
PAOLA DE SIMONE – NICOLÒ MACCAVINO APPENDICE I I titoli della Collezione Guillaume in trascrizione diplomatica dall’elenco allega- to nel Registro d’inventario della Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella - Esercizio finanziario 1895-1896 Tabella n. 4* Figurini di Opere Figurini di Balli A A Astuccio d’oro Assedio di Leyda Adelia Alfredo Albina di Lerida Azurina Alzira Appuntamento Adolfo di Warbel Amore e Psiche Assedio di Leyda [Ballo] Anacreonte Aroldo Alcidoro [Alcindoro] Anna Bolena Astuzie amorose Alceste Alloggio militare Aida Amore e mistero Arabi nelle Gallie Ariella Attila Adoratori del sole Antonio Foscarini Africana Alfonso d’Aragona [Il ritorno di Alfonso Abecerraghi e Zegrindi d’Aragona, Ballo] Alina Amazilek Amalia Candiano Armida e Rinaldo Angelica Veniero Assedio di Negroponte Alchimista Assedio di Corinto Amore alla prova B B Batilde di Turenna Batilde Wolman Betly Bassora Briganti Benvenuto Cellini Birraio di Preston Batilde di Turenna [opera] Bosco di Dafne Bonaventura Belisario Bianchi e ne[g]ri * I titoli evidenziati in grassetto risultano nell’elenco registrato all’acquisto ma non in Collezione. 276 I FIGURINI DELLA COLLEZIONE CARLO GUILLAUME Battaglia di Nav.[arin]o Bella fanciulla di Gand Ballo in maschera I bucanieri Bianca Turenga Boccaccio Buondelmonte Battaglia di Legnano Bianca Orsini Bravo C C Colonnello Carlo Himmerich Conte di Chalais Il cittadino e la statua Contrabbandieri Cristina di Svezia Coscritto Carlo di Roverestein [sic] Conte di Rossiglione Castore e Polluce Caterina di Blum Capra Cenerentola Cacciatore nero Caterina di Guisa Camelia Ciarlatani Coppa de’ Fidanzati Corradino Cadet barbiere Caterina Howard Corazziere di Brest Cantante Collegiali in vacanza Chiara di Rosemberg Coscritto Celinda Caccia di Enrico IV Costanza d’Aragona Corte di amore Cantata nozze Francesco 2° Caterina Cornaro Corsaro Candiano C.[on]te di Marsico Claudina Corrado d’Altamura Curioso accidente Carlo Gonzaga Coraggio di una donna Chi dura vince Camelia Corsaro Cid Caterina Cornaro C.[on]te di S. -
Rethinking Operatic Masculinity: Nicola Tacchinardi's Aria Substitutions and the Heroic Archetype in Early Nineteenth-Century
Cambridge Opera Journal, 32,1,1–26 © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. doi:10.1017/S0954586720000099 Rethinking Operatic Masculinity: Nicola Tacchinardi’s Aria Substitutions and the Heroic Archetype in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy PARKORN WANGPAIBOONKIT* Abstract: This article looks at representations of masculinity in Italian operatic performance in the 1820s and 1830s, with a particular focus on the ways in which male characters were transformed through the practice of aria and scene substitutions. Upon his retirement in 1833, the tenor Nicola Tacchinardi chastised musico performers – women who sang male roles – for their unconvincing portrayal of operatic heroes. Rather than complain about their high-lying voices, he chose to criticise these women’s feminine appearance and idiosyncratic stage behaviours as unmasculine. Tacchinardi’s criteria for gender performance, then, sidestepped embodied vocality and centred on performer appearance and behaviour in specific narrative situations. My study explores how Tacchinardi and his contemporaries employed aria substitution in heroic roles as a means for plot substitution, forgoing arias of dramatic stasis for dynamic scenes that showcase decisive action and augmented narrative significance. In this pre-Duprez milieu, before the onset of predetermined physiology in operatic discourse, male singers across the 1820s achieved an explicitly masculine self- definition not through voice, but as masters of textual control. Aria substitutions in the operas La Sacerdotessa d’Irminsul, La donna del lago and Norma demonstrate how singers established the compo- nents of masculine-heroic conventions through sensitive consideration of dramaturgy. -
Le Opere Europee 1800-1899 Michele Girardi (In Fieri, 20 Gennaio 2019)
Le opere europee 1800-1899 Michele Girardi (in fieri, 20 gennaio 2019) 1800 (2) Paris Les deux journées 16.I Nicholas Bouilly Luigi Cherubini Théâtre Feydeau melodramma, 3 Paris Le calife de Bagdad Charles Guillaume 16.IX Adrien Boïeldieu OC opera, 1 Etienne 1801 (1) Wien Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus Ludvig van 28.III Salvatore Viganò Hofburgtheater ballo eroico 2p Beethoven 1802 (2) Venezia Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, o 16.I T. San Moisé sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo Giuseppe Foppa Gaspare Spontini farsa giocosa per musica, 1 Venezia Werter e Carlotta Giulio Domenico primavera Vincenzo Pucitta T. San Moisé opera, 1 Camagna 1803 (1) 4.X Paris Anacréon, ou L’amour fugitif R. Mendouze Luigi Cherubini O opéra-ballet 1804 (3) Joseph Marie Paris La petite maison Armand Michel 12.V Gaspare Spontini OC (Feydeau) opéra-comique, 3 Dieulafoy e N. Gersin Dneprovskaja rušalka (L’ondina St Petersburg 17 Ferdinand Kauer Catterino Cavos Bol’šoj Kamenny T. del Dnepr) opera magico-buffa, 3 Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy e Paris Milton 12.XI Joseph Marie Gaspare Spontini OC (Favart) fait historique, 1 Armand Michel Dieulafo 1805 (2) Paris Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs 12.III Antoine Gabriel Jars Gaspare Spontini OC (Favart) comédie en prose, mêlée de chants, 1 Wien Fidelio Joseph von Ludvig van 20. I X Theater an der Wien opera, 3 (I vers.) Sonnleithner Beethoven 1806 (2) Paris Les deux aveugles de Tolède 28.I Benoît Marsollier Joseph Méhul OC opera, 1 Joseph von 29 Wien Fidelio Theater an der Wien opera, 3 (IIa vers.) Sonnleithner 2 1807 (3) Mosca Илья-Богатырь (Il’ja il prode) 12.I Ivan Krïlov Catterino Cavos Bol’šoj grande opera magico-buffa, 4 Paris Joseph 17.II Alexandre Duval Joseph Méhul OC drame en prose mêlé de chants, 3 Paris La Vestale 15.XII V. -
Pompei Pompei
EXTRAORDINARY NIGHts SINCE 500 B.C. MAY EXTRAORDINARY NIGHts SINCE 500 B.C. 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 Last day of Pompei POMPEI POMPEI FESTIVAL AUGUST SEPTEMBER FESTIVAL 4 Tosca 1 Giselle 5 La traviata 2 La Traviata After the great success of the first edition 6 Nabucco 3 Nabucco 7 Carmen Suite 4 Il lago dei Cigni of the Pompei Festival, with the Opera La 8 La Traviata 5 La Traviata Boheme, starring the world-famous tenor 9 Tosca 6 Tosca Vittorio Grigolo, and the ballet Carmen, 11 Giselle 8 Carmen Suite 12 La traviata 9 La Traviata by february 28th and after resonance the event is having on 13 Nabucco 10 Nabucco international televisions, the great Opera is 14 Il lago dei Cigni 11 Giselle 15 La Traviata 12 La Traviata back at Teatro Grande degli Scavi in Pompei 40% 16 Tosca 13 Tosca DISCOUNT NOW ONLINE for a new extraordinary and spectacular 18 Carmen Suite 14 Il lago dei Cigni BUY 19 La Traviata 15 Nabucco summer. www.ticketone.it 20 Nabucco 16 La Traviata In 2015, the Festival is going to present 21 Giselle 17 Tosca three popular operas - La Traviata, Tosca 22 La Traviata 18 Carmen Suite and Nabucco -, three ballets - Giselle, Swan 23 Tosca 19 La Traviata 25 Il lago dei Cigni 20 Nabucco Lake and Carmen Suite - a festival dedicated 26 La Traviata to China - with two Chinese operas, directed 27 Nabucco 28 Carmen Suite by by Zhang Yimou - and the three-act opera 29 La Traviata “The last Day of Pompeii” by Giovanni Pacini. -
LE MIE MEMORIE ARTISTICHE Giovanni Pacini
LE MIE MEMORIE ARTISTICHE Giovanni Pacini English translation: Adriaan van der Tang, October 2011 1 2 GIOVANNI PACINI: LE MIE MEMORIE ARTISTICHE PREFACE Pacini’s autobiography Le mie memorie artistiche has been published in several editions. For the present translation the original text has been used, consisting of 148 pages and published in 1865 by G.G. Guidi. In 1872 E. Sinimberghi in Rome published Le mie memorie artistiche di Giovanni Pacini, continuate dall’avvocato Filippo Cicconetti. The edition usually referred to was published in 1875 by Le Monnier in Florence under the title Le mie memorie artistiche: edite ed inedite, edited by Ferdinando Magnani. The first 127 pages contain the complete text of the original edition of 1865 – albeit with a different page numbering – extended with the section ‘inedite’ of 96 pages, containing notes Pacini made after publication of the 1865-edition, beginning with three ‘omissioni’. This 1875- edition covers the years as from 1864 and describes Pacini’s involvement with performances of some of his operas in several minor Italian theatres. His intensive supervision at the first performances in 1867 of Don Diego di Mendoza and Berta di Varnol was described as well, as were the executions of several of his cantatas, among which the cantata Pacini wrote for the unveiling of the Rossini- monument in Pesaro, his oratorios, masses and instrumental works. Furthermore he wrote about the countless initiatives he developed, such as the repatriation of Bellini’s remains to Catania and the erection of a monument in Arezzo in honour of the great poet Guido Monaco, much adored by him. -
Archivi Delle Donne, Vol. 2
pp I-VI tomo II.qxp:pp 1-6.qxd 12/03/12 16.33 Pagina 1 pp I-VI tomo II.qxp:pp 1-6.qxd 12/03/12 16.33 Pagina 2 pp I-VI tomo II.qxp:pp 1-6.qxd 12/03/12 16.33 Pagina 3 MEMORIA E SCRITTURA DELLE DONNE LOMBARDIA pp I-VI tomo II.qxp:pp 1-6.qxd 12/03/12 16.33 Pagina 4 Questo volume è stato realizzato con il contributo di Dipartimento di Scienze della Storia e della Documentazione Storica Università degli Studi di Milano Regione Lombardia Provincia di Milano Comune di Milano Fondazione Cariplo Istituto Lombardo di Storia Contemporanea Centro di Studi per la Storia dell’Editoria e del Giornalismo con il patrocinio di Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali Ministero per le Pari Opportunità Soprintendenza Archivistica per la Lombardia Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano Comitato di Milano pp I-VI tomo II.qxp:pp 1-6.qxd 12/03/12 16.33 Pagina 5 SUSSIDI ERUDITI 85 SERIE “MEMORIA E SCRITTURA DELLE DONNE” LOMBARDIA GLI ARCHIVI DELLE DONNE 1814-1859 REPERTORIO DELLE FONTI FEMMINILI NEGLI ARCHIVI MILANESI a cura di MARIA CANELLA ePAOLA ZOCCHI Prefazione di MARIA LUISA BETRI Tomo secondo ROMA 2012 EDIZIONI DI STORIA E LETTERATURA pp I-VI tomo II.qxp:pp 1-6.qxd 12/03/12 16.33 Pagina 6 Il progetto Gli archivi delle donne è promosso dal Dipartimento di Scienze della Storia e della Documentazione Storica dell’Università degli Studi di Milano Comitato scientifico: Maria Luisa Betri (coordinatrice) Letizia Arcangeli, Marina Benedetti, Marco Bologna, Elena Brambilla, Maria Canella, Elvira Cantarella, Luisa Dodi, Ada Gigli Marchetti, Daniela Maldini, Susanna Peyronel, Emma Scaramuzza, Paola Vismara, Paola Zocchi.